Google is replacing Assistant with its Gemini AI in cars featuring Google built-in, bringing smarter, natural voice conversations, real-time EV battery insights, charging station recommendations, and owner's manual integration — rolling out now to eligible U.S. vehicles in English.
Google Cloud's new report on generative AI trends reveals that startups heading into 2026 must embrace post-keyboard interfaces, end-to-end AI agent workflows, and interactive 3D media, while doubling down on human creativity and authentic storytelling as their most powerful competitive edge.
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has been officially banned from spontaneously discussing goblins, gremlins, raccoons, and trolls after the model repeatedly brought up such creatures unprompted, with the quirky prohibition going viral and even CEO Sam Altman leaning into the joke as fans build 'goblin mode' workarounds.
Warp, a new open-source terminal-based agentic development environment backed by OpenAI, launches with built-in AI coding agents and support for third-party tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI, already surpassing 42,800 GitHub stars.
A new open-source Chrome extension brings Google's Gemma 4 AI entirely on-device using WebGPU, enabling powerful browser automation, semantic web search, and tab management with zero data sent to external servers.
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.
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.
Claude surges past 200 app integrations, adding Spotify, Uber, TurboTax, and more while introducing mid-conversation connector suggestions and strong privacy protections that keep user data out of AI training.
Apple and Google are uniting on AI as Google Cloud powers Apple's next-generation foundation models built on Gemini technology, with a more personalized Siri launching later this year that taps into users' messages and emails through a redesigned Dynamic Island interface.
A new open-source CLI tool called 'skills' lets developers instantly share and manage reusable AI agent instruction sets across 40+ coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and has already exploded in popularity with 15,000 GitHub stars.