Google upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 2.5, introducing web search integration that suggests relevant sources and agentic coding capabilities powered by the Antigravity platform, enabling notebooks to write and run code and export results in multiple formats.
Researchers from UIUC, UC Berkeley, and Chroma unveil Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source AI search agent that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recall benchmarks while training on a fraction of rival data, achieving 73% recall by offloading memory management to a structured external environment.
A new open-source AI agent called Harness-1 outperforms GPT-5.4 with 73% accuracy using minimal training data, while Microsoft launches its own MAI model family, Apple offers free cloud AI access to indie developers, and OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO at a staggering $852 billion valuation.
Anthropic's Claude, with zero chemistry-specific training, now rivals dedicated tools like ChemDraw on NMR prediction tasks, proving AI model capability is no longer science's bottleneck — the real frontier is building the workflow infrastructure that connects frontier models to real data, enabling reproducible, auditable scientific research.
Apple unveils 'Siri AI' at WWDC, powered by Google Gemini, bringing smarter conversations, multi-step tasks, and visual intelligence to newer devices like the iPhone 17 Pro and M4 iPad, with some features limited by hardware specs and iCloud+ subscription tiers.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas confirms a firm 2028 IPO target as the AI industry braces for a wave of major public listings, with Anthropic valued near $1 trillion and OpenAI also filing confidentially, while enterprise AI spending shifts toward cost-efficient models.
Amazon launches an AI-powered custom merchandise tool through Alexa, letting shoppers instantly design and order personalized T-shirts, hoodies, and more via text prompts, posing a serious threat to print-on-demand competitors like Redbubble and Printful.
Apple unveils a rebuilt Siri and sweeping AI integration across all its devices at WWDC 2026, but despite privacy-first guardrails and massive reach, it trails rivals like OpenAI and Google in the rapidly growing AI agents race.
Apple delivers a major Siri overhaul at WWDC, introducing smarter conversational AI powered by Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, featuring personal context awareness, Visual Intelligence, and deep native integration across all Apple devices.
Apple launches its third-generation Apple Foundation Models in partnership with Google Cloud, introducing five new AI models — including on-device and server-based variants — that power a redesigned Siri with major performance gains, with human evaluations showing the new cloud model preferred over its predecessor on nearly 65% of prompts.