ChatGPT’s Canvas feature allows users to edit the chatbot’s responses on the app rather than copying and pasting them to a separate document. 

However, when Canvas launched in early October for its paid tiers, it didn’t let people see what changes GPT-4o made to its responses. OpenAI’s latest update to the feature corrects that. 

The show changes button will show the most recent changes to either the generated text or code on Canvas. It will highlight added information in green and deleted sections in red. 

Tracking changes has always been a good feature of any editing platform; Google Docs and Word documents offer a toggle for users to check what’s been changed. But OpenAI had been planning to roll out updates to Canvas slowly as ChatGPT subscribers get used to it. 

Canvas already offers familiar features like comments, where users can add suggestions or give more instructions for the AI model to follow when editing responses. 

Canvas is still only available on the web version of ChatGPT for ChatGPT Plus, Teams, Enterprise and Edu users. Mac app users and anyone downloading the recently released Windows version of ChatGPT will have to wait until Canvas is rolled out to these standalone apps. 

Currently, people can access Canvas on the regular ChatGPT window rather than in any custom GPTs. 

A much requested feature

OpenAI’s developer X account acknowledged that developer customers have requested a track or show change feature since Canvas launched. 

But while many developers said this was a step in the right direction, Canvas still doesn’t immediately connect to code repositories like GitHub or let users visually see how the edited code works. 

This is one area where ChatGPT competitor Claude from Anthropic and its Artifacts feature excels. Artifacts function much like Canvas; users can begin a prompt on the Claude chat interface. 

When users launch Artifacts, a dedicated window opens where they can manipulate the model’s responses. Artifacts let users replicate websites using the code Claude just generated and edited, so developers can see not only which lines of code have changed but also whether it worked. Artifacts are now available to all Claude users, including those on mobile devices. 

Canvas and Artifacts represent what could be the next phase in the evolution of AI chat platforms and assistants. The Interface War could see other platforms begin to explore how to keep users in the platform instead of opening other dedicated windows for different tasks. 

Along with giving New York Comic Con attendees a chance to see Lazarus’ first episode, Adult Swim revealed today that Koichi Yamadera and Megumi Hayashibara — the Japanese actors who voiced Cowboy Bebop’s Spike Spiegel and Faye Valentine — are part of the show’s cast. Yamadera and Hayashibara are joined by Mamoru Miyano (Death Note), Maaya Uchida (Chainsaw Man), Yuma Uchida (Jujutsu Kaisen), Makoto Furukawa (Kaiju No. 8), Manaka Iwami (Phantom of the Idol), and Akio Otsuka (Spy x Family).

Adult Swim also posted a short clip from Lazarus introducing Axel Gilberto (Miyano) a young fugitive who’s knack for breaking out of prison and evading police makes him the perfect candidate to join team Lazarus. With the entire world plunged into panic about a popular wonder drug that’s about to start killing people, Axel and Lazarus’ other operatives are the only people who might be able to find a solution.

The clip does’t really clue you into just what Axel will bring to the team when Lazarus premieres some time in 2025, but it does show off how useful his parkour skills will be as he sets out to save the world.

Back in May 2022, Western Digital unveiled its 22TB CMR and 26TB UltraSMR hard disk drives, the latter of which achieved its high capacity through the use of large block encoding and an advanced error correction algorithm to increase track-per-inch (TPI) density.

The 26TB Ultrastar DC HC670 UltraSMR HDD is a 3.5-inch hard drive featuring a SATA or SAS interface with a transfer rate of up to 261MB/s. It operates at 7200 RPM using SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) technology and includes a 512MB cache for improved performance. Built with Western Digital’s EAMR, TSA, and HelioSeal technologies, it’s optimized for sequential write applications and is ideal for use in data centers.

GeForce NOW is one of several subscription services that revolve around gaming that you can throw your money at every month, and it’s because NVIDIA adds games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage that make that worth doing. This week is sort of a big one for the service as there are two or three big games that are being added. In total, there are ten new games joining the lineup, some of them new, some of them not.

Although if you really think about it, any game is new if it’s new to you, right? Whether you’re a new subscriber or you’ve been around a while, there’s nothing quite like picking up a new game and falling in love with it. You can do just that this week with a multitude of options across a handful of genres. Do you like mech games? Good news. GeForce NOW has a new mech game for you to play in the cloud this week.

Are action-adventure titles more your speed? Well, you have options there too. Whatever you like when it comes to games, GeForce NOW has something for you.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is now playable via GeForce NOW

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is probably one of the best games in the franchise in a while. Taking some of the elements of its recent predecessors and mixing them with the gameplay mechanics from the beloved older titles in the franchise. It’s also considerably shorter than say, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. So if you want a more condensed experience with an AC game, you should definitely give Mirage a shot.

And now you can do that more easily than ever because you can stream it in the cloud on GeForce NOW. This is for the Steam version of the game, as it was already available to stream if you owned it on Ubisoft Connect. So the good thing about this week’s addition of Mirage is that Steam loyalists who prefer not to stray from Gabe Newel’s digital game haven can play the game in the cloud now too.

Alongside Assassin’s Creed Mirage, GeForce NOW subscribers can also now stream Neva, MechWarrior 5: Clans, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, Artisan TD, ASKA, Dungeon Tycoon, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, and Star Truck.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be streamable on October 31

Dragon Age fans can look forward to streaming the latest game in the series when it launches later this month. It officially releases on October 31 so there are only a couple more weeks before you can dive into it.

If you haven’t already pre-ordered the game, NVIDIA is offering a pretty sweet deal for members. If you subscribe to GeForce NOW’s Ultimate membership for a six-month subscription, you’ll be given a free copy of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Now, a six-month Ultimate membership will set you back $99.99. That being said, the standard version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard will cost you $70. So another $30 and you’ll get six months of the best option GeForce NOW offers, and you get the game for free.

This is an even better value for anyone who is planning to pick up the Deluxe Edition or above.

Day trips to the Moon, living on Mars, space elevators… when it comes to the future of space exploration, some possibilities might be closer than we think!

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