Microsoft Touts AI Sales at Town Hall, Reveals Barclays Contract

Microsoft Touts AI Sales at Town Hall, Reveals Barclays Contract

Microsoft touted its progress selling Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to corporate customers during a companywide town hall on Thursday, including a major deal with Barclays Plc. Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff told employees that Barclays agreed to buy 100,000 licenses for Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistants, according to people familiar with the event. Althoff also said … Read more

Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits

Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits

Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted that the model can … Read more

Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text

Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text

Google has announced SignGemma, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can translate sign language into spoken text. The model, which will be part of the Gemma series of models, is currently being tested by the Mountain View-based tech giant and is expected to be launched later this year. Similar to all the other Gemma … Read more

Opera Neon Agentic Browser Unveiled, Uses AI Agents to Plan Trips and Build Websites

Opera Neon Agentic Browser Unveiled, Uses AI Agents to Plan Trips and Build Websites

Opera Neon, the company’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) agent-powered browser, was unveiled on Tuesday. The Norwegian tech giant said that the new browser experience was being developed for the agentic web, and it reimagines how a browser looks and functions. It is focused on building AI-powered agentic workflows that either work alongside the user or … Read more

Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Gets Voice Mode Feature, Offers Real-Time Two-Way Conversations

Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Gets Voice Mode Feature, Offers Real-Time Two-Way Conversations

Anthropic is finally adding Voice Mode capability to its Claude chatbot. On Tuesday, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm announced the rollout of the real-time two-way voice conversation feature, which will be available in Claude’s mobile apps. Similar to its recently released web search feature, the company is late to the voice mode party, with major … Read more

Mistral Agents API With Web Search Tool and Improved Memory Function Announced

Mistral Agents API With Web Search Tool and Improved Memory Function Announced

Mistral announced its new Agents application programming interface (API) on Tuesday. The new API comes equipped with connectors for code execution, web search, image generation, as well as support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. These capabilities are powered by several artificial intelligence (AI) models, including the recently released Devstral as well as Black Forest … Read more

OnePlus 13s to Arrive With Support for OnePlus AI Suite; Plus Key Details Revealed Ahead of Launch

OnePlus 13s to Arrive With Support for OnePlus AI Suite; Plus Key Details Revealed Ahead of Launch

OnePlus 13s is set to launch in India on June 5 and the company unveiled OnePlus AI, it’s new artificial intelligence (AI) suite for its devices on Tuesday. The Chinese smartphone maker also revealed the functionalities of the new Plus Key, which is confirmed to debut on the upcoming OnePlus 13s. The hardware button can … Read more

OpenAI’s o3 Model Helps Researcher Uncover Zero-Day Vulnerability in Linux Kernel’s SMB Stack

OpenAI’s o3 Model Helps Researcher Uncover Zero-Day Vulnerability in Linux Kernel’s SMB Stack

OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model recently helped a cybersecurity researcher in uncovering a zero-day vulnerability in Linux. As per the researcher, the flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Server Message Block (SMB) implementation, also known as ksmbd. The previously unknown security flaw is said to be tricky to find since it involved multiple … Read more

Microsoft Testing New AI Features in MS Paint, Snipping Tool and Notepad

Microsoft Testing New AI Features in MS Paint, Snipping Tool and Notepad

Microsoft is testing several new artificial intelligence (AI) features for first-party apps in Windows 11. On Thursday, the Redmond-based tech giant announced that it is releasing a new update to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. The update is only for those with a Copilot+ PC. The update includes new features for MS … Read more

Jony Ive and OpenAI to Launch AI Device With Cameras; Mass Production Slated for 2027

Jony Ive and OpenAI to Launch AI Device With Cameras; Mass Production Slated for 2027

Following the acquisition of former Apple designer Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence (AI) hardware startup io by Sam Altman’s OpenAI on Wednesday, information has surfaced about the AI device these two companies might be developing. As per an industry analyst, it is currently in a prototype phase with a size slightly larger than the failed Humane’s Ai … Read more