🧲 ChatGPT Now Remembers You (RIP Privacy)

Happy Tuesday. AI just crossed the creepy/useful line: ChatGPT now remembers you (like an ex who won’t delete the photos), Apple’s training its LLM in a black site, and Google's shoving AI into your lock screen like a clingy ex who knows your schedule better than you do

Also inside: AI tools to vaporize your to-do list, market rollercoasters, and 5 facts to weaponize at happy hour.

Merge into the smartest 3-minute read of your week — no fluff, just fire.

What’s Merging Today:
• ChatGPT’s memory – useful or unsettling? 🧠
• Apple’s “Ajax” LLM enters stealth mode 🍏
• Markets – turbulence continues 💥
• Google’s lock screen gets an AI glow-up 📱
• 5 AI tools to replace your intern 🛠️

🤯 MERGE MINDBLOWERS

5 facts to casually drop in meetings (then walk out like a legend):

1. Your iPhone has more power than NASA’s 1969 tech — the entire Apollo program could’ve run on your meme machine.

2. ChatGPT invented a fake Supreme Court case — lawyers cited it, got fined, and the AI? Kept typing like nothing happened.

3. Google was almost named “Backrub” — the dystopia where we say “Just Backrub it” was narrowly avoided.

4. Microsoft Office has made $800B+ — making it history’s most profitable product (and your worst PowerPoint memories priceless).

5. Amazon patented “anticipatory shipping” — where they mail you stuff before you order it. Big Brother meets Big Prime.

📡 SIGNAL, NOT NOISE

ChatGPT Now Remembers You

OpenAI’s memory feature means ChatGPT remembers:

• Your writing tics (emoji addiction included)

• Personal trivia (job, dog’s name, that weird cat story)

• Preferences (tone, formats, which answers you trash)

Delete anytime — but let’s be real, you’ll keep it for the convenience.

💡 Takeaway: Your AI assistant just evolved from goldfish to elephant. Smarter answers, eerier small talk.

🤖 AI ON THE MOVE

Apple’s Ajax: The Silent AI Assassin

While OpenAI hosts demos and Google drops blog posts, Apple is building its AI empire behind closed doors — and calling it Ajax. First reported last year, Apple has now internally ramped up Ajax’s capabilities and is already baking it into iOS 18, macOS 15, and a revamped Siri. All signs point to a major reveal at WWDC in June.

🧠 What’s brewing in Cupertino:

• Ajax LLM → Apple’s internal LLM rivaling Gemini and GPT. Trained on billions of tokens and optimized for on-device speed and privacy.

• Siri 2.0 → Not just voice commands. We’re talking real contextual understanding, proactive suggestions, and maybe… finally useful.

• AI across apps → Mail summaries, Calendar smart suggestions, Spotlight search with brains, and even custom emoji generation (because, priorities).

• Apple’s App Store GPT? → Rumors suggest Apple may launch an “App Store for AI models,” allowing devs to plug into their own LLMs across Apple’s OS.

💡 Takeaway: Apple doesn’t do hype. It does “Oh, this has been here all along” — then changes everything.

Bonus: All on-device - meaning your secrets stay secret (unless Siri gossips)

🧰 MERGE TOOLS

New tools to boost productivity, creativity, and calendar credibility:

• WriterZen – SEO strategy so slick, Google will blush

• Magical – Automate Chrome like a keyboard wizard

• AiSDR – An AI sales rep who actually works

• LingoSync – Dub videos without the Duolingo shame

• TalkNotes – Turn rambles into actionable genius

🛠️ Use these or get outworked by someone who does.

🧨 MERGE MARKETS

*Stock data as of market close on April 14, 2025. Crypto data as of 6:00 PM ET.

📈 Bright Spots:
MP Materials launched into orbit after bullish analyst notes and strong EV metals demand. +21.65% — it’s giving lithium liftoff.

📉 Rough Ride:
MicroAlgo face-planted nearly 15% on no major news — which somehow makes it worse. AI predicted the dip.. then caused it.

🔮 Outlook:
Markets shrugged off recent volatility, powered by Big Tech resilience and Fed optimism. But with AI gains soaring and bond yields dipping, it feels like we’re in the calm before the… earnings storm.

🗞️ WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• 📱 Android AI Lock Screen Features Drop – Google’s testing AI-generated summaries/reminders before you unlock. (Who has time to open their phone anymore?)

• 🎬 Runway’s AI Adds Multi-Cam Edits – Just prompt it. No film degree required.

• 🖼️ Midjourney 6 in Testing – Sharper faces, animation, fewer haunting eyes.

• 📦 Amazon’s Adds AI to Product Titles – Spicy, chaotic, occasionally helpful.

• 🗣️ Grok 2 Goes Multilingual – Fluent in 25+ languages, sass still intact.

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