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Jony Ive joins OpenAI on breakthrough hardware project

Jony Ive and Sam Altman are teaming up for a great hardware challenge.
The Apple design guru is teaming up with OpenAI to solve a great challenge. (Picture: OpenAI)
He has been working with the company for eighteen months on the frontier of modern hardware design; the standalone AI product.

Citing significant progress already done, Sam Altman says «I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,» according to The Washington Post.

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Google pairs with Warby Parker for AI-enabled, smart glasses

Gemini will see and hear everything you do with these Andoird XR glasses
Google showcased the glasses on stage at Google I/O, highlighting their translation capacity. (Picture: Google)
Easy to miss the torrent of AI news at Google I/O was a demo of their upcoming AI-powered smart glasses, expected «after 2025.»

The glasses pair with Gemini on your phone, has an in-lens display, camera, ear buds and microphones and can show you your Android apps.

More importantly, though, is the integration with the AI. The glasses become Gemini’s eyes and ears and will see all you see and listen to conversations around you.

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Google rolls out AI Mode in US, during AI feast at Google I/O

Google debuts AI Mode, Gemini for Chrome and lots more at I/O this year
So much news. Google brings a firehose of new AI features to Google I/O. (Picture: Google Imagen 4)
Google’s I/O conference kicked off with a tsunami of AI news last night. Clearly, the company is going all-in on artificial intelligence, and is using all the levers in its power to promote it — even in Chrome.

The most important news they presented is AI Mode going live in the USA, using what is likely the most valuable screen real estate on the planet — Google’s front page — to leverage the new AI search feature. It’s been in testing for about a week.

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Microsoft NLWeb tools offer easy AI search for any website

NLWeb is touted as a revolution, but it's catching on just yet.
NLWeb will turn search queries into chatbots, but uptake is not revolutionary, just yet. (Picture: Microsoft)
According to Microsoft, it’s the biggest thing on the web since HTML, leveraging easy code to include on websites and turning them into an AI chatbot app.

This should let websites easily tune into the revolution of AI search, allowing for natural language processing right from the search bar, says Microsoft.

Natural language process as revolution
This is fourth revolution in computers, says Ramanathan V. Guha, a technical fellow at Microsoft, — being able to communicate with applications, and computers in general, with free-form language, to The Verge.

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OpenAI debuts Codex, an AI coding agent, further disrupting the software industry

Codex can run your code multiple times until it finds the best version.
Codex can run your code multiple times until til finds the best version. (Picture: OpenAI)
In a world where 30% of Big Tech code is written by AI already, OpenAI says it wants to join the club for «virtual teammates,» and it’s getting ever closer with today’s launch.

OpenAI’s Agents Research Lead, Josh Tobin tells TechCrunch that the company wants software agents to complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, in anything from one to thirty minutes, and OpenAI is already using the model to offload repetitive tasks.

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Apple reportedly has ChatGPT-level AI for Siri in the works

Apple might improve with its own LLM chatbot, says reports.
Apple is still playing catch-up in the LLM market, but that may change soon, according to recent reports. (Picture: Apple)
In an article mainly about how Apple got AI and LLMs so wrong, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a noted Apple-watcher, also notes a few things it’s getting right.

One of those is the significant progress it is having during testing of an AI chatbot version of Apple’s personal Siri assistant, developed by a team in Zurich.

MacRumors reports that Apple is testing a completely new architecture — not the current patchwork Siri that punts to ChatGPT — but a standalone LLM designed to eventually replace Siri outright.

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«Intimate» AI deepfakes are now illegal in the USA

Donald Trump signed the new deepfake law yesterday afternoon.
After years of political wrangling, sexual deepfakes are finally unlawful in the USA. (Picture: DreamStudio (CC BY 2.0))
It sure took a while and some harrowing experiences, but the deepfake “industry” just took a body blow last evening.

The penalties for making nonconsensual sexual deepfakes now include up to three years in prison, and websites will have 48 hours to remove reported content — and copies of it.

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Every chip designer will have a thousand AI agents, says Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang sees great opportunities for AI agents in chip design. (Picture: screenshot)
Jensen Huang sees great opportunities for AI agents in chip design. (Picture: screenshot)
Nvidia is already known for leading the charge in chip design for AI applications, and CEO Jensen Huang has a few bold ideas about where agentic AI is taking us.

In a May 15 on-stage interview with Cadence CEO Anirudh Devgan at CadenceLIVE 2025, Huang reflected on the future of chip design—and offered a glimpse into how cutting-edge companies are thinking about AI’s next phase.

Much like how software engineers today increasingly rely on AI coding tools—and soon, autonomous agents—Huang envisions every chip and systems engineer being supported by “assistant chip designers” that help with everyday tasks:

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Meta delays flagship Behemoth model due to performance issues

Prescient words from Facebook's developer conference in 2017.
Prescient words from Meta’s developer conference in 2017. (Picture: Anthony Quintano (CC BY 2.0))
The 2 trillion parameter model was teased at the launch of Llama 4 in early April, and was slated for a release at the LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference in late April.

Now it seems following internal dismay at the model’s performance, it was delayed until June, and has just been postponed again until sometime in the fall or later, writes Reuters.

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Google unveils AlphaEvolve, an AI model for algorithm discovery

Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve can even improve on its own hardware.
Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve can even improve on itself. (Picture: Google)
The model is already at work and producing savings internally at Google, having discovered more efficient algorithms and better hardware solutions.

— AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that is able to make new discoveries in computing and mathematics, says Matej Balog, a researcher at Google DeepMind, to VentureBeat.

Google doesn’t say when the model will be available to the general public, but is planning on working with certain scientists and is «exploring» a broader release.

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ChatGPT 4.1 now available in the app and web

OpenAIs coding model was launched in the API only on April 14th, and reduced costs compared to GPT 4.5.

It also comes with a large context window of 1 million «tokens.» These are compute units that roughly translates to 750,000 words — so this model can read and output very large files or codebases.

It should be available under the model selector menu by clicking on «More models.»

UPDATE: It seems that without announcement of fanfare, free users on ChatGPT.com now get 4.1-mini as the new default model, a step up from the previous 4o-mini.

Despite some reports, GPT-4.1 does not appear to be the default for paid users—ChatGPT Plus still opens with GPT-4o as standard

Read more: OpenAI’s model release notes, Ars Technica bemoans model confusion, Teknotum on the 4.1 launch.

Google is testing «AI Mode» directly on the front page

Google is experimenting with replacing the "I'm Feeling Lucky"-button with "AI Mode."
Can you spot the difference? Google is experimenting with a change on the front page. (Picture: screenshot)
Replacing the time honored «I’m Feeling lucky,» select users now see «AI Mode» instead.

By doing this, albeit in their Labs section, Google shows they are considering using some of the most valuable screen real estate on the planet to further promote its Gemini AI models.

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UN meets on rules for autonomous AI weapons

The AI-powered XQ58-Valkyrie flies alongside us fighter jets.
Autonomous systems pose a challenge to the rules of war, and the UN is trying to reach an agreement. (Picture. Department of Defence)
As more and more AI robots and drones are deployed to the battlefields of the world, the talks are taking on a new urgency.

The UN Secretary General has set a deadline for 2026 to reach an agreement on so-called «killer robots,» while great powers resist.

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Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»

Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused.
Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused. (Picture: Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0)
In the Google antitrust remedies trial, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said they are «actively looking at» using AI search tools in Safari, writes Gizmodo.

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Google drops new Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, says it excels at coding

Google wants their new Gemini model to be the «go-to model» for devs.
Google wants their new Gemini model to be the «go-to model» for devs. (Picture: Google)
The Lmarena leaderboard has a new top contender, after Google launched its new, most advanced reasoning model last night.

Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.

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