OpenAI is testing a visual ad format that appears during image generation, plus attribution tools that let advertisers send their own conversion data into ChatGPT Ads. Three weeks ago we listed OpenAI's ad promises as a scorecard. Here is how they held up.
EmbeddingGemma 2 is a 740M-parameter open model that turns text, code, images, video and audio into searchable vectors on a phone. It doesn't write anything. It decides what an AI can find — and it runs without sending your files anywhere.
Meta Connect produced a $1,299 VR-in-glasses flagship that arrives in spring 2027 — six months out. What you can actually buy next month is eyewear from $249 to $449, including a deliberately camera-free pair. Removing a feature is the most revealing thing Meta shipped.
Apple's rebuilt Siri reads your screen, searches your messages, email and photos, and takes actions across apps. Apple's own launch example chains inbound content from two people into an action. It is a beta, it started September 14, and it needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer — not the billion devices the headlines claimed.
France's CNIL flagged persistent memory and autonomous decisions as GDPR problems. US state privacy laws are heading the same way. Time to prepare.
Apple didn't just upgrade Siri at WWDC 2026. It moved AI from the app layer into the operating system — a different category of change entirely.
AI note-takers are quietly entering therapy sessions. They save hours of paperwork — but patients are finding their most intimate words recorded.