Google Maps is rolling out major AI upgrades, enabling users to book food, hotels, and events through simple conversations, while a new Personal Intelligence feature connects Gmail for personalized travel suggestions and a real-time transit widget tracks live delays minute-by-minute.
OpenAI is developing a screenless AI smart speaker designed to act as a humanlike home companion, capable of controlling smart-home devices, playing media, answering questions, and integrating with ChatGPT's full capabilities — marking the company's bold first move into consumer hardware.
OpenAI is racing to unveil a ChatGPT-powered smart speaker designed by Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom, featuring a camera, sensors, and AI companion capabilities — but a looming Apple trade secret lawsuit threatens to derail the entire hardware roadmap before it even launches.
Poke, an AI agent startup valued at $300 million, makes history as the first AI agent approved to run on Apple's iMessage platform, bringing everyday AI assistance for tasks like calendar management and smart home control directly to iPhone users via text message.
RuView is turning ordinary WiFi signals into a powerful real-time human detection system, tracking presence, breathing, heart rate, and room layout — no cameras, wearables, or cloud required — running on $9 hardware with sub-10ms edge processing and AI that adapts to new environments in under 30 seconds.
California startup Span is partnering with Nvidia and PulteGroup to install silent, liquid-cooled AI computing nodes on residential homes, turning houses into mini data centers while rewarding homeowners with discounted electricity and internet bills.
MIT's SEED-SET framework is revolutionizing AI safety by automatically detecting ethical blind spots in critical infrastructure systems before deployment, uncovering alarming biases like AI prioritizing wealthier neighborhoods during peak power demand.
Uber teams up with China's Pony AI and Croatia's Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb, with testing already underway and plans to scale to thousands of autonomous vehicles across multiple European markets.
Amazon's Zoox is expanding its robotaxi service to Austin and Miami, scaling its fleet to 100 vehicles, pursuing NHTSA approval for 2,500 self-driving cars, and partnering with Uber to offer commercial rides in Las Vegas this summer.
Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.