New features and launches in ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity and other AI tools, plus changes to pricing and availability.
YouTube just unveiled Peak Points, an ad product powered by Gemini that spots the most engaging moments in popular videos to place brand placements. Announced at Brandcast 2025, the tool reads viewer attention peaks so advertisers can jump in right at emotional highs, alongside new edge-to-edge and shoppable formats for living room TVs.
Google is now testing a refreshed homepage layout that swaps the iconic "I'm Feeling Lucky" button with a dedicated AI Mode. Instead of conventional link snippets, the new button directs users to a full-length, AI-generated answer page. Google confirmed it is currently an ongoing experiment rather than a permanent redesign.
Google just announced a massive Gemini expansion across its entire Android hardware ecosystem. The AI assistant is coming to WearOS smartwatches, Android Auto for smarter conversational navigation, Google TV, and upcoming Android XR headsets co-developed with Samsung. It basically marks Google Assistant's official retirement across every screen you own.
Vectara just integrated a new Hallucination Corrector directly into its AI platform to catch and fix unreliable model responses in real time. Paired with its popular HHEM evaluator, the tool explains why a statement is inaccurate and rewrites it, reducing hallucination rates to about 0.9% in enterprise tests.
Alibaba's Qwen Chat just launched its Deep Research feature for the general public following weeks of testing. Users provide a topic, answer a quick follow-up question to narrow the scope, and let the model generate a comprehensive report. Why it matters: Autonomous research agents are rapidly shifting from exclusive enterprise tools to standard, free chatbot capabilities.
Notion just rolled out an AI meeting notetaker that listens via system audio to transcribe calls and generate structured summaries while you take notes alongside it. Currently live on Mac via the "/meet" command across dozens of languages, the update also brings enterprise search and an AI research mode.
Spotify just updated its AI DJ feature to support voice commands, letting users request specific songs, switch genres, or change the playlist vibe just by speaking. Currently available in English across more than 60 markets for Premium subscribers, the update turns the passive commentary DJ into a two-way interactive selector.
Audible just launched an end-to-end AI audiobook production suite for publishers, featuring over 100 voices across English, Spanish, French, and Italian. Later this year, a beta translation tool will also add speech-to-speech translation that preserves a narrator's original voice across languages. It’s a massive push to turn unvoiced backlists into global audio.
OpenAI just launched its first connector for ChatGPT deep research, linking the tool directly to GitHub repositories. It can analyze codebases, map dependencies, and break down product specs into engineering tasks. Rollout starts with Plus, Pro, and Team users, with Enterprise and Edu following soon.
Google just detailed how it is deploying on-device AI across Search, Chrome, and Android to block evolving online scams. Desktop Chrome's Enhanced Protection mode now runs Gemini Nano locally to catch zero-day scam sites like fake remote tech support, while Android gains on-device warnings against rogue notifications, fraudulent texts, and suspicious calls.
LM Studio just rolled out version 0.3.15, bringing CUDA 12.8 support and serious performance upgrades for NVIDIA GeForce RTX users. With CUDA graphs and Flash Attention kernels baked into llama.cpp, local model throughput jumps by up to 35% across RTX 20 Series through Blackwell GPUs. The update also adds granular tool_choice controls and an overhauled system prompt editor for running offline agents.
Google just launched a dedicated iPad app for its Gemini AI assistant on the App Store. The tablet version supports iPadOS Split View, letting users keep Gemini open side-by-side with other apps. It is Google's latest push to capture Apple users ahead of I/O 2025.
Figma just rolled out a major suite of AI-powered features, headlined by Figma Sites for building and publishing responsive websites, and Figma Make for prototyping web apps directly from prompts. The update pushes Figma beyond mockups into full production, competing with WordPress, Canva, and Replit. It also added marketing asset tool Buzz and a new $8/month content seat.
Microsoft is bringing support for the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. It lets agents swap goals, manage state, and trigger cross-cloud workflows securely, so developers aren't locked into a single ecosystem. A Python sample is already live in Semantic Kernel.
Anthropic just introduced native web search across its API and in Claude Code. Claude can now autonomously decide when to search, run multi-step queries, and return answers with source citations. It costs $10 per 1,000 searches plus standard tokens, saving developers from maintaining their own search pipelines.
Hugging Face just released Open Computer Agent, a free cloud-based tool that controls a Linux virtual machine to handle tasks. It's sluggish and easily tripped up by CAPTCHAs, but it shows open models are getting capable enough to power practical agent workflows.
Microsoft just unveiled a wave of new AI experiences for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, headlined by an on-device agent in Settings that fixes PC issues via plain English. The update also brings dynamic photo relighting, text-to-sticker generation in Paint, and quick AI actions inside File Explorer. Microsoft is steadily weaving agentic automations directly into desktop plumbing.
Oura just rolled out AI-powered glucose tracking and photo-based meal logging to expand into metabolic health. Users can pair a $99 Dexcom Stelo CGM to view blood sugar trends and AI summaries in the Oura app, while the Oura Advisor chatbot analyzes meal photos to estimate nutrition. Why it matters: Smart rings are pushing metabolic monitoring into the mainstream, turning raw glucose spikes into plain-language health advice.
Google just launched Simplify in its iOS app, powered by Gemini models designed for minimally-lossy text simplification. Unlike basic summarization that cuts content, the system preserves nuance and original details while making dense language readable. In trials, it improved reading comprehension accuracy on complex medical texts by 15%.
Windsurf just kicked off its Wave 8 release week with a major focus on teams and enterprise workflows. The first batch brings Windsurf Reviews, a GitHub app that checks pull requests against internal guidelines, alongside context engine support for Google Docs and shared Cascade conversations. It is a clear push to take AI coding beyond individual text editors into full team lifecycles.
