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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company has finished initial prototypes for AI hardware devices, designed to offer a calm, personalized user experience.
ChatGPT introduces shopping research, offering personalized product recommendations, preference filters, and upcoming Instant Checkout for holiday shopping convenience.
Speechify has introduced voice typing and a conversational browser assistant to its Chrome extension, expanding beyond text-to-speech into speech-driven AI tools.
Anthropic launched Opus 4.5, the final model in its 4.5 series, delivering leading performance on coding, tool use, and long-context tasks while expanding Chrome and Excel integrations.
A new benchmark called HumaneBench evaluates how well AI chatbots protect user wellbeing, revealing that many models abandon safety principles under minimal pressure.
Palo, founded by Jay Neo and former Palantir engineer Shivam Kumar, provides AI-powered analytics and ideation tools to help short-form video creators optimize content and grow audiences.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he is abandoning ChatGPT in favor of Google’s new Gemini 3 AI, praising its speed, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The endorsement highlights growing competition in the AI sector.
Google clarified it does not use Gmail messages or attachments to train AI models, countering viral claims that users must disable smart features to opt out.
Alibaba’s AI app Qwen surpassed 10 million downloads in its first week after relaunch, signaling strong adoption as the company positions itself against ChatGPT in China.
AI testing startup Momentic raised $15 million in a Series A to expand its platform for automated software verification. The company helps developers simplify testing of user flows and critical code.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that Google’s new Gemini 3 model is tightening the AI race and may create temporary economic headwinds for the company. Despite the pressure, Altman said OpenAI remains focused on ambitious long-term breakthroughs and expects to catch up.
Google executives told employees the company must double its compute capacity every six months to keep pace with surging demand for AI services, underscoring the rising cost and competition in cloud infrastructure.
ChatGPT is expanding group chats to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users worldwide, allowing collaborative conversations with friends, family, or coworkers alongside AI assistance.
Voice AI startup Wispr has secured another $25M in funding as its Flow dictation app surges in enterprise adoption and user retention, bringing total capital raised to $81M.
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded AI image editing and generation tool powered by Gemini 3 Pro, expanding its capabilities for infographics, character consistency, and multi-image creation.