Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just revealed that Google plans to merge its Gemini foundation models with its Veo video generator to give AI a better grasp of the physical world. Hassabis noted that Veo learned real-world physics by watching heaps of YouTube videos. Combining the two moves Google closer to a true universal digital assistant that actually understands reality.
Canva just rolled out a major expansion of its creative suite, introducing the Canva AI assistant, automated spreadsheets, and interactive coding tools. Powered by Anthropic, the new Canva Code lets creators prompt mini-apps like calculators and maps right into their designs. Why it matters: Canva is pushing past static graphics to become a full-blown interactive design platform.
OpenAI just started rolling out an upgraded memory feature for ChatGPT that lets it tailor answers using context from your past conversations. You won't have to re-explain your preferences or background every time, and it covers text, voice, and image generation. It's rolling out first to Plus and Pro subscribers outside the EU and UK.
Microsoft just celebrated its 50th birthday, bringing Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella onstage together for the first time in a decade to bet the company's next 50 years on AI. Alongside demos of Copilot Vision and screen analysis, the high-energy talk-show event was repeatedly interrupted by employee protests over military contracts.
xAI just released the API for its flagship Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini reasoning models. Standard Grok 3 matches Claude 3.7 Sonnet pricing at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with faster tiers available. Notably, the API maxes out at a 131,072 tokens context window, falling short of the 1 million tokens xAI promised in February.
Samsung just announced that its yellow rolling robot, Ballie, will finally launch in the US this summer. First shown off in 2020, the dual-wheeled bot now packs Google's Gemini multimodal AI alongside a built-in projector, letting it critique your outfit or project movies on your wall. Why it matters: Unlike Amazon's ill-fated Astro, Ballie brings real conversational AI and practical projection into your living room, though Samsung has yet to reveal the price tag.
Reddit just rolled out Reddit Answers, an AI search tool powered by Google's Gemini models on Vertex AI. Instead of digging through endless comment threads, users can ask questions directly and get synthesized summaries with sourced posts, relevant subreddits, and follow-up chat support.
Anthropic just rolled out Claude Max, a new subscription tier running between $100 and $200 per month designed to cure users' rate-limit headaches. The $100 tier grants 5x the usage of Claude Pro, while the $200 tier jumps to a massive 20x. It is specifically aimed at power users who quickly eat through context windows with massive codebases and long documents.
Google just introduced Workspace Flows, an agentic AI system that lets users automate multi-step business workflows across apps using natural language and custom Gems. Google is also bringing NotebookLM-style audio overviews and writing coaches to Docs, automated analysis to Sheets, and Veo 2 video generation to Vids. Most new tools are currently rolling out to alpha testers.
Google just rolled out Deep Research powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental for Gemini Advanced subscribers. The upgrade improves analytical reasoning and synthesis, outperforming rival deep research tools by a 2-to-1 margin in testing, while also supporting podcast-style Audio Overviews of generated reports.
LMSYS just dropped over 2,000 battle logs for Llama-4 on Arena and took aim at Meta for transparency issues. The evaluation platform revealed that Meta failed to disclose its experimental Maverick model was heavily tuned to game human preference prompts, prompting an immediate overhaul of leaderboard policies.
Google just brought multimodal image search to AI Mode, letting users snap or upload photos to get detailed answers backed by web links. The update pairs a custom Gemini model with Google Lens and a fan-out query technique to dissect complex scenes. It is currently rolling out to millions of US Labs users on Android and iOS.
Microsoft just brought Copilot Vision to mobile devices, allowing the AI assistant to see and interpret real-world surroundings through your phone camera. It can analyze plant health or offer room styling advice in real time, though it is currently limited to U.S. Copilot Pro subscribers inside the app's Voice mode.
A Meta AI insider just blew the whistle on Llama 4, claiming the model lagged far behind rival open-source models and leadership pushed to blend benchmarks into post-training to fake results. The researcher submitted their resignation in protest and claimed Meta's VP of AI also stepped down for the same reason.
Anthropic's Chief Scientist Jared Kaplan just revealed that Claude 4 will arrive "in the next six months or so." Kaplan noted that post-training and RL are compressing AI cycles even faster than hardware upgrades, showing zero signs of a slowdown.
Microsoft just launched a browser-playable tech demo of Quake II generated by its Muse AI model for Copilot users. The demo runs at 640 x 360 without requiring the original game engine. While gameplay remains blurry and time-limited, it shows how AI could preserve and port classic games to modern hardware.
Meta just unveiled Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, marking its official pivot to open-weight, natively multimodal mixture-of-experts architectures. Both models operate on 17B active parameters, with Scout pushing context windows to a massive 10 million tokens, while an upcoming 2T-parameter teacher model, Behemoth, trains in the background.
Microsoft just overhauled Copilot with persistent memory, real-world vision on mobile, and agentic Actions that book tickets and dinner reservations across the web. The update also brings a native Windows app accessible via Alt+Space, AI-generated podcasts, and Deep Research. Microsoft is shifting Copilot from a generic chat widget into a deeply customized assistant that acts on your behalf.
GitHub just rolled out Agent mode and MCP support to all VS Code users, turning Copilot into an autonomous developer that edits multiple files, runs terminal commands, and self-heals runtime bugs. It also opened access to Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0, alongside a new $39-a-month Pro+ plan.
Sam Altman just announced a change of plans at OpenAI: the company will release o3 and o4-mini in a couple of weeks, pushing GPT-5 back by a few months. Altman explained that smoothly integrating everything proved harder than expected, but the delay will make GPT-5 significantly better while securing enough compute capacity for unprecedented demand.
