Google has opened pre-orders for its new Google Home speaker, set to launch June 25. The device features a 360-degree audio design, recycled materials, and a new LED light ring. Its primary upgrade is the integration of Gemini as the main AI assistant, enabling more complex commands and better contextual understanding.
OpenAI's ChatGPT has fallen below a 50% market share in AI assistants for the first time, now holding 46.4% as of May 2026. Google's Gemini is its closest rival with 27.7%, followed by Anthropic's Claude at 10.3%.
ChatGPT's global market share has fallen below 50% for the first time, with users shifting to rivals like Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. Spending on AI apps is rising, but growth rates are slowing, indicating market maturation.
Meta previewed new features for its video editing app Edits, including an AI assistant for content ideas and a desktop version. The app also launched a 'Beta' tab and expanded audience insights to better compete with rivals like CapCut.
New MIT research suggests that relying on AI to evaluate news accuracy may decrease users' ability to spot misinformation independently over time, potentially creating cognitive dependency.
The European Commission has ordered Meta to provide competitors' AI assistants free access to its messaging and social media platforms, citing antitrust concerns. Meta faces potential fines if it fails to comply with the interim measure, which aims to preserve consumer choice and competition in the AI market.
EU antitrust regulators have ordered Meta to provide rival AI companies, including OpenAI, free access to WhatsApp. The move aims to investigate claims that Meta abused its market position by blocking competitors while favoring its own AI assistant.
Meta is rolling out an AI creator assistant on Facebook in the US, Canada, and India. The tool provides personalized recommendations, answers questions about performance and audience, and suggests content ideas based on trends, aiming to boost creator engagement and retention against rivals.
MoonPay launched MoonAgents, a desktop app connecting AI models like Claude and ChatGPT to crypto wallets and blockchain services. It aims to enhance security by storing private keys locally and encrypting them, preventing AI access.
Alibaba's Qwen app is opening its ecosystem to third-party agents, with KFC, Luckin Coffee, Mixue Group, and China Eastern Airlines among the first to test the feature. Users can interact with these agents for services like ordering food or planning travel.
Users report AI assistants like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Kimi are becoming less capable, forgetting instructions, and making more errors. Experts cite commercial pressures, rising costs, and strained computing resources as primary reasons for this perceived 'dumbing down' or 'laziness'.
Microsoft, OpenClaw'dan ilham alan kişisel yapay zeka asistanı Scout'u tanıttı. Scout, kullanıcıları daha iyi anlamak ve kişiselleştirilmiş kararlar almak için tasarlanmıştır.
Microsoft has launched Scout, a new AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365, built on the OpenClaw framework. Scout is an always-on agentic assistant designed to adapt to user needs and learn persistent skills, requiring a GitHub Copilot subscription and featuring built-in security protections.
A new benchmark, Claw-Anything, tests AI personal assistants on realistic, long-horizon tasks across multiple devices and services, revealing poor performance (e.g., GPT-5.5 scored 34.5%) due to complexity and noise in simulated user activity.
Robinhood introduces AI-driven tools, Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card, allowing retail investors to automate stock trading and purchases with third-party AI agents, despite raising safety concerns for less sophisticated traders.
IrisGo, a startup backed by AI Fund, Nvidia, and Google, is developing a proactive AI desktop companion that learns user workflows to automate tasks, aiming to free up knowledge workers from repetitive clerical duties.
Google's Gemini Spark is a new AI agent that proactively manages personal information and tasks, aiming to automate daily activities. It will launch next week in beta for subscribers to Google's AI plan.
Google announced at its I/O conference that its Android CLI is now stable and will offer tools for AI agents, including those from competitors like OpenAI, to accelerate Android app development.
Google is piloting a new software engineering interview format allowing candidates to use its Gemini AI assistant during technical rounds, reflecting the growing influence of AI in development and aiming to assess "AI fluency."
Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping, integrating Alexa Plus into its platform, offering enhanced AI-powered shopping assistance with capabilities like price alerts, comparisons, and auto-purchasing across Amazon and other websites.
Google launched Gemini Intelligence, a feature suite that aims to turn Android devices into proactive AI assistants.
Alibaba Group Holding is integrating its flagship AI assistant Qwen into its biggest e-commerce platforms, betting that the future of online shopping lies in fluid conversations rather than rigid search terms. Using the Qwen app, shoppers are able to find, compare and purchase products from Taobao and Tmall’s 4-billion-item inventory via text or voice chat, Alibaba said in a statement on Monday. Taobao has also launched a Qwen-powered shopping assistant, which was trained on the platform’s...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is preparing an overhaul of how local consumers shop online, betting that the next trend will feel more like chatting with an artificial intelligence chatbot rather than typing keywords into a search bar, according to a source. Users of the company’s flagship AI assistant Qwen – one of the most popular in China – would soon be able to use natural language to “talk” with the chatbot app to find and buy items listed on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is preparing an overhaul of how local consumers shop online, betting that the next trend will feel more like chatting with an artificial intelligence chatbot rather than typing keywords into a search bar. Users of the company’s flagship AI assistant Qwen – one of the most popular in China – would soon be able to use natural language to “talk” with the chatbot app to find and buy items listed on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms,...
