Opera's AI Browser: The Future of Web?

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Buckle up, tech nerds, because the internet’s getting a glow-up that makes your old dial-up modem look like a cave painting. Opera’s Neon is strutting in with AI so bossy it’ll shop, code, and maybe even write your Tinder bio while you’re still figuring out how to close 47 open tabs. But hold your wallet—this shiny new browser buddy comes with a price tag as mysterious as a Wi-Fi signal in the woods. Meanwhile, Google Photos is blowing out 10 candles and gifting us AI editing tools to turn your soggy beach pics into Instagram-worthy sunsets.

In this week’s tech carnival:

• 🦸‍♂️ Opera Neon’s AI browser turns your clicks into commands

• 📸 Google Photos democratizes Pixel’s AI magic for all

• 🤖 Microsoft’s AI agents are coding, researching

• 🌍 Odyssey’s spatial AI wants to reinvent storytelling

• 🔍 + 4 handpicked tools and papers for the nerds among us

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 Browser Wars Get Brainy: Opera's AI Revolution

Opera just crash-landed into the AI browser arena with "Neon," a slick new offering that's less about visiting websites and more about bossing them around. This invite-only digital assistant comes with three magical buttons: "Chat" (for when you're feeling lonely while shopping), "Do" (for when clicking things yourself feels too 2024), and "Make" (for creating websites while you nap).

The browser can apparently shop, code, and create while you're offline doing whatever humans still do in 2025. It'll cost you though—Opera's keeping mum on pricing but confirms it won't be free.

Google and The Browser Company are scrambling to catch up, but Opera's already strutting around with its AI browser like it invented the internet.

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Pixel Magic Now Available to the Masses

Google Photos turns 10 and isn't being stingy with the birthday gifts. The app's revamped AI editor is bringing previously Pixel-exclusive features to the unwashed masses of regular Android and iOS users.

The update lets you tap on objects to move them around photos, blur backgrounds, or completely "reimagine" elements with text prompts. Want to transform your gray, depressing vacation shots into sun-drenched paradise memories? Now you can lie to your friends and family with professional-grade AI!

After a decade of service and 9 trillion photos stored, Google is finally democratizing its best photo editing tricks. Though they're still making us pay for storage, because some birthday traditions (like disappointing your guests) must be preserved.

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AI Agents Take Over Microsoft Build

Microsoft has unveiled a menagerie of AI agents at Build 2025, essentially teaching software to do your job while you watch uncomfortably from the sidelines. The star of the show is GitHub Copilot, now promoted from "helpful suggestion-maker" to "full coding agent" that can autonomously fix bugs and add features while you contemplate your career choices.

The company is pushing what they're calling an "open agentic web" - corporate-speak for "AI bots that talk to other AI bots so humans don't have to bother." They've also launched NLWeb, allowing websites to embed conversational AI interfaces with minimal coding, and Microsoft Discovery, an AI research platform that's already finding eco-friendly coolants while scientists were on coffee breaks.

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Spatial Storytelling Without Game Engines

Odyssey has unveiled an AI model that generates interactive 3D environments you can navigate in real-time. Forget static videos—this tech streams new frames every 40 milliseconds as you explore, no game engine required.

While currently blurry and spatially inconsistent (walk forward long enough and suddenly you're in Narnia), the potential is massive. The company envisions entertainment, education, and advertising evolving into interactive experiences where stories can be "generated and explored on demand."

Unlike other AI labs focused on world modeling, Odyssey captures real landscapes with 360-degree backpack cameras. At $1-2 per "user-hour" on Nvidia H100 clusters, it's not cheap—but then again, neither is revolution.

Co-founded by self-driving pioneers and with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull on the board, Odyssey seems determined to collaborate with creatives rather than replace them. We'll see.

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