Amazon launches expanded Alexa+ in 2026 with revolutionary voice-activated hotel booking through Expedia, home service scheduling via Angi, and appointment setting using natural conversation, marking a major leap in AI assistant capabilities.
xAI's Grok 3 launches DeeperSearch on March 19 requiring up to six and a half minutes for detailed answers and Edit Image feature on March 22 for modifying pictures with text prompts, though both face speed and functionality limitations compared to competitors.
AI agents now leverage digital to-do lists to systematically break down complex multi-step tasks like travel planning, using LangChain's TodoListMiddleware to coordinate multiple tools while maintaining persistent memory beyond their context limitations.
GitLab's former CEO Sid Sijbrandij launches Kilo Code's App Builder, a revolutionary tool that generates functional apps in minutes with usage-based pricing, challenging heavily-funded competitors like Lovable despite having only $8 million in seed funding versus their $500+ million war chest.
New security benchmark reveals major AI models including GPT and Gemini fail most jailbreak tests with scores as low as 40%, while Anthropic's Claude dominates safety rankings with 75-80% success rates, exposing widespread vulnerabilities across the industry despite advances in model size and capability.
Creative professionals and skilled workers are deliberately rejecting AI tools for their core expertise areas like art, writing, and coding, saying artificial intelligence removes joy from creative work and proves unreliable for tasks requiring precision, accuracy, or genuine human connection.
PostgreSQL's new BM25 search algorithm extension threatens to eliminate Elasticsearch for most applications by fixing keyword stuffing and relevance ranking issues while enabling hybrid search that combines exact keyword matching with AI-powered semantic understanding in a single database.
OpenAI concedes that prompt injection attacks against AI browsers may be permanently unsolvable, while security experts raise alarms about high-risk data exposure as these systems gain access to emails and payment information.
ChatGPT launches 'Your Year' wrapped feature in five countries, offering personalized awards, custom poems, and images to individual users while excluding business accounts from the Spotify-style annual review experience.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Image 1.5 with improved text clarity and photo realism, but the new model still lags behind Google's Nano Banana Pro in speed, accuracy, and overall image quality despite representing significant progress from previous versions.