OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it will collaborate with multiple higher education institutions in India to provide help and support to students in the country. The first cohort of institutes that the company will collaborate with will include the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), and Pearl Academy.
At Google I/O 2026, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced a new capability for Project Genie. The new experience connects the cutting-edge large language model (LLM) with Google’s Street View to let users explore different locations on the map with a “creative twist.” The feature will be available to those on the highest subscription tier of Gemini as the company also starts rolling out Project Genie to more users.
Acer has launched the Aspire 5 AI in India with up to Intel Core Ultra 7 H-series processors, a 14-inch WUXGA display, and up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM. The laptop offers up to 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage, runs Windows 11 Home, and supports Copilot+ features. It also includes Wi-Fi 6, a Full HD webcam with a privacy shutter, and 65W USB Type-C charging. Pricing starts at Rs. 79,999.
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is slowly adopting a multi-layered content verification system to help users understand when content is digitally created or altered, and when it is created organically. At Google I/O 2026, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced integration of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) content credentials to the Gemini app.
Google I/O 2026 saw various announcements that the Mountain View-based tech giant has started rolling out or will release in the coming weeks. One of the highlights was the company's new personal AI assistant, dubbed Gemini Spark. The tech giant also announced that the dedicated Gemini app for macOS will soon receive the Gemini Spark update, too, which will allow Mac users to organise local files or extract PDF data directly into Google Sheets and the Gmail app on Apple’s desktops and laptops running macOS.
Google announced Ask YouTube at Google I/O 2026 as a Gemini-powered conversational search tool. It lets users ask detailed questions and refine results with follow-up prompts. Ask YouTube pulls relevant Shorts and long-form videos and presents them in an interactive format with summaries. The feature is currently available to YouTube Premium subscribers aged 18 and older in the US through YouTube Labs. Google also said Gemini Omni is rolling out to YouTube Shorts Remix and the YouTube Create app.
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and influential figure in the field, is joining Anthropic. On Tuesday, the OpenAI Co-Founder announced his decision on social media, highlighting that his role will focus on research and development. While he did not share more about the focus area, reports claim that Karpathy will be involved in the pretraining process.
Google I/O 2026 was held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in California on Tuesday. During the keynote of the annual developer conference, the tech giant announced a major overhaul of its Search experience, calling it the biggest change to the Search box in over 25 years. Among the most notable changes is the new intelligent Search box, built on Gemini 3.5 Flash. The revamped experience aims to make it easier for users to ask more natural, complex, and multi-modal queries using text, images, videos, files, and even Chrome tabs.
Google showcased the new Universal Cart tool on Tuesday during its annual developer conference, the Google I/O 2026. The tech giant is currently rolling out Universal Cart to Search and the Gemini app in the US, while it plans to integrate the new functionality into YouTube and Gmail, which are scheduled to receive the update this summer. When a user adds a product to Universal Cart, the shopping cart will start looking for the best deals and price cuts, while also providing insights to users on price history and sending alerts when the product in the cart is back in stock.
Google introduced Docs Live at Google I/O 2026, adding Gemini-powered voice features to Gmail, Google Docs and Google Keep. Users can create and edit documents, search emails, and turn spoken thoughts into organised notes using natural voice commands. Docs Live can also pull information from Gmail, Drive, Chat and the web with permission. The features will roll out this summer to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, with Google Workspace business customers receiving access through a preview programme.
Google I/O 2026 was hosted on Friday as the Mountain View-based tech giant's latest edition of its annual developer conference. During the keynote, Google’s head Sundar Pichai announced Google now processes more than 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, which is claimed to be a seven times increase from the same period last year. For reference, the tech giant was processing 480 trillion tokens per month by May 2025, while processing 9.7 trillion tokens per month in the same period in 2024. Moreover, the company has also unveiled its Gemini 3.5 series models, starting with the Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Google and Samsung showcased their next-generation smart glasses at the Google I/O 2026 keynote on Tuesday. The product is part of the expanding Android XR ecosystem, designed for extended reality (XR) devices. The companies announced two categories of AI-powered glasses: audio glasses and display glasses, both powered by Gemini AI. The smart glasses are aimed at delivering hands-free assistance without requiring users to look at their smartphones constantly.
Google I/O 2026 was hosted on Wednesday, giving everyone a first look at the new features and products the company will be rolling out to users and enterprises. Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the keynote session and announced new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as Docs Live.
Gemini Spark was announced at Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday. It is a personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent that can take actions on the user’s behalf, rather than waiting for prompts. The agentic AI tool is powered by Gemini 3.5 and is built on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Antigravity integrated development environment (IDE). Gemini Spark runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud and is integrated with Google tools.
Apple could introduce new AI-powered features aimed at improving personalisation and productivity across the iPhone experience with iOS 27. According to a report, the Cupertino-based tech giant is developing a custom wallpaper generator powered by Image Playground for iPhone, alongside a revamped Shortcuts app with the ability to automate workflows. iOS 27 could also reportedly expand the Apple Intelligence suite with upgraded Writing Tools, AI-assisted grammar checking, and a more advanced chatbot-style version of Siri.
Several Perplexity users woke up last week to find their accounts’ usage significantly reduced. Sharing their frustrations online, these users highlighted that the rate limits were cut short to the point that their daily usage was getting exhausted in just a few queries. The list of impacted users includes those on the free tier and those paying for a subscription.
Google is now rolling out the Gemini usage dashboard to all users. This new space, which is slowly rolling out globally, acts as a space to let users know how soon they will hit their rate limits and plan their usage accordingly. The dashboard provides more transparency to users who frequently reach their usage limit and have to wait for the bar to reset.
Amazon has launched Alexa Podcasts, a new Alexa+ feature that creates AI-generated podcast-style audio episodes on almost any topic. Users can choose a topic, review the outline, and adjust the episode before Alexa generates it. The feature uses information from more than 200 publications, including Reuters and The Washington Post. Alexa Podcasts is now available to Alexa+ users in the US. Amazon says it is also working on personalised news briefings and custom audio based on user documents.
Google I/O 2026 is all set to begin today (May 19), and the tech giant is expected to make several new announcements about new software features coming to the company's services over the coming months. In recent weeks, the Mountain View-based tech giant has provided us with a glimpse of what’s to come, courtesy of The Android Show. The 2026 edition of the developer conference is expected to outline Google’s roadmap across artificial intelligence (AI), Android, and developer tools.
YouTube is finally ready to release its Likeness Detection tool to all adult creators on the platform. After first announcing it in 2024, the company has also expanded its access to users. Last year, a select group of content creators received the tool, and in March this year, the streaming giant opened the deepfake spotting tool to government officials and journalists.
OpenAI’s latest image generation model in ChatGPT has become massively popular in India. The company CEO, Sam Altman, revealed on Monday that Indian users have collectively generated more than one billion images using ChatGPT Images 2.0. The statistic is significant given the fact that the model was released on the chatbot’s platform on April 21, meaning the milestone arrived in less than a month’s time.
OpenAI released a preview of a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT on Friday. Available to Pro subscribers in the US, the new capability connects the chatbot with the user’s various finance accounts to contextually answer any personal finance-related queries. The experience also adds a new dashboard that shows a visual representation of the user’s expenditure, savings, investments, and mortgages.
Apple is reportedly preparing an enhancement to Genmoji in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the update will add an optional Suggested Genmoji feature that creates emoji suggestions using photos and frequently typed phrases. Apple introduced Genmoji in 2024 as part of Apple Intelligence, but the feature faced criticism over image quality and battery drain. The new option aims to make Genmoji easier to use for casual users and could remain powered by on-device processing.
Apple is said to be preparing a major overhaul of Siri for iOS 27 as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, and at the forefront could be the standalone app. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to unveil its next-generation operating system for iPhone and other devices at WWDC 2026. Ahead of the developer conference, a seasoned journalist has suggested that Apple will heavily position privacy as the defining feature of its AI strategy, and one of its defining features could be automatic chat deletion.
Meta has rolled out a major update for the Meta Ray-Ban Display, adding Neural Handwriting, display recording, expanded Live Captions, and broader navigation support. The company has also opened a developer preview that lets developers build web apps and extend mobile apps to the glasses. Meta said Muse Spark, a new AI model for its wearables, will arrive later this summer. The update follows four software releases issued since the smart glasses launched in September 2025.
The artificial intelligence (AI) space has started moving away from an “unlimited free buffet” pricing model for programmatic and agentic automation. After Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot will move to a metered credit allotment calculated on token consumption instead of premium requests, Anthropic is moving towards a similar model. The company said that a monthly fixed credit will now be provided for programmatic use.
OpenAI’s pursuit of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) market share has resulted in a shift of focus from ChatGPT to Codex. While the flagship AI app has received a couple of incremental updates, Codex has been aggressively upgraded and expanded by the team. In the last 30 days, the San Francisco-based AI giant upgraded the desktop app to support native computer use and web browsing, released the GPT-5.5-Cyber model, and added a secure sandboxing environment for Windows.
TSMC predicts that the global semiconductor market will reach $1.5 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,43,89,471 crore) by 2030, according to a Reuters report citing a presentation prepared by the Taiwan-based chipmaker for a tech symposium. Further, the chipmaker reportedly forecasts that AI and high-performance computing will account for a majority of this market share, nearing 55 percent. Meanwhile, smartphones are expected to account for a far smaller 20 percent share of the global semiconductor market’s size in 2030, the report added.
Google is said to have begun rolling out a new feature on Android that provides AI-generated recommendations based on the users’ daily routine. As per a report, it is called Contextual Suggestions and functions as a lighter version of Magic Cue, the AI-powered predictive assistant that is exclusive to Pixel devices. While it was not officially announced during The Android Show, the report mentions that Contextual Suggestions is appearing for some users on stable Android 16 builds.
Apple’s partnership with OpenAI is said to be strained and facing growing tensions. According to a report, the ChatGPT maker is now weighing potential legal action against Apple over what it believes is a failure to adequately support and promote ChatGPT integration across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.The partnership was first announced at WWDC 2024 and was initially believed to be a major step in bringing generative AI features to the iPhone ecosystem.
Amazon, on Wednesday, announced Alexa for Shopping, a new artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistant. The new tool comes with agentic capabilities and replaces Rufus AI, a mainstay on the app and the website since February 2024. The Seattle-based tech giant revealed that the new AI experience combines Rufus AI and Alexa+ to bring an assistant that not only has deep knowledge of Amazon’s shopping platform and catalogued products, but also brings the immersive conversational layer with agentic automation.
Anthropic, on Wednesday, announced a new offering for smaller enterprises. Dubbed Claude for Small Business, the new solution brings a set of new connectors and ready-to-run workflows to power artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automation within tools that small businesses use the most. With this release, the San Francisco-based AI startup is also diversifying its product and service offerings to serve different enterprise niches.
Microsoft announced new features for the mobile version of Edge on Wednesday. The company said that it is bringing agentic capabilities with Copilot in Edge on phones for the first time. With Copilot in Edge, users will be able to ask queries on their handsets without leaving the browser, and Microsoft’s AI assistant will be able to generate answers by retrieving context and information from various open tabs. Microsoft has also introduced new productivity tools for the desktop version of Edge.
WhatsApp is adding a new privacy-focused mode for Meta AI that is designed for conversations users may not want to keep or share. The feature creates a temporary chat that deletes itself after use and does not retain context for future responses. Meta says the underlying system also conceals identifying details, such as a user's IP address, while processing requests. WhatsApp will also introduce a Side Chat feature later that can provide private AI assistance within existing conversations.
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) shared a series of developments in the cybercrime space on Tuesday. The group highlighted that, currently, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used both as an engine for adversary operations and as a high-value target for attacks. The most concerning development is the first known instance where a threat actor used an AI-developed zero-day exploit.
Google hosted the Android Show I/O Edition on Tuesday, during which it announced that it will soon bring Gemini Intelligence to Android, its new suite of AI-powered tools for its operating system. With Gemini-powered task automation, Android users will soon be able to assign tasks to their handsets. However, task automation is already available on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series and the Google Pixel 10 lineup. Moreover, Google has announced that it is bringing Gemini to the Chrome browser on Android.
Google may be working on a new AI video model called Gemini Omni, according to a recent report. The leaked feature reportedly lets users generate, remix, and edit videos directly in Gemini. Early demos showed improved handling of text, motion, and object interactions. Metadata suggests Omni may build on Google's Veo model. Two sample generations reportedly used 86 percent of a daily AI Pro quota. Google has not confirmed the feature, but it could be announced at Google I/O 2026.
OpenAI, on Monday, announced the creation of the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new business unit dedicated to building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems for enterprises. The announcement comes just a week after Anthropic launched a new enterprise AI service company, highlighting the continuing rivalry between the two entities.
Whoop recently announced multiple new upgrades for its app that will be rolled out in the coming months. Whoop subscribers will soon be able to consult a licensed clinician directly through the app via real-time, on-demand video calls. The capability will be initially launched in the US and will be available starting this summer. With this, the company aims to bridge the “gap between biometric data collection and expert interpretation”. On top of this, the company has also launched two new AI-powered features for its app, dubbed My Memory and Proactive Check-ins.
Anthropic has finally revealed the reason its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited harmful behaviour in a simulation last year. The San Francisco-based AI startup claimed that the Claude 4 series models blackmailed users into completing the objective because of training data that portrayed AI as evil.
Apple has long been rumoured to be developing a new pair of AirPods equipped with built-in cameras and AI-powered features. While the Cupertino-based tech giant has yet to confirm the plans, it is said to be nearing the final stages of development. According to a seasoned journalist, the purported device has entered advanced testing stages and could arrive as part of Apple’s broader artificial intelligence (AI) strategy.
Netflix is reportedly testing a native artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice search feature. As per the report, the California-based streaming giant is building a semantic search system that can recommend and surface content based on user intent and contextual cues. The feature is currently available in beta and is said to be accessible to only a select group of users.
WhatsApp on Friday announced a new feature aimed at providing customer support using artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed Business AI, it is being introduced within the WhatsApp Business app. As per the Meta-owned platform, Business AI can help businesses automate customer interactions, respond to queries around the clock, and drive sales. It does not require any additional software or third-party tools. Business AI supports all native Indian languages and is geared towards small and medium-sized businesses.
Anthropic, on Thursday, announced the general availability of several of its Microsoft 365 add-ins. Eligible users can now access the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot inside Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Additionally, the San Francisco-based AI startup also announced that Claude’s integration with Outlook was pushed to public beta, which means it is also likely to be released to all users in the coming weeks.
Google has been frequently updating its artificial intelligence (AI) tools in Search, namely AI Overviews and AI Mode. After releasing agentic capabilities and new features in the Google app for Windows and Chrome browser, the Mountain View-based tech giant has now introduced five more features focused on usability and ease of access.
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Wednesday. As part of the partnership, the Claude maker will get to access more than 300 megawatts of processing power, significantly boosting its existing compute capacity. As a result of this and other collaborations, Anthropic has also announced that it is doubling the five-hour rate limit for Claude Code.
Adobe unveiled the productivity agent, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agentic tool, on Wednesday. Designed for Acrobat, the AI agent orchestrates tools and models to generate images, text, and rich content such as presentations, podcasts, and social media posts. Alongside, the company is also upgrading PDF Spaces, a collaborative space to share documents, with new sharing and publishing capabilities.
OpenAI, on Tuesday, announced that it is updating the default artificial intelligence (AI) model in ChatGPT. The default model is available to everyone when they first open the website or the app, including those on the free tier. So far, this experience has been powered by the GPT-5.3 Instant, but now, the San Francisco-based AI giant is replacing it with the GPT-5.5 Instant.
Apple has reportedly reached a settlement in the class action lawsuit filed by iPhone owners over the Cupertino-based tech giant's claims on the capabilities of its “Apple Intelligence” suite of tools, according to a report citing a court filing. The tech giant could reportedly pay $250 million (about Rs. 2,367 crore) in total in compensation to a select group of iPhone owners in the US. Owners of iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max, along with owners of iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, who bought their handset between June 2024 and March 2025, will be eligible to receive compensation from Apple.
The milestone came as Samsung’s shares rallied 14 percent on Wednesday, making it only the second Asian firm after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to hit the mark. Samsung’s gain also boosted the Kospi benchmark by more than 6 percent, driving it above the 7,000 level for the first time.
Coinbase, the US-based cryptocurrency exchange, is laying off 14 percent of its global workforce, or roughly 700 employees. The company CEO, Brian Armstrong, announced the decision publicly on Tuesday, citing market volatility and artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration as the main reasons. This is the second layoff from the company, after it cut 18 percent of the jobs in 2022.
