Meta acquires AI voice cloning startup PlayAI, adding its team to Meta's efforts in developing superhuman artificial intelligence and AI products like AI Characters and wearables under Johan Schalkwyk.
In a major shakeup, Windsurf's CEO, co-founder, and top researchers defect to Google DeepMind after OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition falls through, with Google paying $2.4 billion to license Windsurf's technology and hire its key personnel.
Anthropic's Veo 3 update introduces speech for video clips created from images, while Flow expands globally to over 140 countries, although its audio generation capabilities remain experimental with inconsistent quality.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Search now integrates ecommerce platforms like Shopify and Turbify, displaying product images, prices, and summarized reviews from merchant data, enhancing its shopping capabilities.
Grok 4, a groundbreaking multimodal AI, unveils deeper thinking, faster performance, and multimodal capabilities supporting text, images, and potentially video, aiming to overcome bias concerns with improved content moderation for enhanced credibility.
OpenAI unveils an open-weight language model accessible to the public through cloud providers like Azure and Hugging Face, marking its first open release since partnering with Microsoft.
In a major AI talent move, Apple's AI chief Ruoming Pang, responsible for developing language models and features, departs for Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Labs, as the tech giants compete for top AI talent.
Replit partners with Microsoft, enabling developers to create applications using AI-powered natural language and deploy them directly to Azure cloud infrastructure, revolutionizing the app development process.
OpenAI revises its safety guidelines, downplaying disinformation concerns and indicating it may release 'high risk' AI models if rivals have already done so, while addressing risks through terms of service and monitoring.
Google unveils MCP Toolbox for Databases, enabling secure and efficient integration of AI agents with databases through schema-aware tools, connection pooling, credential authentication, and conformance with Model Context Protocol for structured AI-database interactions.