Do Son Meta has finalized its acquisition of voice AI startup PlayAI, integrating its team to enhance Meta AI, virtual characters, and voice tech for smart glasses, boosting its "AI Superintelligence" initiative.
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xAI unveils Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, claiming superior performance in benchmarks and multi-agent capabilities. A new era of AI for enterprise and power users.
OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's startup io to develop groundbreaking AI-powered devices. The partnership aims to redefine human-technology interaction.
Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered browser for Max subscribers. Experience automated tasks, natural language interaction, and enhanced workflow.
OpenAI is launching an AI-powered browser, deeply integrating ChatGPT to enable users to complete tasks via conversational interactions, aiming to challenge Google Chrome's market dominance.
GlobalFoundries is acquiring MIPS to bolster its RISC-V processor core and software capabilities, strengthening its competitive edge in AI, autonomous driving, and data centers.
Google Gemini AI now accesses your Android phone, messages, and WhatsApp by default, overriding privacy settings. Users must manually disable this intrusive cross-app integration.
Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs, expected H2 2025, will feature enhanced NPUs to meet Copilot+ PC specs, bringing advanced AI capabilities to more Windows desktops.
Isomorphic Labs (Google DeepMind's subsidiary) announced its first AI-designed drug is ready for clinical trials, marking a historic milestone in AI-driven pharmaceutical development.
Elon Musk will livestream the Grok 4 AI unveiling on July 9. The new model features multimodal input (text/image), 130K token context, enhanced reasoning, and Cursor editor integration for coding.
Apple's "ACDC" initiative aims to build its own cloud infrastructure using proprietary chips, potentially offering server rentals to developers for high-performance, cost-effective AI compute.
Google's AI-powered Veo 3 video generation tool is now available, enabling users to create cinematic videos with audio from text prompts via the Gemini app.
Perplexity AI launches its $200/month "Max" subscription, offering unlimited access to Labs (creation tools), early access to Comet browser, and frontier AI models from OpenAI/Anthropic.
Cloudflare launches "Pay Per Crawl," allowing websites to charge AI companies for content scraping. Publishers can set prices, aiming for a new economic model for the web.
Apple is negotiating with OpenAI and Anthropic to integrate their AI models into Siri, potentially sidelining its in-house efforts to overcome development hurdles and financial demands.
Microsoft exposes North Korea’s Jasper Sleet (Storm-0287) using AI-enhanced deepfakes and fake personas to secure remote IT jobs at 300+ US firms, funding the DPRK regime and stealing data.
Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app in the US. It creates personalized digital avatars for virtual try-ons and animated videos of users wearing different outfits.
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire PlayAI, a voice-generation AI startup, to strengthen its AI voice tech and multimodal capabilities, following its Scale AI investment and superintelligence push.
Google unveils Gemma 3n, a groundbreaking open-source, on-device multimodal AI model. It brings high-end performance to mobile devices via MatFormer architecture and memory optimizations.
Google's "Ask Photos" feature relaunches in the US, blending traditional image search with Gemini AI for faster, more contextual natural language queries within your photo library.
Google Cloud launches Gemini CLI, a free, open-source terminal tool bringing Gemini 2.5 Pro to developers for code generation, debugging, and file manipulation.
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