Google has announced Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator powered by Nano Banana 2, with precision-editing controls and Slides/Drive integration.

Google has launched Gemini Omni Flash, a new multimodal video-generation model from DeepMind that creates and edits video conversationally from image, audio, video, and text inputs, with SynthID ...

Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal offering rival AI chatbots free WhatsApp access in Europe up to a usage cap, then a per-message fee. The Commission is reviewing it under the ...

Alibaba's T-Head chip unit has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, its highest-spec AI accelerator yet, and said the chip is now in 'scaled mass production' as China accelerates its domestic NVIDIA-alternative ...

RemotePass has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, with 500 Global joining alongside returning investors.

Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-coworker company built by ex-Meta engineers, has raised a $75m Series A led by Accel.

CircuitHub has raised $28m led by Plural to expand its automated PCB-manufacturing 'Grid' factories across Europe and the US.

Panasonic buys UK media server company HIVE Media Control, gaining the BeeBlade platform to expand beyond hardware into integrated visual solutions under its MEVIX brand.

Eric Schmidt was booed at the University of Arizona. Gloria Caulfield was booed at UCF. The framing called it generational confusion. The numbers say it was generational accuracy.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic to build a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research.

Google unveils Pics at I/O 2026, an AI-powered design tool built into Workspace that generates graphics from text prompts, challenging Canva and Claude Design.

OpenAI joins the C2PA standard and partners with Google to embed invisible SynthID watermarks, creating a dual-layer system to identify AI-generated images.