Zoom has launched an AI-powered productivity suite integrating generative tools into email, documents, chat, and meetings, with customizable photorealistic AI avatars acting as digital twins. These avatars mirror users’ faces, expressions, lip movements, and gestures, enabling them to join real-time meetings or async video messages when users are unavailable or camera-unready. Safeguards like live camera […]

Google is infusing its Maps app with Gemini AI, marking 2026 as the year of product-centric AI dominance. This upgrade rolls out two game-changers: Ask Maps for smart trip queries and Immersive Navigation for 3D route rendering. No new apps needed—it’s seamless for billions of daily users. Ask Maps lets you pose natural questions about

Apple’s Siri struggles persist, yet its compact Mac mini emerges as the powerhouse fueling AI agent innovation. Perplexity’s recent Personal Computer launch turns the device into a 24/7 local hub, granting secure access to files and apps while integrating cloud AI for seamless task automation. OpenClaw, the open-source viral sensation, pioneered this shift by enabling

Yann LeCun, a top AI expert who won the Turing Award, has long said that Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are a dead end. He believes they can’t truly understand the world like humans do. Now, after leaving Meta, he’s started his own company called Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) to prove his point. AMI

Anthropic P. Inc. has filed dual federal lawsuits challenging the DoD’s “supply chain risk” designation under 10 U.S.C. § 3252 and President Trump’s directive to ban Claude AI across agencies. This follows the firm’s public advocacy for AI safety limits on weapons and surveillance. At stake is Anthropic’s viability, with federal divestment threatening billions in

A French hobbyist, Sammy Azdoufal, turned a PlayStation controller hack into a nightmare, accidentally hijacking 7,000 Romo robot vacuums worldwide. Using DJI’s flawed cloud permissions, he accessed live camera feeds, microphones, and home maps from strangers’ devices. DJI patched it swiftly, paid him $30K as a bounty, and promised audits, but the breach underscores how

Anthropic’s groundbreaking study pierces the AI hype with “observed exposure” — a metric matching what Claude already automates against real job tasks. Programmers face 75% coverage, customer service and data entry hit 67%, while hands-on roles like cooks and bartenders clock in at zero. Cross-referencing U.S. labor data reveals no mass layoffs yet post-ChatGPT, but

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, marketed as “designed for privacy, controlled by you,” face a proposed U.S. class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court, accusing the company and Luxottica of misleading consumers about data handling. Plaintiffs from California and New Jersey claim they relied on privacy assurances and would not have bought the glasses had

OpenAI just unveiled GPT-5.4, their most powerful model yet, arriving at a time when they needed a strong win after recent public backlash. This upgrade excels on real-world tests, outperforming humans on desktop navigation and crushing 83% of professional job evaluations across 44 categories. GPT-5.4 hits new peaks in math, science, coding, and reasoning, with

Waymo, once hailed as the gold standard in autonomous driving, faces intense scrutiny after incidents in Austin, Texas. In January 2026, a robotaxi illegally passed a stopped school bus boarding children, following a remote agent’s error, with Austin ISD documenting over two dozen similar violations since September. Just last Sunday, another Waymo blocked an ambulance

OpenAI’s rushed Pentagon contract, inked hours after the Trump administration banned ethical holdout Anthropic, has unraveled into its gravest brand crisis yet. CEO Sam Altman conceded the deal appeared “opportunistic and sloppy,” triggering protests at San Francisco HQ, employee dissent, and a viral “Cancel ChatGPT” exodus reportedly shifting 1.5 million users to Anthropic. Backlash centered