ocean raises $28m to fight ai-powered phishing
ocean, an agentic email security startup, emerged from stealth with $28 million to detect ai-generated phishing attacks using a custom small language model.
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google launches ai design app pics at io 2026
google unveils pics, an ai design app for workspace that generates and edits images from text prompts, competing with canva and claude design.
talk to your gmail inbox with gemini ai
google adds conversational ai to gmail, letting users ask questions aloud to find buried information like flight details or appointment times.
musk trial reveals his own openai conflicts
court testimony showed elon musk used openai researchers for tesla without reimbursement, undercutting his lawsuit claims.
google search gets ai agents that work 24/7
google introduces customizable ai agents in search that continuously monitor topics and send push notifications, moving beyond one-time queries.
google workspace adds voice ai, image tool, and agent
google announces conversational voice features in gmail, docs, and keep, a new image creation app called google pics, updates to ai inbox, and a personal ai agent named gemini spark.
gemini 3.5 flash brings agentic ai to billions
google releases gemini 3.5 flash, a fast frontier model for coding and agentic tasks, available now in search and the gemini app.
google io 2026 gemini agent era
google announces gemini 3.5 flash, gemini spark agent, and new ai features across products at io 2026.
andrej karpathy joins anthropic's pre-training team
ai researcher andrej karpathy moves to anthropic to work on pre-training, aiming to use claude to speed up research.
anthropic buys stainless, cutting off rival ai labs from key dev tools
anthropic acquires stainless, the sdk automation startup used by openai, google, and cloudflare, and will shut down its hosted products.
sandboxaq puts drug discovery ai into claude
sandboxaq integrates its physics-grounded quantitative models into anthropic's claude, letting researchers run complex simulations through plain language prompts.
musk loses openai lawsuit on statute of limitations
a california jury found elon musk's claims against openai and sam altman were filed too late, removing a major legal threat before openai's reported ipo.
alexa+ can now generate podcast episodes on demand
amazon's alexa+ gets a new feature that creates ai-generated podcast episodes from any topic, with customizable length and tone.
letinar builds thin optics for ai glasses
south korean startup letinar develops pintilt lens tech to make ai smart glasses thinner, lighter, and more power-efficient.
siri revamp may auto-delete chats for privacy
apple plans a privacy-focused siri relaunch with auto-deleting conversations and a standalone app powered by google gemini.
trust becomes central issue in musk-openai trial
closing arguments in the elon musk vs openai trial focused on whether ceo sam altman is trustworthy, reflecting wider industry concerns about ai lab transparency.
students boo ai mentions at 2026 commencements
graduates at ucf and university of arizona loudly rejected speakers praising artificial intelligence, reflecting wider job market anxiety.
ai skills arms race hits automotive
automakers are swapping traditional it staff for ai specialists, reshaping the workforce and creating new data-driven products.