Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, enabling users to save and reuse AI prompts via simple shortcuts, streamlining repetitive tasks as AI-powered browser features continue to surge in popularity across the industry.
Google launches a Gemini desktop app for macOS, offering instant AI access via a keyboard shortcut, but the Apple Silicon-only release with no Windows version in sight suggests Google is still playing catch-up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
OpenAI rolls out its ChatGPT Windows desktop app with screen awareness and quick-access shortcuts, but only paid subscribers can use it now — free users must wait until later this year for full access.
Google launches a free native Gemini app for macOS 15 and above, letting users share their screen for instant AI-powered insights and access the assistant from anywhere with a quick Option + Space keyboard shortcut.
Cisco's Jeetu Patel warns that AI agents are becoming a dangerous new cybersecurity threat as the developer population could explode from 150 million to 3 billion within a year, urging enterprises to prioritize trusted, governed AI access before nation-states and bad actors exploit autonomous agents at scale.
Salesforce launches Headless 360, a sweeping platform overhaul exposing all its capabilities as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands, empowering AI agents to operate across Slack, WhatsApp, Voice, and ChatGPT without a UI, while introducing over 60 MCP tools and enterprise-grade governance features for centralized AI agent control.
Anthropic launches Claude Code, an AI coding assistant now available across terminals, IDEs, Slack, and browsers, with teams reporting 7.6x more frequent deployments and 14% week-over-week growth, starting at $17/month.
OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance in an acqui-hire move, bringing aboard founder Ethan Bloch and roughly 10 employees as the AI giant signals a growing push into financial technology talent.
Anthropic launches a sweeping Claude Code overhaul featuring a multi-session desktop UI, drag-and-drop controls, an integrated terminal, and new Claude Code Routines that automate coding tasks on a schedule — a direct enterprise power move against OpenAI's rumored superapp combining Codex, Atlas, and ChatGPT.
Google launches 'Skills' in Chrome, allowing users to save and reuse AI prompts as one-click tools within Gemini, with customizable workflows, a pre-built library, and multi-tab functionality for tasks like calculations, comparisons, and document scanning.