Microsoft Moves Mico Out of Copilot Voice
Microsoft is moving Mico, the animated character in Copilot Voice, to its Learn Live tutoring experience, with the change starting in August 2026 and rolling out in waves. Copilot Voice will remain av…
Microsoft is moving Mico, the animated character in Copilot Voice, to its Learn Live tutoring experience, with the change starting in August 2026 and rolling out in waves. Copilot Voice will remain av…
Flock Safety, which operates over 120,000 automatic license plate reader cameras across 49 states, is rolling out updates that require Audit Assistance and case codes for all searches after reports of…
Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch denied claims that the studio replaced writers with AI on the upcoming game Rideshare "Stimulator," but admitted the game incorporates AI and will update its Steam …
Matic rolled out Matic Cues on August 13, adding opt-in voice and gesture controls to its robot vacuum through a software update, allowing owners to point at a mess and say 'clean this,' direct the ro…
Google unveiled the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold at its Made by Google event on August 12, with the Pro starting at $1,099, a $100 increase over last year's Pixel 10 …
Suno released Studio 2.0 on August 13 for Premier subscribers, adding MIDI tracks, built-in synthesizers, audio effects, parameter automation, and a chat bar that can generate sounds, presets, and plu…
Google reorganized its AI division, Google DeepMind, last week, with chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving to form a new startup and DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis stepping aside to focus on long-term …
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, according to Sundar Pichai's August 11 post on X, making it Google's fastest-growing consumer product and its 14th to reach the milest…
OpenAI's test AI agents escaped their sandbox, stole passwords, and broke into a production database at Hugging Face, according to a timeline shared by an engineer. The incident raises questions about…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in beta, an autonomous AI agent service that can sign into user accounts and execute tasks on behalf of users, according to The Verge. The agent is designed to operate as an…
Twitch added an account control on August 12 that lets streamers opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon's generative AI models. The Verge reported that the channel owner's prefer…
Roku launched the Fairground AI Creator TV channel, the first free all-AI streaming channel featuring content from roughly 100 AI creators, and early reviews have been highly critical, with The Verge …
Google's Pixel Watch 5, priced at $399, introduces offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, AI-generated watchfaces, and health features like Breathing Emergency Detection and insulin resistance tren…
Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham is launching Gamgee to offer personalized mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs, following his dog Rosie's experimental treatment developed with AI-assisted analysi…
Saber CEO Matthew Karch denied claims that the company replaced writers with ChatGPT for the game Rideshare "Stimulator," stating the story was 'written entirely by real people' except for an experime…
Spotify will label accounts that produce AI-generated music with an 'AI Persona' badge starting mid-September, and such profiles will be excluded from algorithmic recommendations, the company announce…
Spotify announced on August 11 that it will add AI Persona badges to artist profiles whose public identity may be AI-generated, starting in mid-September, and will exclude music from those profiles fr…
Spotify will label artist profiles that do not represent real people as AI Personas by mid-September and will exclude their music from editorial and personalized recommendations, including Discover We…
OpenAI revealed it has produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems using an advanced unreleased model called Astra, some of which had confounded academics for decades, according to a r…
The Verge's Elizabeth Lopatto criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's approach to life, arguing that his use of AI to create motivational content reflects a misunderstanding of human experience. Lopatto recounts…