PPT Master, an open-source AI tool with 7.8k GitHub stars, now converts PDFs, DOCX files, URLs, and Markdown into fully editable PowerPoint presentations with real shapes and charts — running locally for as little as $0.08 per deck using Claude, GPT, or Gemini.
Google is rolling out AI-powered email summaries in Gmail to business, enterprise, and education users, enabling Gemini-driven natural language queries that instantly surface insights across multiple emails and conversations.
Microsoft commits a record-breaking $18 billion to Australia by 2029, supercharging AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in what marks the tech giant's largest-ever investment in the country.
The White House accuses China of 'industrial-scale' AI theft as Anthropic exposes roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts tied to Chinese labs DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI, which generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude to steal proprietary data, while Congress pushes new sanctions legislation ahead of a high-stakes Trump-Xi summit where …
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in secondary market valuation, hitting $1 trillion on Forge Global as its annualized revenue explodes from $9 billion to $39 billion in just months, with investor demand so intense that some are offering property in exchange for shares.
Vercel confirms hackers accessed customer data before its early-April breach, with infostealer malware suspected as the attack vector targeting tokens and API keys, as investigators warn the incident is broader in scope with more victims expected to emerge.
The Trump administration accuses China-backed actors of running an 'industrial-scale' AI theft campaign, using proxy accounts to steal capabilities from American models like Claude and Gemini, with OpenAI and Anthropic confirming attacks by firms including DeepSeek ahead of Trump's upcoming Beijing visit.
Microsoft's Copilot agentic AI is now live in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, delivering multi-step, app-native actions that are already driving massive user engagement gains, with Excel alone seeing a 67% engagement spike, 50% boost in new user retention, and 65% jump in satisfaction ratings.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 just seven weeks after GPT-5.4, achieving a recursive self-improvement milestone where the model helped build itself, while introducing enhanced agentic capabilities across 44 occupations and expanded safety protocols with zero latency impact.
Meta is slashing 10% of its workforce, cutting 8,000 jobs and canceling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, as the tech giant redirects resources toward massive artificial intelligence spending.