Google has introduced a new photography feature called Camera Looks for its Pixel 11 lineup, but older Pixel devices will not have access to it — at least for now.
Camera Looks processes image data…
Apple has filed a proposal in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games that would allow the company to collect fees on digital purchases made through external links that bypass its in-app…
Microsoft is pulling Mico—the yellow blob introduced in Copilot’s voice mode in Oct 2025—from the chatbot “in waves.” As of Aug 2026, it will be moved to the Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to.”
A federal judge ordered Google to cut “anticompetitive friction” for rival Android app stores at an Aug. 2026 San Francisco hearing before Judge James Donato. Google must show third-party stores in Play search (e.g., “store for apps”) and replace a rival “view” button with direct “install.”
Suno released Studio 2.0 in August 2026, a significant upgrade to its music creation platform that moves it closer to a full digital audio workstation (DAW) rather than a basic AI-powered audio…
Microsoft announced in August 2026 that it is consolidating its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single unified app, replacing the separate Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps…
Petlibro’s service outage began Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2026, taking smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains offline and blocking scheduled tasks through the Petlibro app. By Wednesday 2:30PM ET, Petlibro said much of the service was restored; it added locally stored settings and schedules would remain, but some users still couldn’t reconnect.
Twitch users can now opt out of having their content used to train Amazon’s generative AI models, the platform announced in 2026. The setting is available under the Security and Privacy tab in…
Google is building a dedicated set of content creation tools directly into the Pixel 11’s camera app, announced in 2026. Called Creator Suite, the new mode is designed to help creators record,…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in Aug 2026 as an always-on “AI teammate” that signs into your existing apps and completes multi-step workplace tasks independently in a shared cloud computer. It runs multiple bots in parallel, reuses saved workflows, and follows up on dropped conversations, building on an internal prototype for sales outreach, marketing, office ops, and bug fixes.
Meta launched Threads for Meta Quest headsets on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, bringing feed browsing, posting, likes/replies, profiles, search, and video watching to VR. It follows Threads on Ray-Ban Display AR glasses and comes as the platform reports 500M monthly active users.
Both ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have crossed 1 billion users, marking a significant moment in the AI industry as the two largest AI chatbot platforms reach the same milestone within weeks of each…
