Here are the latest technology news, AI developments, and trending tools on November 17, 2025:
Tech News and AI Developments
- Google launched major NotebookLM updates, introducing Deep Research plus support for Sheets, Word docs, images, and more.
- Amazon Music and TikTok launched a new Share to TikTok feature that lets users post songs, playlists, and listening insights directly from Amazon Music.
- OpenAI announced group chats in ChatGPT, allowing users to collaborate with friends, family, or coworkers alongside ChatGPT in the same conversation.
- Perplexity announced new Comet Assistant upgrades that give users more transparency, control, and safer decision-making across its agentic AI tools.
- Microsoft announced BlueCodeAgent, a new blue-teaming system that uses automated red-teaming knowledge to detect malicious, biased, and vulnerable code in CodeGen AI.
Trending AI Tools
- MagicSchool – provides teachers with AI-powered tools to create lesson plans, assignments, assessments, and classroom resources in seconds.
- GPTZero – an AI detection tool that scans documents to identify how likely they were generated by large-language models, flagging passages based on metrics like perplexity and burstiness.
- Originality.ai – a content-verification tool that detects AI-generated writing, plagiarism, readability issues, and factual inconsistencies in submitted text.
- Grubby.ai – humanizes AI-generated text to make it sound more like real human writing, aiming to bypass detection tools.
- BlackBox – an AI-powered coding assistant that helps developers write, autocomplete, and debug code across 20+ programming languages inside a clean interface.
You may also want to check out some of our other recent updates.
Wanna know what’s trending online every day? Subscribe to Vavoza Insider to access the latest business and marketing insights, news, and trends daily with unmatched speed and conciseness! 🗞️
