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May 20, 2026

Gemini launches video creation, daily briefs, and voice control for Gmail; ChatGPT improves AI content identification

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Gemini launched new creative tools, a personalized daily brief, and voice control for your inbox, while ChatGPT improved how you can identify AI-generated cont…

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GeminiGemini now lets you create videos from anything, get a personalized daily summary, and talk to your…

Gemini

Gemini

You can now use Gemini Omni to create videos by combining images, audio, video, and text, and it will intelligently blend them into a consistent output.

When Google launched Gemini three years ago , the goal was to build a multimodal large language model — a single neural network that was trained on text, image, audio, and video and could generate content in any of those formats. | Today, at its Google I/O developer conference , the company took a concrete step toward that goal with Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that Google CEO Sundar Pichai says wi… When Google launched Gemini three years ago , the goal was to build a multimodal large language model — a single neural network that was trained on text, image, audio, and video and could generate content in any of those formats. Today, at its Google I/O developer conference , the company took a concrete step toward that goal with Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that Google CEO Sundar Pichai says will be able to “create anything from any input.” Omni will start with video. Users can now combine images, audio, video, and text, and rather than simply…

Source · Google's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video
Source · Google's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video

Gemini

The Gemini app now has a "Daily Brief" feature that gives you a personalized summary of information from your inbox, calendar, and important tasks each morning.

At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday , Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni ,… | Google describes the new Daily Brief feature as a personalized digest designed to be your first stop each morning. It pulls together information from a user’s inbox, cale… At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday , Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni ,… Google describes the new Daily Brief feature as a personalized digest designed to be your first stop each morning. It pulls together information from a user’s inbox, calendar, and most important tasks, and then organizes them into a… The Gemini app already has considerable reach: The company said it has more than 900 million…

Source · Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026
Source · Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026

Gemini

You can now talk to your Gmail inbox and Google Keep, asking questions and getting responses, just like a conversation.

8220;Gmail Live can answer naturally phrased questions, respond to follow-up questions, and pivot if you need to interrupt it,” Devanshi Bhandari, product lead for Gmail, explained in a briefing ahead of Google’s annual develop… | It’s another way that Google is trying to showcase how its AI technology can drive real-world improvements to products used by millions of consumers, at a time when many… 8220;Gmail Live can answer naturally phrased questions, respond to follow-up questions, and pivot if you need to interrupt it,” Devanshi Bhandari, product lead for Gmail, explained in a briefing ahead of Google’s annual develop… It’s another way that Google is trying to showcase how its AI technology can drive real-world improvements to products used by millions of consumers, at a time when many outside the tech industry are questioning the value of AI, as n… Similar voice technology is also coming to its to-do list, Google Keep, the company noted.…

Source · You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026
Source · You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026
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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

OpenAI is improving how you can tell if media is AI-generated with new tools like Content Credentials and SynthID, making it easier to trust what you see.

OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media. ChatGPT is making it easier to tell if media was made by AI, helping you trust what you see online. OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media. OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media. OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media. ChatGPT is making it easier to tell if media was made by AI, helping you trust what you see online.

Source · Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem
Source · Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem

Claude Code

Claude Code

AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan

AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan | AI Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 Ivan Mehta | In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own Antigravity or Gemini… AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan AI Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 Ivan Mehta In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own Antigravity or Gemini in Android Stud… AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan AI Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an… AI…

Source · Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google's release of Android CLI | TechCrunch
Source · Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google's release of Android CLI | TechCrunch

Claude

Claude

At Anthropic, we want to build AI systems that advance humanity and act for the global good. To do so, we need to engage with those who see the world from a variety of different perspectives.

At Anthropic, we want to build AI systems that advance humanity and act for the global good. To do so, we need to engage with those who see the world from a variety of different perspectives. | Over the past several months, we’ve been organizing dialogues with groups whose work and traditions bear on the questions raised by AI. Our first round of discussions has been with wisdom traditions—including scholars, clergy… At Anthropic, we want to build AI systems that advance humanity and act for the global good. To do so, we need to engage with those who see the world from a variety of different perspectives. Over the past several months, we’ve been organizing dialogues with groups whose work and traditions bear on the questions raised by AI. Our first round of discussions has been with wisdom traditions—including scholars, clergy, philosophers… Building safe, beneficial AI models requires deep technical work on alignment, interpretability, safeguards, evaluations, and more. But that…

Source · Widening the conversation on frontier AI
Source · Widening the conversation on frontier AI

Claude

Anthropic is also naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity, and the two companies will build new Claude-powered products together for PE portfolio companies.

As part of this alliance, KPMG is embedding Claude inside Digital Gateway, the software KPMG's people and clients use to do the actual work—starting with new tools for tax and legal clients. And every one of KPMG's 276,000+ emplo… | Anthropic is also naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity, and the two companies will build new Claude-powered products together for PE portfolio companies. | KPMG h… As part of this alliance, KPMG is embedding Claude inside Digital Gateway, the software KPMG's people and clients use to do the actual work—starting with new tools for tax and legal clients. And every one of KPMG's 276,000+ emplo… Anthropic is also naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity, and the two companies will build new Claude-powered products together for PE portfolio companies. KPMG helps organizations in various industries work together to transform, innovate, and effectively compete in tomorrow’s fast-changing world. Integrating AI across…

Source · KPMG integrates Claude across its core business and workforce of more than 276,000 in strategic alliance
Source · KPMG integrates Claude across its core business and workforce of more than 276,000 in strategic alliance

Claude

Anthropic created MCP to make agent connectivity possible. By bringing together the Stainless and Anthropic teams, the Claude Platform continues to push the frontier of developer experience and agent connectivity.

The frontier of AI is shifting from models that answer to agents that act—and agents are only as capable as the systems they can reach. Today, Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a leader in SDKs and MCP server tooling, to extend that reach… | Founded in 2022, Stainless has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Hundreds of companies rely on Stainless to generate SDK… The frontier of AI is shifting from models that answer to agents that act—and agents are only as capable as the systems they can reach. Today, Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a leader in SDKs and MCP server tooling, to extend that reach… Founded in 2022, Stainless has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Hundreds of companies rely on Stainless to generate SDKs, CLIs, and MCP servers—the libraries, command-line tools, an… Anthropic created MCP to make agent connectivity possible. By bringing together the Stainless…

Source · Anthropic acquires Stainless
Source · Anthropic acquires Stainless

Perplexity

Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type | Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed | New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs. Learn more → Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control : Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter : Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog