Google is rolling out sweeping Gemini AI upgrades across Workspace, transforming Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive into intelligent productivity tools that generate drafts, populate data 9x faster than manual entry, and turn Drive into an active AI-powered knowledge base pulling answers from files, Gmail, Calendar, and Chat.
GitHub launches its Copilot SDK, giving developers direct access to the same production-tested agentic AI engine powering GitHub Copilot, enabling autonomous multi-step task execution, tool invocation, and file modification inside their own applications without building custom orchestration stacks.
A powerful new open-source voice AI tool called RCLI now lets Apple Silicon Mac users run a full speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech pipeline entirely on-device with no cloud or API keys required, supporting 38 voice-controlled actions and ultra-fast local document querying at just 4ms latency.
Google is rolling out powerful Gemini AI upgrades across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, letting subscribers generate full drafts, build spreadsheets from prompts, and create presentations by pulling content from Gmail, Drive, and the web.
Nielsen's Gracenote is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, claiming the AI giant scraped its human-curated entertainment metadata without permission to train models like ChatGPT, despite repeated ignored licensing attempts.
Google launches Gemini Embedding 2, its first natively multimodal embedding model, capable of processing text, images, video, audio, and documents together in a single unified space across 100+ languages, now available in public preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer-use and 1M token context as rival Claude hits #1 on the US App Store with record signups, while OpenAI's massive $110B funding round turns out to contain only ~$15B in immediately deployable cash.
Tencent AI Lab launches Penguin-VL, a compact vision-language model that ditches traditional visual encoders in favor of a text-LLM-initialized architecture, delivering stronger fine-grained visual understanding and efficient long-video processing, with two model variants now live on Hugging Face.
Apple's MLX framework now supports the M5 chip's Neural Accelerators, delivering a massive 4x speedup in AI response times and up to 27% faster token generation, powered by the M5's 153GB/s memory bandwidth, enabling MacBook Pro users to run powerful large language models locally with ease.
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a powerful new Microsoft 365 feature that autonomously executes tasks and runs workflows across Outlook, Teams, and Excel on users' behalf, with broader availability expected through the Frontier program in late March 2026.