Google launches Search Live nationwide, enabling users to have voice conversations with AI while sharing real-time camera feeds for instant visual assistance with travel, hobbies, troubleshooting, education, and entertainment needs.
Alibaba shares rocket 9% in premarket trading as CEO Eddie Wu announces plans to boost AI spending beyond the company's existing $53 billion three-year investment, while unveiling its new Qwen3-Max language model and expanding cloud infrastructure globally with new data centers across multiple continents.
OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of coding startup Windsurf ignites a major intellectual property dispute with Microsoft, as the AI giant refuses to grant its key partner equal access to the new technology despite their existing multibillion-dollar investment agreement, potentially threatening their crucial cloud alliance.
AI company Cohere raises additional $100 million funding, pushing its valuation to $7 billion while launching new Command A series enterprise models with vision, reasoning, and translation capabilities for secure deployment across global markets.
Google rolls out Search Live nationwide, allowing US users to have real-time AI conversations using voice commands and camera through a new 'Live' button in their mobile apps, instantly answering questions while providing relevant web links for tasks like cooking tutorials or device setup.
WhatsApp launches built-in text translation feature for iPhone and Android users, supporting multiple languages including English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic, allowing instant message translation in chats and groups by simply long-pressing messages.
xAI's new Grok 4 Fast AI model rockets to the top of search leaderboards while slashing operational costs by 47 times compared to competitors like GPT-5 and Claude, offering real-time web and X search capabilities at dramatically reduced pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens.
Apple launches MCP (Model Context Protocol) support in new developer betas, allowing AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to directly control iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps autonomously without requiring custom developer integrations.
Medical startup Akido Labs deploys AI system ScopeAI to help doctors see 4-5 times more patients by having medical assistants conduct appointments while physicians remotely review AI-generated diagnoses, raising expert concerns about safety, bias, and inadequate testing in clinics serving primarily Medicaid patients.
OpenAI releases GPT-5 alongside groundbreaking Responses API that maintains reasoning across conversations, featuring hosted tools like web search and image generation with 40-80% better cache performance and multimodal capabilities that preserve the model's thinking process between interactions.