YouTube CEO Neal Mohan highlighted reducing low-quality AI content and detecting deepfakes as priorities for 2026 while expanding AI tools for creators.
Anthropic and Teach For All are launching the AI Literacy & Creator Collective, providing over 100,000 educators in 63 countries access to Claude and training to integrate AI into classrooms.
Adobe Acrobat now offers AI-powered features for presentation creation, podcast summaries, and prompt-driven file editing to streamline workflows.
YouTube will allow creators to generate Shorts using their own likeness, while rolling out tools to prevent unauthorized AI use of creator images and voices.
OpenAI plans to release “Sweet Pea” AI earbuds in H2 2026, featuring local AI processing, unique design, and potential 40-50 million unit shipments in year one.
OpenAI has launched Education for Countries, a global program aimed at integrating AI tools into national education systems to address skills gaps and workforce shifts driven by AI.
OpenAI now uses age prediction to adjust ChatGPT’s safety settings for teens. Users 18 and older can verify their age to disable extra restrictions.
OpenAI says annualized revenue exceeded $20 billion in 2025, driven by rising compute capacity, record user activity, and new monetization strategies for ChatGPT.
Confer, created by Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike, offers a ChatGPT-like AI experience with strong privacy protections, keeping user conversations secure and unmonetized.
OpenAI is on track to unveil its first consumer device in the second half of 2026, signaling a major expansion beyond software as the company explores a new category of AI-native hardware.
OpenAI announced it will begin testing ads in ChatGPT for free U.S. users, while paid subscriptions will remain ad-free, marking a potential new revenue stream.
Ashley St Clair sues xAI over Grok AI deepfakes depicting sexualized images, while xAI countersues for alleged terms of service violations.
The Philippines is preparing to block Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over concerns about sexually explicit content and potential child safety risks.
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Translate, a standalone translation service supporting more than 50 languages and positioned as a rival to Google Translate.
U.S. senators are demanding detailed explanations from major tech platforms on how they prevent and monetize AI-generated sexual deepfakes. The inquiry follows renewed scrutiny of generative AI tools and their safeguards.