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5 New Overlooked ChatGPT Features You Should Be Using But Aren’t

NVIDIA’s AI-fueled record quarter, Anthropic to start training on your chats, Google and Grok chipping away at OpenAI lead and more!

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August 28, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Think you know ChatGPT? Think again. Discover 5 new overlooked ChatGPT features that almost everyone missed after the GPT-5 launch. Level up your ChatGPT workflow with these hidden gems. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Why Amazon sat out the AI talent war, OpenAI unveils gpt-realtime and Taco Bell’s AI plans aren’t working out. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: NVIDIA’s AI-fueled record quarter, Anthropic to start training on your chats and Google and Grok chipping away at OpenAI lead. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Here are some key ChatGPT features you may have missed with the new updates. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about OpenAI adding parental controls, Google making its Vids editor free, Anthropic Claude caught helping with extortion and more. Check it here!

 5 New Overlooked ChatGPT Features You Should Be Using But Aren’t 👀

The GPT-5 rollout was messy.

Then, Google went AI ship crazy.

In between all of that, OpenAI released some powerhouse features inside ChatGPT that seemingly no one is paying attention to.

Join us as we uncover them and give you a leg up on everyone else.

Also on the pod today:

• Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT & GPTs 🗣
• Gmail and Google Calendar Auto Connectors 📥
• Project Folders vs. Custom GPT Organization 🗃️

It’ll be worth your 33 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – TheySaid is conversational AI surveys, BannsAI gives you banners and graphics using AI and without prompts, and WriteSonic launched a new tool that tracks website traffic from AI chatbots.

Amazon – A new internal document reveals why Amazon has sat out of the AI talent war

AI Tech – Amazon and Volkswagen have extended their cloud partnership to save costs with AI.

OpenAI – OpenAI is introducing gpt-realtime, a speech-to-speech model for API.

OpenAI – OpenAI is launching a $50 million People-First AI Fund to provide unrestricted grants to U.S. nonprofits and community-based organizations.

Business of AI – Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru plans are getting caught up in glitches and trolling.

AI Music - iMused.ai is launching the first ethical AI music platform.

ElevenLabs – ElevenLabs agents can now navigate IVR phone trees.

1. NVIDIA’s AI Boom Fuels Record Quarter — Blackwell Drives Surge 🚀

NVIDIA posted $46.7B in revenue for the quarter, up 56% year‑over‑year, with data‑center sales—powered largely by its new Blackwell chips—bringing in $41.1B and Blackwell alone accounting for $27B. Net income jumped to $26.4B, underscoring surging demand from AI firms for top‑tier GPUs and signalling continued heavy investment in AI infrastructure.

The company warned China sales remain constrained—no H20 shipments to China this quarter amid policy uncertainty—even as a controversial U.S. export-tax workaround briefly opened the door.

2. Anthropic Will Train on Your Chats Unless You Opt Out ⚠️️

Anthropic is changing course: starting now, consumer Claude users must choose by September 28 whether the company can train models on new chat and coding sessions and retain that data for up to five years, with instant training for anyone who clicks “Accept,” the company says.

According to The Verge, the policy applies to Claude Free, Pro, and Max (including Claude Code) but excludes commercial tiers and API usage like Claude for Work, Gov, Education, and third-party cloud integrations.

3. Google and Rivals Chip Away at ChatGPT’s Lead, Report Shows 🔨

According to a new report from Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s Gemini and three other Google products climbed into the top consumer generative-AI web apps while rivals like xAI’s Grok and Meta AI continue narrowing the gap with ChatGPT.

The monthly-usage data (drawn from Similarweb and Sensor Tower) shows Gemini closing in on ChatGPT on mobile and web, Grok surging after its standalone launch, and a growing slate of Chinese and niche creators breaking into top lists — signaling a more competitive, fragmented market.

4. NVIDIA May Bring Blackwell to China — If Washington Allows It 🇨🇳

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told investors there’s a “real possibility” the company could ship its next-gen Blackwell AI chips to China, but only if U.S. export rules — and a potential deal similar to the H20 license arrangement — are finalized, underscoring fresh geopolitical bargaining over cutting-edge chips.

Huang said China represents roughly a $50 billion opportunity this year and he expects the market to grow about 50% next year, meaning restricted access could materially slow Chinese AI progress while boosting demand for modified, lower-performance exports.

5. Young Workers Hit as AI Replaces Entry-Level Roles 🚶

A new working paper from Stanford economists finds that generative AI has driven a sharp decline in early-career employment—entry-level roles in AI-exposed fields fell about 13% since 2022, with software engineering and customer service down roughly 20%—while older workers' employment in those same fields rose.

According to the study using ADP payroll data, the shift reflects LLMs taking over tasks that overlap with recent graduates’ book learning, while experienced employees hold value through tacit “soft” skills less replicable by AI.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

That's because OpenAI buried like a dozen killer features during this month's GPT-5's rocky launch and then Google ate their lunch right after with a straight up cornucopia of releases that made everyone go…. GPT-5 who?!

Yet somehow these ChatGPT gems have STILL gone unnoticed.

Like…. How?

New capabilities that solve actual workflow problems are sitting there unused like forgotten apps on your phone that you got giddy about when you downloaded them.

We're talking hidden QuizGPT flashcards that slap harder than Will Smith. Personality modes that fix ChatGPT's annoying yes-man problem that's been driving everyone nuts.

Gmail integration that FINALLY works instantly instead of making you wait twelve painful minutes. Yasssss.

These ain't minor updates, shorties.

They're workflow game-changers that even power users completely missed because the timing was absolutely terrible.

But you've been missing them.

So on today's show, we're exposing five buried ChatGPT features that'll save you hours weekly while your competitors stay distracted by launch drama.

Oh, and we snuck in even more goodies when/if you share this post.

Let's mine these productivity gems, y'all.

1 – Project Custom Instructions Finally Work 🎯

Custom instructions were hot garbage until three weeks ago.

Get this - they applied to literally every conversation you ever had.

Client work got the same tone as weekend meal planning. Professional emails used identical formatting as personal brainstorming sessions.

Complete nightmare for anyone juggling multiple contexts.

Now, each folder gets separate rules AND isolated memory that never contaminates other workspaces. 

Your work project demands citations and bullet points. Personal stuff stays conversational and fun.Client folders follow their specific brand voice without bleeding into your grocery list chats.

Most people don't even know this exists because OpenAI barely whispered about it in their change log.

Try This:

Create three new projects right now with names that match how you actually use AI - work, personal, clients. Click the gear icon before any chats and set memory to "project only" so contexts never mix. 

Write instructions like "Always cite sources, 200 words max, clear next steps" for work and "Be conversational, help me think" for personal projects. This five-second setup saves explaining context every single time.

2 – Gmail Autopilot Crushes Inbox Anxiety 📧

Email overwhelm just got demolished without the endless inbox boolean searches. 

The Gmail connector existed for months but was stuck in that painfully slow deep research mode that made you want to throw your laptop.

Need inbox priorities? Wait forever.

Want those confusing twenty-person email threads explained? Another brutal deep research delay that killed your momentum.

Connect once and ChatGPT immediately sorts urgent emails from spam, drafts intelligent replies, and translates those group conversations that make absolutely zero sense.

Here's what's crazy about this update.

If you train it a bit, it understands email importance based on actual context, not just desperate subject line keywords like "URGENT!!!"

Startup pitches automatically get filtered as noise. Client urgency gets flagged immediately.

Meeting requests get proper priority ranking instead of fighting for attention with newsletter garbage.

Your inbox anxiety disappears because you're finally seeing what actually demands your brain space.

Try This:

Connect your Gmail in ChatGPT settings under "Data controls" right now. Ask "Which emails from the past 48 hours need my immediate response and why?" You'll get a smart priority list instead of chronological chaos.

Request draft replies for the top three, add personal touches, and paste into Gmail - thirty minutes of inbox anxiety becomes three minutes of focused action.

3 – Voice Mode in GPTs Unlock Different Thinkings 🧠

Talking to specialized AI completely changes how ideas flow through your brain.

Voice brainstorming with your marketing assistant feels totally different than typing the same boring questions.

Ideas surface faster. Strategic connections happen naturally.

Real-time conversation reveals insights that stay buried in text exchanges.

But hold up - there's a massive gotcha waiting to wreck your day.

Voice mode can't access uploaded files in GPTs yet, and it doesn't know this limitation exists. So be careful… voice mode in custom GPTs will hallucinate HARD if you’re asking it about uploaded files in your GPT’s memory. 

(Obviously works fine in text-only mode though.) 

Still, being able to use Advanced Voice Mode in custom GPTs is a commute game changer for busy execs. 

Try This:

Pick your knowledge-based custom GPT - marketing strategist, coding assistant, whatever you use most.

 Start a voice conversation about your biggest current challenge and actually speak your messy thoughts instead of typing perfectly structured sentences. 

Let it flow naturally for ten minutes without worrying about sounding professional - verbal brainstorming unlocks completely different neural pathways than typing.

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