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

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

Discord has switched on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call, with no opt-in required. The DAVE protocol means not even Discord can listen in.

SpaceX expects to close its $60 billion Cursor acquisition in July, roughly 30 days after its record-breaking Nasdaq IPO. A $10 billion breakup fee backs the deal.

H2O.ai unveiled tabH2O at Dell Technologies World 2026, a foundation model that generates predictions from tabular data in seconds with no model training required.

Google unveils Daily Brief, Neural Expressive redesign, and Spark AI agent for Gemini's 900 million users at I/O 2026, sharpening its fight with ChatGPT and Claude.

Analog Devices agrees to acquire Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, adding integrated voltage regulators that cut AI data-centre power use by 20%.

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.

Google unveiled its biggest Search redesign in 25 years at I/O 2026, introducing information agents, generative UI, and mini-apps powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Google unveils Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026 with multi-agent orchestration, a new CLI tool, an SDK for custom agents, and a $100/month AI Ultra plan.

Google's stable Android CLI 1.0 gives AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity direct access to Android Studio's toolchain from the command line.

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash runs 4x faster than rival frontier models and can autonomously build software for hours. Here's what it means for the agentic AI race.