Apple announced Monday a multi-year agreement to use Google's Gemini models to power Siri. Anthropic announced yesterday that they have a new model tier above Opus. Continue Reading →
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Apple unveiled a major overhaul of its AI strategy at WWDC 2026, centered on a rebuilt Siri and a broad expansion of Apple Intelligence across its ecosystem. The announcement comes two years after Apple first introduced plans for a more capable Siri that never fully materialized. Continue Reading →
Google launched "Personal Intelligence," a beta feature that connects the Gemini app to your personal digital footprint (Gmail, Photos, YouTube history, and Search data). The goal is better, more personalized AI assistance. Continue Reading →
Apple and Google yesterday announced a multi-year partnership that puts Google's Gemini at the heart of Apple Intelligence, including an upgraded Siri coming this spring. Apple also evaluated OpenAI and Anthropic, but chose Google. That tells you everything you need to know about where the AI industry stands in January 2026. Continue Reading →
Google released Gemini 3 yesterday with immediate availability across its entire ecosystem. The company says the model sets new performance benchmarks: Gemini 3 scored 37.4 on Humanity's Last Exam, the highest on record and substantially above GPT-5 Pro's 31.64. It topped the LMArena leaderboard for user satisfaction and introduced generative UI capabilities that create interactive interfaces, not just text responses. Continue Reading →
Apple has finally admitted what the rest of us have known for years: Siri is terrible. According to reports from MacRumors and Bloomberg, Apple has struck a deal with Google to integrate the Gemini AI model directly into Siri and future iOS releases. After more than a decade of living in last place among voice assistants, Siri is about to borrow someone else’s brain. Continue Reading →
This week, Google quietly rolled out a new experimental feature called Web Guide. It lives in the Search Labs section and, for now, only affects results in the “Web” tab. However, if this moves into the main search experience, it will impact how people find content. Continue Reading →
Both OpenAI and Google DeepMind announced gold-medal performances at the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO) this week, correctly answering five out of six questions in one of the world's most challenging high school math competitions. The achievement marks a significant leap from Google's silver-medal performance last year and represents the first time AI systems competed using "informal" methods (processing questions in natural language) rather than requiring human translation into machine-readable code. Continue Reading →
Google has rolled out a new experimental reasoning AI model: Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental – the name kind of rolls off the tip of your tongue, doesn't it? – which is now available on its AI prototyping platform, AI Studio. Continue Reading →
As part of its 12 days of "shipmas," OpenAI has announced that its AI-powered search engine, SearchGPT, is now available to all users, both free and paid, starting today. This expansion follows the initial release in October, which was limited to paid subscribers. The search function is well-integrated into ChatGPT, and it's pretty useful. Continue Reading →