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Meta announced a nationwide initiative to provide Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses free of charge to blind veterans across the United States, expanding access to the…

Apple is positioning its next-generation Siri as a task-focused AI assistant rather than a conversational companion, with software chief Craig Federighi saying…

Microsoft has blocked employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 internally while the company reviews the model’s data retention policies, highlighting…

Pool, a new app designed to organize screenshots and saved images, is launching with an AI-powered approach to helping users rediscover content buried in their…

Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new speech-to-speech translation model that can automatically detect more than 70 languages and generate…

New research is raising concerns about one of the AI industry’s most prominent product trends: giving chatbots persistent memory. The study, published today,…

Decart has launched Oasis 3, a new world model designed to generate photorealistic driving environments in real time. Available immediately through an API, the…

Google is cutting the price of its AI Plus subscription plan in the United States from $7.99 to $4.99 per month while doubling the included cloud storage from…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has criticized Anthropic’s handling of discussions around AI consciousness, calling it “really, really dangerous” for the…

Anthropic today launched Claude Fable 5, a new Mythos-class AI model designed for general availability, alongside Claude Mythos 5, a version with fewer…

Google is expanding NotebookLM with a new set of agentic research capabilities, upgraded reasoning models, and additional output formats designed to help users…

Apple used WWDC 2026 to introduce a new natural-language layer for Shortcuts in iPadOS 26, allowing users to create automations by describing them in plain…