• Everyday AI
  • Posts
  • ChatGPT’s New Study Mode: How non-students can take advantage

ChatGPT’s New Study Mode: How non-students can take advantage

ChatGPT’s $1 deal with U.S. federal agencies, NVIDIA denies AI chip kill switch rumors, Google’s AI coding agent Jules goes live and more!

Author

Everyday AI
August 06, 2025

Outsmart The Future

Today in Everyday AI
6 minute read

🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: ChatGPT’s new Study Mode isn’t just for students. Discover how business leaders can use AI study tools for knowledge retention, personalized learning, and workplace productivity. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Google says AI search isn’t affecting website traffic, OpenAI makes debut on AWS and Anthropic Claude gets automated security reviews. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: ChatGPT’s $1 deal with U.S. federal agencies, NVIDIA denies AI chip kill switch rumors and Google’s AI coding agent Jules goes live. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: OpenAI’s new o3 and o4 models are powerful. But does that make them the best? Here’s everything you need to know. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about OpenAI unveiling new open-weight models, U.S. eyeing semiconductor tariffs, Google DeepMind launching Genie 3 and more. Check it here!

 ChatGPT’s New Study Mode: How non-students can take advantage 💡

Here's a lil secret: ChatGPT's newly released study mode isn't just for students.

Actually.... we think everyday professionals have a lot more to gain from OpenAI's new Study mode.

We'll break down how to use it, real use-cases and 3 tips to start making knowledge stick.

Also on the pod today:

• Study Mode vs. Standard ChatGPT Responses 🥊
• Custom Instructions and Prompt Engineering 💬
• Step-by-Step Learning with Quiz Features 🧑‍🏫️

It’ll be worth your 49 minutes:

Listen on our site:

Click to listen

Subscribe and listen on your favorite podcast platform

Listen on:

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

New AI Tool Spotlight – Iki is a second brain AI for your team, Embra is an AI operating system that simplifies your tech stack, and Reworkd lets you scrape thousands of websites with AI.

Google – Google claims its AI search features aren’t tanking website traffic despite recent reports.

Google has also committed $1 billion for AI training at U.S. universities.

OpenAI – OpenAI has made its debut on Amazon’s web cloud service with its new open-weight GPT-OSS models.

Anthropic – Claude has added automated security reviews in Claude Code.

Microsoft – Microsoft Windows has added OpenAI’s new open-weight models.

Future of Work - A Goldman economist says AI is already impacting the labor market, starting with young tech workers.

AI in Government – The Swedish prime minister has come under fire for admitting he regularly consults AI tools for his role.

1. OpenAI Scores Big with $1 ChatGPT Deal for U.S. Federal Agencies 🚀

OpenAI has struck an agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration to offer ChatGPT Enterprise to federal agencies for just $1 each over the next year, aiming to outpace rivals like Anthropic and Google in government AI adoption. This move follows the GSA’s recent approval of top AI vendors on its streamlined Multiple Award Schedule, simplifying access for federal offices eager to integrate AI tools.

Beyond the bargain price, OpenAI is sweetening the deal with two months of unlimited access to advanced models and specialized training, addressing key concerns around data security and user readiness.

2. NVIDIA Pushes Back Against AI Chip Kill Switch Rumors 🧑‍🏫️

NVIDIA’s chief security officer David Reber Jr. has firmly denied claims that the company’s GPUs include secret kill switches or backdoors, directly addressing growing pressure from US lawmakers seeking tighter controls on AI chips. This comes as bipartisan US legislation proposes tracking and remote-disable features amid concerns over chip security and international transport.

NVIDIA aims to maintain its role as a leading AI chip supplier to China, despite export restrictions and rising competition from Chinese firms like Huawei.

3. Google’s AI Coding Agent Jules Exits Beta with New Pricing and Features 🤖

Google has officially launched its AI-powered coding assistant Jules out of beta, just over two months after its debut preview in May, signaling growing confidence in its stability and usefulness. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules runs asynchronously on Google Cloud VMs, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks and return hours later to completed work—unlike other synchronous coding tools.

The rollout introduces structured pricing tiers, including a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks, aiming to match real-world usage patterns gathered during beta testing.

4. OpenAI Hints at GPT-5 Reveal This Thursday 🇪🇺

OpenAI has dropped a clear hint that GPT-5 is about to make its debut, teasing a livestream event scheduled for Thursday at 10 AM PT with a clever “LIVE5TREAM” clue. CEO Sam Altman and the company’s head of applied research have both fueled excitement by sharing early glimpses and expressing eagerness for public feedback.

This follows earlier reports that Microsoft is preparing infrastructure for the new model, signaling serious backing for widespread adoption.

5. Cohere Launches North to Crack Data Privacy in Enterprise AI ⚖️

Canadian AI firm Cohere has unveiled North, a new AI agent platform designed for private deployment on an organization’s own infrastructure, addressing growing concerns over data security in AI adoption. Unlike typical cloud-based solutions, North can run on-premises, hybrid clouds, or even air-gapped environments, ensuring sensitive enterprise and customer data never leaves the firewall.

With features like chat, search, and automated asset creation powered by Cohere’s proprietary models, North aims to boost productivity while meeting strict compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC-2.

6. AWS Faces Heat Over AI Usage Caps on Anthropic Models 🤔

AWS is under scrutiny after reports from The Information reveal customers hitting frustrating rate limits using Anthropic’s AI models via AWS Bedrock, with some calling the caps “arbitrary.”

While some users complain of frequent error messages, AWS insists these limits are designed to ensure fair access, not due to server shortages. This controversy arrives amid Amazon’s massive $8 billion investment in Anthropic and its aggressive $26 billion AI spending plan for 2024-25.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

You spent six hours last month reviewing ChatGPT-generated competitor analysis.

Remember their exact positioning now?

Prolly not. Lolz.

OpenAI's new Study Mode will change that. And here's the juiciest part of ChatGPT's newest mode: it might be busy professionals who benefit most from the Study Mode that's targeted for students.

Here's why.

AI's upside has tremendous downsides. The never-ending flow and instant onslaught of high-quality information has made important info easy transactional and easy to forget.

Enter: Study Mode.

(Yes, even you, non-student.)

So on today's Everyday AI show, we dished what you need to know. So make sure to go watch/read/listen.

We cover:

What ChatGPT's Study Mode is.

Real business use-cases and a live demo.

And the REAL reason why it'll be busy professionals who benefit from this new mode more than the students it's technically built for.

Ready to study?

Let's get it shorties.

1 – Active Recall Beats Information Hoarding 💪

Your team consumes competitor intelligence but chokes when board meetings demand strategic explanations.

That's because recognition feels like understanding, but active recall separates executives who contribute insights from those who nod along helplessly.

Study Mode automatically creates quizzes after every explanation instead of just dumping answers. It analyzes your response patterns and builds personalized learning paths around your exact weaknesses.

Market analysts can finally retain SWOT analysis insights instead of re-reading the same reports before every strategy meeting. Sales reps stop forgetting product specifications during critical client presentations.

Try This:

Upload your most critical competitor analysis to Study Mode.

Request comprehensive quizzes on their positioning and pricing strategy until you achieve perfect accuracy.

Document which concepts you consistently miss. Those gaps are creating blind spots in your competitive strategy.

2 – Model Stacking Creates Unfair Advantages 🚀 

Most executives use whichever AI model loads fastest and miss quality differences that separate surface answers from strategic expertise.

The O3 reasoning model delivers exponentially better learning frameworks with sophisticated follow-up questions that build genuine understanding instead of temporary familiarity.

Stack this with Deep Research mode for maximum impact. Curate only authoritative sources like McKinsey reports, then switch to O3-powered Study Mode while preserving conversation context.

Your competition gets generic responses from basic models using random training data.

You're building expertise from reasoning models using hand-selected industry intelligence.

Try This:

Choose your team's biggest strategic knowledge gap this quarter.

Run Deep Research mode using only authoritative industry sources.

Switch to Study Mode with the O3 model and request learning modules based on that curated research. Track retention after thirty days versus usual training methods.

3 – Visual Intelligence Scales Institutional Memory ⚡

The breakthrough business applications transform how companies retain critical knowledge instead of constantly re-googling strategic concepts.

Upload screenshots from brainstorming sessions you joined late. Photos of strategy whiteboards from meetings you half-understood. Meeting notes from presentations where you zoned out during technical sections.

Study Mode connects information across all uploaded materials and reveals strategic patterns you miss when consuming documents individually.

New hires get quizzed on company values until they can explain strategic applications in real scenarios instead of memorizing corporate speak. Teams stop losing institutional knowledge when key people leave.

Try This:

Collect every strategic visual from your last planning session: whiteboard photos, screenshots, brainstorming outputs.

Upload everything to one Study Mode conversation and request comprehensive learning modules.

Track decision-making speed improvements over sixty days compared to frantically searching old files when strategic questions arise. The future of communications roles in the age of AI, and how you can make AI more of a companion than a competitor.

Reply

or to participate.