Google launches the Pixel 11 lineup starting at $899, bringing powerful Gemini AI capable of handling multistep tasks across 40+ apps and major camera upgrades including Magic Capture and faster Night Sight, with retail availability beginning August 20.
ChatGPT and Codex now allow users to seamlessly import projects, settings, memories, and recent chats from rival AI tools Claude and Cursor, making it easier than ever to switch or consolidate AI workflows without losing existing configurations.
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide, bringing AI-powered slide creation directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to instantly transform prompts, notes, and documents into polished, editable presentations.
Google's Pixel phones are pushing AI photography to unprecedented limits, with generative AI solving once-impossible challenges like low-light and zoom quality, but as features like sky replacement and adding absent people to photos emerge ahead of the Pixel 11 launch, a provocative question looms: at what point does AI-enhanced photography stop capturing reality and start creating fiction?
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 upgrades ChatGPT with GPT-5.6 Luna, cutting factual errors by 62% and slashing prices at an unprecedented pace as competition from cheaper Chinese AI models intensifies.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a revolutionary full-duplex voice system that lets AI listen and speak simultaneously, delivering near-instant, natural conversation by eliminating traditional turn detection and cutting session startup from six network round trips to just one.
Google's Gemini Spark now integrates directly with Chrome, using saved accounts and passwords to autonomously book appointments and research flights, while built-in security protections guard against prompt injection attacks and keep users in control of sensitive transactions like payments.
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann launches a $249 AI companion pendant 2.0 with a built-in speaker, OpenAI-powered upgrades, and randomly assigned voices, targeting lonely users as he pushes to scale sales from 5,000 to 50,000 units despite widespread public criticism.
Google launches a powerful new voice feature for Gemini on macOS, letting users dictate polished text and perform complex AI tasks like summarizing documents, rewriting content, and generating images simply by holding the Fn key and speaking naturally.