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Amazon puts Alexa Plus inside Amazon.com as new shopping assistant
Alexa for Shopping replaces Rufus in the search bar, handles price alerts, auto-reorders, and agentic checkout across the web.
Poppy launches proactive AI assistant with $1.25M pre-seed from Kindred Ventures
Ex-Humane engineer Sai Kambampati pitches an ambient AI layer that reads your calendar, email, and messages to suggest what to do next.
Hermes Agent hits 140,000 GitHub stars, runs on NVIDIA RTX and DGX Spark
Nous Research's local-first agent framework is now the most-used agent on OpenRouter, paired with Alibaba's new Qwen 3.6 models.
Meta AI launches as a taggable Threads account users cannot block
Threads users in five countries can tag Meta AI for answers, but the account has no block option — and the complaint trended past 1 million posts.
Google rebrands premium Gemini features as 'Gemini Intelligence' for Android
Task automation goes multimodal, Chrome on Android gets a Gemini button, and autofill plugs into your Photos and Gmail.
Threads tests Meta AI mentions in a Grok-style rollout across five countries
Public Threads users can tag @meta.ai for real-time context on news and trends; the beta is live in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Argentina, and Singapore.
Google launches Rambler, a Gemini-powered dictation feature inside Gboard
Rambler arrives pre-installed on the default Android keyboard, putting Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, and Typeless on notice.
Google's 'Create My Widget' lets Android users vibe-code home-screen widgets
Gemini-powered widget builder takes natural-language prompts and ships first to Samsung Galaxy and Pixel this summer.
Rivian rolls out AI voice assistant to Gen 1 and Gen 2 owners
The Rivian Assistant ties into vehicle hardware and apps like Google Calendar, gated behind a $15/month Connect Plus subscription.
Digg returns as an AI news aggregator ranking 1,000 voices on X
Kevin Rose's third Digg pivots from a Reddit clone to an X-fed AI news tracker, two months after the previous version shut down.
Apple Readies Camera-Equipped AirPods With User-Pick AI Models for Siri
The earbuds will let owners route Siri through Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT, pushing Apple deeper into wearable AI hardware.
Perplexity opens Personal Computer to all Mac users with 400 connectors
The local AI agent app exits its Max-tier waitlist, runs on-device, and can be triggered remotely from an iPhone.
Spotify opens its library to AI-generated personal podcasts via a new CLI
A beta command-line tool lets Codex, Claude Code and OpenClaw users pipe agent-made audio briefings straight into their Spotify library.
Google launches $100 screenless Fitbit Air and Gemini-powered Health app
First Fitbit hardware in four years arrives with a rebranded app, a $10/month AI coach, and the death of the Fitbit name across Google's wearable stack.
Spotify's AI DJ adds French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese
The interactive feature jumps from 2 to 6 languages and lands in 8 new markets, reaching more than 75 countries.
Google Home upgrades to Gemini 3.1 with new camera controls and Ask Home web access
The smart-speaker line finally gets the Gemini 3.1 model Google released in February, plus 10-second skip buttons and Familiar Faces feedback.
Claude Code and Cowork Lower the Bar for Solo App Builders, Host Says
Anthropic's coding agents can guide non-developers through building React Native apps for iOS and Android, the host argues, as Apple cracks down on spam.
Roomba creator Colin Angle returns with Familiar, an AI robot pet
Familiar Machines & Magic unveiled Ami, a quadruped companion robot with 23 degrees of freedom running on Nvidia Jetson Orin.
Squirrel creator Derrick Downey Jr. vibe-codes DualShot Recorder to No. 1 on the App Store
DualShot Recorder hit the top of the paid charts in 12 hours, built largely with Claude by a creator who isn't a software developer.
AI dictation apps tested: Wispr Flow, Willow, Superwhisper lead a crowded field
TechCrunch's roundup tracks ten dictation tools spanning $0 free tiers to $249.99 lifetime plans, with latency as low as 80ms.
Microsoft Makes Agent Mode the Default in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Satya Nadella confirms agent mode is generally available across Copilot, with Anthropic's models now embedded inside Microsoft's core productivity apps.
Microsoft launches Legal Agent inside Word, built on ex-Robin AI engineers
The contract-review agent ships to Frontier program members in the US on May 1, following Microsoft's hire of staff from the failed Robin AI startup.
Stripe launches Link, a digital wallet built for AI agents to spend on your behalf
The wallet uses OAuth and one-time virtual cards so autonomous agents can pay without ever seeing raw card credentials.
Goodfire ships Silico, an off-the-shelf tool for debugging LLMs from the inside
The San Francisco startup wants to drag model training out of alchemy and into engineering by exposing the neurons that drive behavior.
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