OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model, which was released last week, is underperforming on a specific benchmark. Epoch AI, the company behind the FrontierMath benchmark, highlighted that the publicly available version of the o3 AI model scored 10 percent on the test, a much lower value than the company’s claim at launch.
Perplexity released a voice assistant for iOS on Wednesday. Powered by the company's native artificial intelligence (AI) answer engine, the voice assistant comes with web browsing capability and can access multiple apps to complete tasks. The AI assistant for iPhone devices comes three months after the company rolled out the Perplexity Assistant for Android devices.
Meta Platforms on Wednesday announced several new features for the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. The live translation feature has been expanded to all the markets in which the smart glasses are available, enabling users to converse in English and select other languages in real time, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). Meta says it will soon introduce the ability to send and receive direct messages (DMs) and video calls through Instagram as well as a feature which lets the glasses see what you’re seeing and have more natural conversations about it.
Motorola’s upcoming smartphones could reportedly come with artificial intelligence (AI) apps from Perplexity and Microsoft pre-installed. As per the report, a Google executive revealed the information during a testimony for the company’s ongoing antitrust case in the US. The Mountain View-based tech giant is accused of illegally monopolising the online search market.
Apple's new Siri engineering chief is overhauling the management team. Mike Rockwell, head of engineering for the assistant, is replacing much of Siri’s leadership with lieutenants from his Vision Pro software group. He’s also restructuring teams related to speech, understanding, performance and user experience, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the changes are private.
Baidu reportedly made its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Xinxiang available for Android devices on Wednesday. The Chinese tech giant is pitching the mobile-focused agentic tool as an upgrade over AI-powered chatbots in surfacing and analysing information. The app is currently available for the Android platform in China, however, it is unclear if the company will introduce the AI agent outside the country.
Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot by xAI, is getting a couple of new features. Announced on Wednesday, the AI firm is rolling out Grok Vision, a computer vision feature, to its iOS app. Additionally, xAI is also shipping multilingual audio support and real-time web search to both the Android and iOS apps.
ChatGPT head of product Nick Turley made the statement while testifying at trial in Washington where US Department of Justice seeks to require Google to undertake far-reaching measures restore competition in online search. The judge overseeing the trial found last year that Google has a monopoly in online search and related advertising.
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the videos will also feature speech, which is being powered by the company’s native text-to-speech models.
ElevenLabs introduced a new enterprise-focused feature on Monday that will allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to communicate with each other. Dubbed Agent Transfer, the feature transfers a conversation from one agent to another when specific conditions are met. The first agent also shares the previous conversation data with the onboarding agent to help it contextualise the information and carry forward the conversation.
Zoom launched several new enterprise-focused features last week, expanding its agentic tools. The San Jose-based communications technology company is introducing several AI agents across the Zoom Workplace, including Custom AI Companion, Zoom Tasks, and more. Additionally, the company is also rolling out multiple new features for its existing products such as Zoom Phone, Whiteboard, and Zoom CX.
Instagram is expanding its Teen Accounts setting, which was first rolled out in 2024, with a new proactive technology and parents' reach-out campaigns. Announced on Monday, the Meta-owned social media platform is testing the use of AI-powered age detection tools to identify teenagers on the platform who have added an adult birthday.
Motorola Solutions on Monday launched a new device called the SVX to help first responders seeking ways to save time and react to emergencies. With this, the company is aiming to build on its dominant position in the public safety market with more than 60 percent of 911 calls in the US being routed through the company's software systems.
Google has recently released several new Gemini features, including the Gemini 2.5 models. But that’s not all the Mountain View-based tech giant has in its roadmap. Recently, in a live demonstration given at a TedTalk, the company teased its artificial intelligence (AI) Glasses and several of its capabilities. Separately, the company also hinted at new Gemini features that could be released in the near future, as per a report.
Huawei plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C AI chips to Chinese customers as early as next month. The timing is fortuitous for Chinese AI companies which have been left scrambling for domestic alternatives to the H20, the primary AI chip that Nvidia had until recently been allowed to sell freely in the Chinese market.
Airtel announced an expansion to its network-based artificial intelligence (AI) solution for spam calls and messages detection on Monday. The AI-powered tool, dubbed AI spam detection, can automatically identify and detect spam calls and SMSes and send a notification to users to alert them. The alert is sent in almost real-time.
Microsoft announced the rollout of Copilot Vision to all users in the Microsoft Edge browser last week. The computer vision-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) feature was first unveiled by the company in December 2024, and so far, it has only been available to Copilot Pro subscribers. The Redmond-based tech giant is now expanding the AI feature to all Edge browser users.
Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents and efficiently surface information that an AI system requires to complete a task.
Anthropic is adding a new capability to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. Announced last week, the company is adding a new agentic capability, dubbed Research, to the chatbot. Similar to Deep Research in Gemini and ChatGPT, Research allows Claude to conduct multiple web searches on different topics to find comprehensive information about a topic, and explore different angles of the questions automatically.
CMF Phone 2 Pro is scheduled to be launched globally and in India on April 28. Leading up to its debut, the Nothing subsidiary has been teasing various aspects of the upcoming handset, the latest of which is its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. CMF by Nothing has confirmed that the Phone 2 Pro will be equipped with an AI-powered Essential Space feature.
Google is offering college students a free year of Gemini Advanced that is usually bundled with its Google One AI Premium plan. This promotion offers 15 months of free access, and is designed to rival OpenAI's recent offer of two free months of ChatGPT Plus for students. The offer also provides users with 2TB of Google storage and other Gemini AI features.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is flattening the semiconductor giant's leadership, with key chip divisions now reporting directly to him, as per a memo seen by Reuters. The restructuring aims to turnaround the chipmaker after years of challenges, streamlining decision-making for its data centre, AI, and PC chip groups.
WhatsApp has begun testing a new in-app message translation feature on its Android app. Spotted by a feature tracker, the new message translation feature enables seamless, automatic on-device translation. The 'translate messages' feature processes chats directly on the user's device, and will ask users to select and download language packs for offline processing.
Mivi, the Hyderabad-based consumer tech brand, shared more information about its soon-to-be-released Mivi AI voice assistant with Gadgets 360 recently. The company shed light on the workings of the AI model, text interface, freemium model, and training methods. Notably, the AI system is primarily a voice-based experience, and users can have conversations with various avatars.
OpenAI introduced an open‑source artificial intelligence (AI) command‑line tool on Thursday that can operate within a user’s terminal. Dubbed Codex CLI, it is essentially an AI agent that can perform various coding tasks and can even autonomously execute commands, all within a sandboxed local system. The tool does not require any installation setup, and can use multiple OpenAI AI models.
OpenAI is introducing a new service tier for developers starting Thursday via its application programming interface (API). Dubbed Flex processing, it reduces the AI usage costs by half for developers, compared to standard pricing. However, the lowered prices come with the consequence of slower response times and occasional resource unavailability.
xAI announced the rollout of a new memory feature for the Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Thursday. Similar to ChatGPT and Gemini, the feature will allow Grok to remember specific details about users, which it can use to personalise future conversations. Memories will also enable the chatbot to deliver tailored advice and recommendations, making conversations more fluid.
Perplexity is reportedly exploring partnership options to increase the visibility of its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. As per the report, the company is in talks with Lenovo-owned Motorola and Samsung to integrate the virtual assistant into their devices. It is said that the partnership with Motorola could be announced soon, while discussions are still ongoing with the South Korean tech giant.
Microsoft has reportedly begun internally testing Copilot for Gaming, its under-development artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for Xbox gamers. As per the report, the AI app is currently available to the company’s employees. The Redmond-based tech giant unveiled the Xbox Copilot in March and showcased some of its features.
Google announced the rollout of the Gemini Live with Camera and Screen Share features to all compatible Android devices on Wednesday. Last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the availability of the features to the Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series. Now, the company is rolling it out to all Android devices that support the Gemini app.
OpenAI released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed o3 and o4-mini, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused models with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that these models come with visual reasoning capability, which means they can analyse and “think” about an image to answer more complex user queries.
OpenAI is rolling out a new library feature in ChatGPT that will allow users to check all their images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in a single view. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is available to all registered ChatGPT users across all its interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that the library will act as a space to let users browse, revisit, and reuse their images.
Appy Pie has launched two new AI models on Tuesday. Dubbed PixelForge and Vibeo, these are multimodal large language models that can generate images and videos. The former is a text-to-image model, whereas the latter can generate videos from a text or image input.
Anthropic is reportedly working on a voice chat feature for its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. As per the report, the AI firm is planning to launch the feature, dubbed ‘voice mode’, as soon as this month. While rivals such as OpenAI and Google have already added a dedicated voice mode in their chatbots, ChatGPT and Gemini, Anthropic has so far only focused on the text interface.
Google announced the rollout of the Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model to Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. Currently, the AI model will only be accessible to the paid subscribers of Gemini. With this AI model, eligible users can generate eight-second-long videos with text or image-based prompts. The Mountain View-based tech giant first introduced Veo 2 in December 2024, as the successor to the Veo AI model.
OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-owned social platforms.
Google Classroom is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can generate questions on a particular topic based on information shared with the tool. Announced on Monday, the feature is currently available to the paid Education tier of Google Workspace users. Powered by Gemini, the tool can generate a wide variety of questions that can be used to assess students.
Google Photos integration with the Gemini app on Android is reportedly now rolling out to users. Earlier this month, the Mountain View-based tech giant confirmed that the integration was being released to the public. With this, users can now ask Gemini questions about their photos to either locate specific images or derive information from within the images saved in Google Photos.
Apple is developing new techniques to analyse user data patterns and aggregated insights to improve its artificial intelligence (AI) features. The Cupertino-based tech giant shared these differential privacy techniques on Monday, highlighting that these methods will not breach users’ privacy. Instead, the company is focusing on gathering data such as usage trends and data embeddings to measure and improve its text generation tools and Genmoji.
OpenAI released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Monday. Staying true to its unusual naming convention, the company called this the GPT-4.1 family of AI models. There are three variants — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that these models outperform the GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini across several metrics.
Spotify is launching its Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX) platform and advertiser-focused artificial intelligence (AI) tools in India. Announced on Monday, the new services for advertisers in the country were launched just a week after its global launch. SAX is a programmatic ad platform that automates the process of buying and placing ads on the platform.
Netflix is reportedly testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its platform. As per the report, the streaming giant is working on an AI-powered search engine that will replace the existing search function on the platform. It is said to be powered by OpenAI’s AI models and will let users search for content using more specific terms.
Oppo announced its strategic vision for agentic AI at the Google Cloud Next 2025 event on Saturday. The tech giant said it is working on the next phase of its artificial intelligence (AI) features and experiences for users, which will be driven by in-house development as well as a collaboration with Google. The Chinese consumer tech brand also previewed a system-wide AI Search feature for its devices.
Mivi, the Hyderabad-based consumer tech brand, unveiled Mivi AI, a voice-based artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, on Friday. The company said Mivi AI is currently under development but will soon be rolled out to users. It also teased AIBuds, expected to be the first earbuds that will offer the Mivi AI functionality.
A dozen former OpenAI employees filed a legal brief on Friday backing co-founder Elon Musk's lawsuit aimed at keeping the non-profit status of OpenAI. In their federal court filing on Friday, the former employees contended that stripping the nonprofit of its controlling role would "fundamentally violate" its mission, as it would lose oversight of the for-profit AI development entity.
Google introduced the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, last week. Unveiled at Google Cloud Next 25, it is said to be the company’s most powerful and scalable custom artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the chipset was specifically designed for AI inference.
Adobe shared a sneak peek of several under-development artificial intelligence (AI) agents across its platforms on Wednesday. The San Jose-based software giant is currently looking at how agentic tools can complete manual tasks to free up users to focus on creativity and productivity-based tasks. Adobe is building several AI agents for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, Adobe Express, and even Creative Cloud.
OpenAI announced an update to the Memory feature in ChatGPT on Thursday. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is now improving the memory function so that it can not only remember certain information about users’ preferences and interests but can also remember and reference past conversations. The company said the new feature will enable the chatbot to have a more natural conversation with users, and will appear more like a companion.
Google showcased its XR glasses prototype at TED 2025 in Vancouver, that can be connected to a smartphone for tasks like real-time translation and scenario analysis with a 'Memory' feature. While Apple and Samsung have already announced mixed reality headsets, firms like Meta, Google, and Snapchat are currently developing lightweight XR glasses resembling spectacles.
Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit. The cuts in the division, which houses the Android platform, Pixel phones and the Chrome browser among other applications, follow Google's January buyout offers to employees in the unit.
