Google launches computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash, empowering AI agents to see, reason, and take control of browsers, mobile, and desktop environments, while deploying new security safeguards to protect against prompt injection attacks.
Baidu's newly released Unlimited-OCR, an open-source long-horizon document parsing model built on DeepSeek-OCR, is rapidly gaining traction with 5.6K GitHub stars, offering powerful single-image and multi-page PDF parsing capabilities with a live Hugging Face demo available now.
Mistral launches OCR 4, a powerful document recognition model scoring 85.20 on OlmOCRBench, supporting 170 languages, delivering up to 8x cost reduction and 17x lower latency than competitors, and available now via API at just $4 per 1,000 pages.
Alibaba Cloud surges to No. 2 globally in AI video generation with its newly launched HappyHorse 1.1 model, capitalizing on a rapidly contracting market as OpenAI shuts down Sora and ByteDance freezes its rival product, though geopolitical tensions and a Pentagon military designation threaten to limit Western enterprise adoption.
Smart glasses sales explode 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026 as AI supercharges AR technology, with broader AR/VR categories surging 86%, driven by consumer demand for real-world AI assistants and fueled by breakthroughs in chip miniaturization and display tech that are pushing the industry closer than ever to mainstream adoption.
Runway's AI Film Festival in Santa Monica puts generative AI filmmaking in the spotlight, showcasing ten short films that blend 4K AI-generated shots with traditional footage, as Hollywood accelerates its embrace of the technology through major studio deals and high-profile advisers like Martin Scorsese, even amid growing pushback from creatives …
Microsoft's free 'AI For Beginners' open-source curriculum is taking the world by storm, amassing 48,000 GitHub stars as it delivers 12 weeks of hands-on AI education — covering neural networks, computer vision, and ethics — in over 50 languages to learners worldwide.
A powerful new open-source tool called 'Lift' launches on GitHub, achieving 90.2% accuracy in extracting structured JSON data from PDFs and images, outperforming Azure Content Understanding and NuExtract3 across 225 benchmark documents, with a managed API version pushing accuracy even further to 95.9%.
AI startup General Intuition is raising $300M at a $2B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, leveraging 2 billion gaming videos annually to train embodied AI agents with unique spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities.
NVIDIA launches an open source XR AI beta platform enabling developers to build real-time visual and voice AI agents for AR glasses and XR headsets, powered by GPU-accelerated services including Cosmos, Nemotron, and NeMo Agent Toolkit.