DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Alex Rowland Waymo is updating the software in roughly 3,800 robotaxis in the United States after several autonomous vehicles drove into a flooded street in Austin, Texas. The issue was described in a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
By Daniel Mercer Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Incognito Chat, a new privacy-focused mode for Meta AI available on WhatsApp and the broader Meta AI platform. The feature is designed to give users a genuinely confidential space to interact with artificial intelligence — something Zuckerberg argues the industry has so far failed to deliver.
By Chris Borden Google is introducing new AI features for Android under Gemini Intelligence, designed to automate multi-step tasks, summarize web content, fill out forms, and turn spoken thoughts into clear text messages. Ahead of Google I/O, the company announced that the features will launch this summer on the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Google Pixel 10, with additional devices such as smartwatches, cars, glasses, and laptops to follow later in the year.
By Chris Borden Chinese robotics company Unitree has introduced what it claims is the world's first manned robot ready for mass production. The GD01 starts at $650,000 and weighs approximately 500 kg with a pilot on board.
By Chris Borden OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5-Cyber — a specialised variant of its flagship AI model designed for cybersecurity tasks, currently available to a limited group of developers.
By Chris Borden Baidu has introduced Ernie 5.1, a new language model that builds on the pretraining foundation of Ernie 5.0 while using a much smaller architecture.
By Alex Rowland A Bloomberg report shows how generative AI and autonomous agents are accelerating identity theft in the United States — from searching for Social Security numbers on the dark web to creating deepfake driver’s licenses.
By Chris Borden The price of GPT-5.5 has effectively increased sharply compared with GPT-5.4. On paper, the model is twice as expensive: GPT-5.5 costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, while GPT-5.4 was priced at $2.50 and $15 respectively. OpenAI argues that the increase is partly offset by the model generating fewer tokens. However, an analysis by OpenRouter suggests that this only applies to a limited extent. In real usage, costs rose by 49% to 92% compared with GPT-5.4.
By Chris Borden Anthropic is expanding its AI Claude Managed Agents platform, launched in April, with three new features designed to make AI agents more reliable, easier to evaluate, and better at learning from past work.
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