Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened Build 2026 with a keynote centered on AI, unveiling the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local model development, Windows updates including native Coreutils and expande…
Microsoft launched Microsoft Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw, that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams to help employees with tasks such as calend…
OpenAI added voice interaction and image-upload capabilities to ChatGPT, and Meta previewed conversational AI characters for social feeds, according to a report by Casey Newton in Platformer. The upda…
Dozens of TikTok sellers are using AI-generated influencer personas to promote dropshipped products, including belt buckles and crochet bags, with identical items found on the fast-fashion site Shein …
SpaceX filed an S-1 for an initial public offering that could become the largest in history, with valuations reported between $1 trillion and $1.75 trillion and potential proceeds exceeding $50 billio…
AI-generated influencers posing as Black small business owners are being used to sell mass-produced products from fast-fashion site Shein at inflated prices on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The Ver…
Shift, a startup offering free professional home cleaning in New York, is recording every cleaning task via head-mounted cameras to train future robot agents. The company trades spotless apartments fo…
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman published re-created renders showing a redesigned Siri with a pill-shaped chat bubble emerging from the Dynamic Island, a new "Search or Ask" swipe-down gesture, and a s…
Adobe released the Firefly AI Assistant (beta), a conversational tool that performs multistep image- and design-editing tasks by invoking capabilities from Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe apps…
AI-generated writing is increasingly infiltrating everyday communication and professional spaces, from personal texts and work emails to literary magazines and opinion sections, according to an editor…
Apple will overhaul Siri and its AI tools in iOS 27, introducing a new chatbot-style Siri app, a persistent Dynamic Island interface, and a swipe-down "Search or Ask" feature, according to Bloomberg a…
Apple on May 28 previewed a major redesign of Siri and other AI features for iOS 27 ahead of its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, 2026, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is rolling out a redesigned interface that loads twice as fast and introduces a cleaner, task-aware prompt line across desktop and mobile. The update adds a "progressive disclosu…
Rivian's software chief Wassym Bensaid said the company will not offer Apple CarPlay, arguing that deep AI integration into vehicles will make the debate over smartphone mirroring "completely obsolete…
Google introduced Gemini Omni and its first model, Gemini Omni Flash, on May 19, 2026, enabling users to combine text, images, audio and video inputs to generate up to 10-second video clips with nativ…
A super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives has spent millions attacking New York Assemblymember Alex Bores in the NY-12 Democratic primary. Bores raised over $2.2 million last quarter…
Unionized tech workers at The New York Times filed grievances and an unfair labor practice charge alleging the company violated their collective bargaining agreement by deploying internal AI tools tha…
Kevin O'Leary's proposed Stratos hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah, has drawn local opposition after county commissioners approved the 40,000-acre, 9-gigawatt project. O'Leary accused c…
Parts of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were flagged as AI-generated by automated detection tools, according to analyses cited by The Verge. The Verge reports that the detector Pangra…
An analysis by Linch Zhang, posted on the forum LessWrong, found that portions of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* were between 40 percent and 100 percent likely written by AI, accordin…