Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first introduced in January and the company claimed that Wan 2.1 can generate highly realistic videos.

Following the acquisition of former Apple designer Jony Ive's artificial intelligence (AI) hardware startup io by Sam Altman’s OpenAI on Wednesday, information has surfaced about the AI device these two companies might be developing. As per an industry analyst, it is currently in a prototype phase with a size slightly larger than the failed Humane’s Ai Pin but it may still be as “elegant” as an iPod Shuffle. The device is slated to enter mass production in 2027.

Signal, the popular privacy-focused messaging platform, rolled out a security feature on Wednesday to counteract Microsoft’s Recall feature. The new feature, dubbed Screen Security, will prevent devices from capturing screenshots of the application’s window. The San Francisco-based company said it was forced to take such drastic measures as Microsoft left it with limited options to protect the privacy of its users.

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence (AI) hardware startup io on Wednesday. Just hours after that, Sam Altman reportedly revealed information about the secretive AI device the two companies are building. As per the report, the under-the-wrap device is not a smartphone, or a wearable such as smartglasses.

Amazon is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature designed to make users’ shopping experience more convenient. Dubbed audio product summaries, the AI-powered feature lets users listen to a short highlight about the product. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said the audio clip has two or more AI-generated shopping experts discuss various aspects of the product to help users understand if it is the right choice for them or not.

Mistral released a new coding-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday. Dubbed Devstral, it is an open-source coding agent that can perform software development tasks. The Paris-based AI firm says that, unlike other open software engineering (SWE) agents, this model can solve real-world software engineering problems and write contextualised code in a codebase.

Computex 2025, Asia's biggest tech event, has become an epicentre of tech-related announcements. Nvidia, Foxconn, DeepSeek, Xiaomi and Huawei are among companies that stole the spotlight at the event with their plans and announcements.

LinkedIn is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users look for ideal roles easily. The Sunnyvale, California-based professional networking platform released the AI job search tool in the US earlier this month. It is now expanding its access globally, including in India. The AI tool will let professionals type the desired role as a natural language query, and it will find and show relevant roles.

OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive's startup, io Products, for $6.5 billion (roughly Rs. 55,850 crore). Ive was the chief designer behind early iPhone models. He has now been appointed as creative head of the firm to shape AI-focused devices for the future.

Apple is reportedly planning to let third-party developers build apps using its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant wants to open its AI model, which also powers Apple Intelligence features, in hopes that more AI-powered apps appear on its marketplace. With more apps that use AI capabilities, the company is said to believe that it could invigorate consumer interest in devices that offer Apple Intelligence.

Google I/O 2025 keynote session on Tuesday was focused on new artificial intelligence (AI) updates and features. Alongside, the Mountain View-based tech giant also introduced a new tool to bring more transparency when it comes to AI-generated content. Dubbed SynthID Detector, it is an under-testing verification portal which can detect and identify multimodal AI content made using the company’s AI models.

Google announced a multitude of artificial intelligence (AI) updates and new features at I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Alongside, the company also shared its long-term vision with AI, and the way it wants to evolve its current line of AI products. Demis Hassabis, the Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, highlighted the new developments with Project Astra and Project Mariner, as well as the tech giant’s plans with Gemini Robotics.

Google unveiled the next generation of its image and video generation artificial intelligence (AI) models on Tuesday at the I/O 2025 event. Dubbed Imagen 4 and Veo 3, these multimodal AI models arrive with new capabilities and upgrades over their predecessors. While Imagen 4 features faster generation times and improved text rendering, Veo 3 gets native audio generation capability and can integrate background sound and dialogues in generated videos.

Oppo Reno 14 series was unveiled in China last week and they're expected to be available in select global markets soon. The Reno 14 global versions will come with integrated Google Gemini features, the company has confirmed. The Chinese variants of the phones run on Android 15-based ColorOS 15 out-of-the-box, sport 1.5K flat OLED screens and are claimed to meet IP66+IP68+IP69 dust and water-resistant ratings.

Google hosted the keynote session of its I/O 2025 developer conference on Tuesday. During the session, company CEO Sundar Pichai and other executives announced a plethora of new artificial intelligence (AI) updates and features. Some of these include new capabilities in the Gemini 2.5 series of AI models, updates to AI Mode in Search, and expansion of AI Overviews.

Google is rebranding its Project Starline and turning it into a 3D video communication platform, the company announced at its annual developer conference on Tuesday. Dubbed Beam, the platform enables users to connect with each other in a more intuitive manner by turning 2D video streams into 3D experiences. It leverages the Google Cloud platform along with the company’s AI prowess to deliver enterprise-grade reliability and compatibility with the existing workflow.

Google is expanding its AI Overviews feature to over 200 countries along with broadening support for more languages, the company announced during the keynote of its I/O 2025 developer conference held in California on Tuesday. With this update, the AI-powered search tool will now be available in Arabic, Chinese, Malay, Urdu, and more languages, enabling users to see text in the local languages of each of their respective countries and get a quick overview of the topic.

Google showcased several new features for the Gemini 2.5 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models at the Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced an enhanced reasoning mode dubbed Deep Think, which is powered by the Gemini 2.5 Pro model. It also unveiled a new, natural and human-like speech called Native Audio Output, which will be available via the Live application programming interface (API).

Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) feature in Search, AI Mode, is now getting multiple new capabilities. Announced at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now making the AI-powered end-to-end search experience more capable and useful. The mode is getting new features such as a reasoning mode, Live Search, agentic capabilities to reserve a table at a restaurant, and new shopping tools.

MediaTek showcased several artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a wide range of devices and platforms at Computex 2025 on Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chipmaker unveiled its first hybrid computing solution to offer AI capabilities on the edge, a new chipset to bring AI to in-car infotainment systems, as well as an Internet-of-things (IoT) platform to power a broad range of devices at the event.

Microsoft's AI marketplace is set to add models from Elon Musk's xAI. Grok 3, that was introduced by Musk earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform in the coming time. Meanwhile, xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini will be available on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry.

Microsoft introduced a new open project dubbed NLWeb at its Build 2025 conference on Monday. Short for Natural Language Web, the NLWeb project aims to build an interface to websites that support artificial intelligence (AI) models. With AI capabilities, these websites will then support natural language queries by users and provide answers for those queries.

Microsoft released an agentic web interface on Monday that can perform complex tasks on the web. Announced at the company’s Build 2025 conference, the new tool is named Magentic-UI, and the company is pitching it as a “human-centred web agent.” The Redmond-based tech giant claims that, unlike other computer use agents, this one collaborates with the user to complete a project and transparently shows the actions it takes in a separate panel.

Tecno Megabook S16 was unveiled at the Computex 2025 event in Taipei on Tuesday. The laptop was introduced as the company's latest flagship AI PC that is equipped with several self-developed AI-backed features, which are claimed to help users with multitasking, among other things. The company has revealed some key features of the PC but has yet to confirm its price and availability details.

Google launched the standalone app for NotebookLM on both Android and iOS on Monday. Earlier this month, the Mountain View-based tech giant listed the app on both Google Play and the App Store and allowed users to pre-register for it. Nearly three weeks later, the app is now available on both operating systems and carries several of the core features of the website version.

CloudSEK announced the completion of its Series A2 and B1 funding rounds on Tuesday. The cybersecurity platform said that it has raised $19 million (roughly Rs. 162.3 crore) in the combined funding round. The round witnessed participation from both Indian and US-based investors, the company stated. While new investors have been onboarded, the existing backers continue to be part of the company.

Google I/O 2025 will begin in a few hours, and anticipation is building for new software features across Google's services. Last week's sneak peek at Android 16 and Wear OS 6 suggests that Google will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and Android XR. Here's how you can watch the Google I/O 2025 keynote livestream.

Acer launched several Copilot+ PCs at Computex 2025 in Taiwan on Monday. The company has introduced three laptops as part of its lineup — Acer Swift Go 14 AI, Swift Go 16 AI, and Swift Edge 14 AI, powered by up to Intel Core Ultra 9 processors. The Swift Go 16 AI and Swift Go 14 AI are introduced as thin-and-light laptops with features like improved Acer Multi-Control Touchpad for enhanced control. Meanwhile, the Acer Swift Edge 14 AI sports a 14-inch 3K OLED edge-to-edge glass display and comes with Corning Gorilla Matte Pro surface treatment on top.

Microsoft has already spent $64 billion (roughly Rs. 5,46,718 crore) this year, much of it on data centers needed for AI-based services such as Copilot used in its popular Microsoft 365 applications. But there are signs that Microsoft is reworking its relationship with OpenAI and seeking to become a neutral arms dealer in the AI race.

Google quietly released the ML Kit GenAI application programming interface (API) last week, allowing Android developers to build apps that leverage the capabilities of Gemini Nano. As per a document added to its developer forum, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now letting developers access the image description feature of the artificial intelligence (AI) model as well.

Computex kicks off Monday in Taipei, and as in years past will draw industry chieftains from Huang and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon to Young Liu of Foxconn, which makes the bulk of the world’s iPhones and Nvidia servers.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to adopt Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to let multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents work together. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant said that it is focusing on multi-agent workflows and improved memory capability of its agents. The adoption of Anthropic’s MCP standard could be announced at the Microsoft Build 2025, scheduled for Monday.

Apple will refrain from unveiling major Siri upgrades at WWDC 2025 next month, according to a Bloomberg report. Instead, the tech giant will reportedly focus on refining current Apple Intelligence features and introducing a few new ones with the iOS 19 update later this year. The company faced delays in rolling out advanced Siri capabilities unveiled at WWDC 2024.

Samsung is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can turn images into videos. As per a tipster, the South Korean tech giant is developing an AI-powered image-to-video feature that can convert any photo in the user’s gallery into a “few-second-long” video. There are no other details about the feature available.

Windsurf, an artificial intelligence (AI) no-code or vibe coding platform, released a series of AI models on Thursday. Dubbed SWE-1, these models are focused on complex software engineering tasks, and not just writing code. The series comprises SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini, where each model is designed for specific use cases.

Meta is reportedly delaying the release of its flagship "Behemoth" AI. Early in its development, Behemoth was internally scheduled for release in April to coincide with Meta's inaugural AI conference for developers.

Netflix unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) for its advertisers at its Upfront event on Wednesday. The streaming platform is heavily investing in its new in-house ad platform dubbed Netflix Ads Suite, and it showcased some of the features and tools that advertisers can leverage. The company also unveiled several ad formats to help its clients reach their desired targets.

Google One subscription service recently crossed 150 million subscribers In 2024, Google introduced a $19.99 a month plan with access to AI capabilities unavailable for free users. The company continues to offer Google One subscription tiers for file storage, but without most AI features, at lower prices.

YouTube unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its advertisers on Wednesday. The new feature, dubbed Peak Points, was showcased at the company’s Brandcast event held in New York. The Google-owned video streaming giant said that the feature will use Gemini to determine the moment in a video where viewers are most engaged.

Google announced rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI) and accessibility features to Android and the Chrome browser on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced these features on the occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, observed on the third Thursday in May. The company has added Gemini capabilities to the alt text description feature, and is now expanding the Expressive Captions feature, which was only available in the US.

Google is adding a new feature to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini. Announced on Wednesday, Gemini can now connect to GitHub repositories and perform several coding tasks. These include generating and modifying functions, explaining code, answering queries about the codebase, debugging code, and more. Currently, the feature is only available to the paid subscribers of the platform.

TikTok announced three new accessibility-focused features on Thursday. The new features were announced on the occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which falls on the third Thursday in May (this year, it is on May 15). One of the new features is an update to the alternative text (alt text) support, which now uses AI to generate automatic descriptive captions.

Dell launched a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) PCs in India on Thursday. The lineup comprises three models — Dell 14 Plus, Dell 16 Plus, and Dell 14 2-in-1 AI PCs, which have been introduced under the new unified branding as part of the Dell Plus portfolio. As per the company, its new AI PCs are powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra processors and are built for delivering Copilot+ AI capabilities.

Google DeepMind announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent on Wednesday that can enhance the capabilities of AI models. Dubbed AlphaEvolve, it is designed to discover and optimise algorithms across complex computing and mathematical tasks. The powerful AI system is built on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini models, and it combines outputs generated by large language models with automated evaluators to ground the responses in reality and reduce the risk of hallucinations.

OpenAI announced the expansion of the recently released GPT-4.1 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models to ChatGPT. These models were so far exclusive to the company’s application programming interface (API), but on Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI firm said that they will also be available within the chatbot. In particular, the GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini models are being rolled out to ChatGPT currently.

Stability AI developed a new text-to-audio generation artificial intelligence (AI) model in partnership with Arm. Announced on Wednesday, the new model is dubbed Stable Audio Open Small, and it is said to generate short audio samples using text prompts. The London-based AI firm said that the model is lightweight and is optimised to run entirely on Arm CPUs.

Apple researchers released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate 3D views from multiple 2D images. The large language model (LLM), dubbed Matrix3D, was developed by the company’s Machine Learning team, in collaboration with Nanjing University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). The Cupertino-based tech giant has made the AI model available to the open community, and it can be downloaded via Apple’s listing on GitHub.

Samsung on Wednesday announced the integration of Gemini, Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, into its lineup of wearables. Samsung Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Buds 3 series users will soon be able to leverage the AI assistant for setting up reminders, summarising texts, getting weather updates, and other activities that the AI bot previously allowed on phones. With this move, the company expands the presence of AI features across all devices in the Galaxy ecosystem.

TikTok is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to turn an image into an animated video. On Tuesday, the vertical video-based social media platform announced a new AI feature dubbed AI Alive that uses generative AI technology to create videos from photos. Currently, the tool can only be used to generate videos in TikTok Stories, and not directly to the feed.

Microsoft said on Tuesday it was laying off less than three percent of its workforce, or around 6,000 employees. The cuts will be across all levels and geographies and are likely the largest since Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees in 2023.

Google is said to be testing the placement of an “AI Mode” button on the Search home page. Several netizens found an AI Mode button added in different locations on the page, and posted about it on social media. Based on these screenshots, the Mountain View-based tech giant is experimenting with the placement of the feature when it finally rolls out to a wider user base.