Uber is moving further beyond ride-hailing with one of its biggest pushes yet into travel, shopping, delivery, and artificial intelligence. At its sixth annual GO-GET product showcase in New York, the company announced a wide range of features designed to turn Uber into a broader everyday platform. The updates include hotel bookings, AI-powered voice ride booking, expanded Uber One travel benefits, personal shopping, food pickups during premium rides, Travel Mode, and a redes

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are heading into one of the most closely watched legal battles in the artificial intelligence world, as Musk’s long-running lawsuit against OpenAI finally moves to trial. The case begins with jury selection in Oakland, California, before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, with opening arguments expected shortly after. Musk, Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are all listed among the possible witnesses. At

BMO is expanding its technology ambitions with a new enterprise wide initiative focused on artificial intelligence and quantum computing, highlighting how seriously major banks are treating the future of innovation. The bank has launched the BMO Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence & Quantum, a new organization that will oversee AI innovation, application, governance, and the development of quantum capabilities across the business. BMO says the institute is meant to

CoLab’s multimillion-dollar artificial intelligence partnership with Bombardier Inc. represents a major advancement in the application of AI within aerospace engineering and manufacturing, demonstrating how the technology is increasingly being embedded into real industrial operations rather than remaining in experimental stages. Announced in April 2026, the agreement focuses on deploying CoLab’s engineering-focused AI systems across Bombardier’s business jet design and produc

Meta is reportedly developing an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg that could interact with employees, answer questions, give feedback, and potentially attend meetings in his place. The digital clone is said to be trained on Zuckerberg’s voice, image, mannerisms, tone, and years of public statements so employees can still feel connected to the founder even when he is not physically present. For a company with nearly 79,000 workers across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality

Meta and Microsoft are the latest major technology companies to show how deeply artificial intelligence is reshaping the industry. Meta announced that it will cut about 8,000 workers, which is around 10 percent of its workforce, as the company continues pouring money into AI infrastructure and expensive AI talent. The cuts are being presented as part of a larger effort to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and create more room for new investments in other parts of the business

Google is significantly expanding its Workspace suite with new artificial intelligence features designed to transform everyday office work into a more automated and assistant-driven experience. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2026, the updates introduce deeper AI integration across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, and other Workspace tools, aiming to reduce repetitive administrative work and allow employees to focus more on analysis, creativity, and decision-making. The company fra

OpenAI has launched a major expansion of ChatGPT with the introduction of workspace agents, a system designed to move artificial intelligence beyond simple conversational assistance into fully autonomous, task-executing tools for organizations. Announced on April 22, 2026, the update allows teams to create shared AI agents that can manage complex, multi-step workflows across departments while operating within defined organizational permissions, controls, and security framewor

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the job search, but not always in the way people expected. While AI tools can help job seekers create stronger resumes and cover letters more quickly, employers are finding that the same technology is making hiring slower, noisier, and harder to manage. What was supposed to streamline recruiting has instead created a surge of polished, keyword rich applications that often look impressive on paper but do not always reflect a candidate’s rea

Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, is quickly becoming one of the most closely watched developments in technology because of what it could mean for cybersecurity, banking, and the wider global economy. Introduced earlier this month as the company’s most advanced model yet, Mythos was built for defensive cybersecurity tasks, but experts say its capabilities go well beyond normal threat detection. Anthropic has said the model uncovered thousands of major vulnerabilities across m

New research is raising a striking possibility in artificial intelligence: emotionally charged conversations may shape how AI systems behave, even if those systems do not literally feel emotions. Across recent commentary and research from Anthropic, experts argue that large language models can develop internal representations of emotion concepts that influence their decisions, preferences, and outputs. This does not mean chatbots experience emotions the way humans do, but it

Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities in one of healthcare’s most urgent areas: detecting heart failure before it becomes a serious and potentially life threatening condition. Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed an AI tool that can predict a person’s risk of developing heart failure at least five years before it happens, giving doctors a much earlier chance to monitor patients, intervene, and possibly prevent the condition altogether. Hear

Canada is preparing to launch a new hybrid weather forecasting model that combines artificial intelligence with traditional forecasting methods, a move that could significantly improve how the country predicts severe weather. Environment and Climate Change Canada says the new system will begin rolling out this spring and is designed to give Canadians earlier and more accurate warnings when major weather events are approaching. At a time when the country is experiencing more e

Meta has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model called Muse Spark, marking its first major AI release since the company reorganized its strategy and made a multibillion dollar push to catch up with rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The new model is being presented as an important turning point for Meta after the disappointing rollout of its earlier Llama 4 models, which failed to gain strong traction with developers. Now, with Alexandr Wang leading the company’

Anthropic has introduced one of the most unsettling developments in artificial intelligence this year with Claude Mythos Preview, a model the company says is too dangerous for public release. Instead of launching it broadly, Anthropic has decided to keep Mythos off the market because of its extraordinary cybersecurity capabilities. The company says the model is so effective at finding severe software vulnerabilities that it could become a powerful tool for cybercriminals, spi

Matei Zaharia, the Databricks co founder and chief technology officer, is once again at the center of a major conversation in tech. This time, it is not only because he won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing, one of the field’s most respected honors, but also because of the bold claim he made alongside that recognition: artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is already here. His comments have added fresh energy to one of the most debated questions in artificial intelligence, e

Google has quietly entered the fast-growing AI dictation market with a new iPhone app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, and its biggest advantage is that it works offline. The free iOS app uses local speech recognition models from Google’s Gemma family, letting users speak into their phones and receive polished text without needing a constant internet connection. That makes the launch especially notable in a market crowded with startup products, because Google is bringing a maj

Bluesky is taking a new step into artificial intelligence with the launch of Attie, a standalone app designed to help users shape their social media experience in a more personal way. Unveiled at the company’s Atmosphere conference, Attie is not another social platform but an AI assistant built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, the app allows users to create custom feeds by simply typing what they want in natural language, turning feed building into som

The publishing world is facing a growing problem that feels both immediate and unsettling: books suspected of being written with artificial intelligence are already slipping into the market, and many in the industry are not confident they can stop it. That anxiety exploded with the controversy surrounding Shy Girl , a horror novel by Mia Ballard that was first self published in February 2025, later released in the UK in November 2025, and then set for a US publication before

Big Tech has started telling a very specific story about layoffs: artificial intelligence is making companies leaner, faster, and less dependent on human labour. In recent months, firms including Amazon, Meta, Pinterest, and Atlassian have linked job cuts to AI driven productivity gains, while executives such as Mark Zuckerberg have framed 2026 as a turning point for how work will fundamentally change. The message is simple and powerful. AI is no longer just a tool for experi