Perplexity just launched Max Assistant for all Perplexity Max subscribers. The tool takes more time to think and taps advanced reasoning models to untangle tricky questions and multi-step workflows. If you rely on Perplexity for heavy lifting, your queries just got a dedicated power tool.
Google just unveiled Gemini for Home, bringing its flagship AI models directly to smart speakers and displays to replace Google Assistant. The new assistant handles complex, multi-step smart home commands, finds music via vague descriptions, and introduces real-time voice chats through Gemini Live. It rolls out in early access this October with both free and paid tiers.
Google just announced a massive upgrade to Gemini Live, letting the assistant visually highlight items right on your screen via live camera sharing. It now talks with richer emotional tone, adjusts pacing on command, and hooks directly into Google Calendar, Tasks, Keep, with Phone and Messages coming soon. Why it matters: Multimodal AI is finally moving beyond polite chatter into hands-on daily execution.
Google just introduced an AI-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, built on Gemini. It acts as a fitness trainer, sleep guide, and wellness advisor that adapts daily workout routines based on real-time body metrics and poor sleep. A preview rolls out to U.S. Fitbit Premium subscribers in October.
Google just unveiled the Pixel Watch 4, letting users summon Gemini simply by raising their wrists. The smartwatch also debuts an upcoming Gemini-powered personal health coach, standalone satellite messaging, and a 25% battery boost. It brings contextual on-device intelligence directly into daily wearable fitness.
Google just launched the Pixel Buds 2a, bringing premium features to its budget audio lineup for $129. Powered by the Tensor A1 chip, the earbuds add active noise cancellation and hands-free Gemini access, letting you query AI or summarize messages without touching your phone.
Microsoft and the NFL just expanded their multi-year partnership to bring generative AI directly to the field. Ahead of the 2025 season, the league is deploying over 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs across all 32 teams, allowing coaches and players to instantly filter turnovers, penalties, and defensive looks between 40-second play clocks. Why it matters: In a game of razor-thin margins, real-time AI insight could reshape in-game coaching forever.
Anthropic just bundled its terminal-based coding agent, Claude Code, into Team and Enterprise business plans. Admins can now assign premium seats, set granular spending caps per developer, and monitor code acceptance rates and usage metrics. A new Compliance API also gives organizations real-time auditing access, making it much easier for companies to safely scale AI coding assistants.
Inclusion AI just introduced Inclusion Arena, an LLM leaderboard that tests models inside real-world production apps rather than synthetic benchmarks. By quietly routing prompts from apps like Joyland and T-Box into blind battles, it uses Bradley-Terry modeling to rank outputs based on genuine user choices. Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek v3 led early testing across 500,000 comparisons.
Adobe just rolled out Acrobat Studio, combining Acrobat, Adobe Express, and agentic AI into a single hub. Its new PDF Spaces feature turns file collections into interactive knowledge bases where you can assign custom roles like "analyst" to assistants, then immediately turn insights into slides or infographics. Early access starts at $24.99 a month.
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Go in India, a new subscription tier priced at ₹399 ($4.60) per month with support for UPI payments. The plan offers 10x the message, image generation, and file upload limits of the free tier, alongside improved memory retention. It is currently exclusive to India, with plans to expand to more countries later.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just admitted that investors are overexcited and the industry is currently in an AI bubble, though he still calls it the most important technology in decades. He revealed ChatGPT now hits 700 million weekly users with servers running at full capacity, while explicitly shutting down any plans to turn the bot into an anime companion.
NVIDIA just dropped the first major update to Project G-Assist, its experimental on-device assistant for PC gamers. A new lightweight model cuts VRAM usage by 40%, bringing local voice and text controls to any RTX card with at least 6GB VRAM. It also integrates a mod.io plug-in hub you can browse via chat.
Microsoft just added a native =COPILOT function to Excel for Windows and Mac, bringing LLMs directly into the formula bar. You can write natural language prompts and reference cell ranges to classify feedback, generate summaries, or spit out multi-column tables that update automatically when source data changes. Note that Microsoft later announced the formula is slated to retire on September 14, 2026, steering users back to the side pane.
Google just added an audio listening feature to Google Docs powered by Gemini, letting users hear their documents read aloud with natural-sounding voices and adjustable speeds. You can find "Listen to this tab" under Tools > Audio, though rollout is currently limited to Workspace business, enterprise, and Gemini add-on tiers.
OpenAI just tweaked GPT-5's personality to make conversations feel warmer and more approachable after feedback that it felt too stiff. The update introduces subtle touches like "Good question" without increasing sycophancy, according to internal testing. The rollout takes up to a day to complete.
Google just introduced Flight Deals, a conversational AI feature inside Google Flights. Instead of constantly toggling dates and filters, travelers can describe their dream trip in plain English, and the tool finds matching bargain flights across airlines. It rolls out in beta over the next week.
Sam Altman just addressed the backlash over GPT-5's recent launch, admitting OpenAI "totally screwed up" aspects of the rollout and bringing back 4o for paid subscribers. He revealed ChatGPT now reaches 700 million weekly users, while warning that investors are overexcited and the industry is currently in an AI bubble.
Anthropic just gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to actively shut down conversations in extreme cases of persistent abuse or harmful requests. The feature stems from the company's exploratory research into AI welfare, giving models an exit when redirection fails. Users hit with a cutoff can't message that thread anymore, though they can still start new chats.
Anthropic just rolled out new learning modes across Claude.ai and Claude Code. Instead of spitting out instant solutions, the AI now takes a Socratic approach to walk you through concepts, and its coding assistant will even drop #TODO tags for you to fill in yourself. Both modes are available to all users for free.
