Google Launches AI Image and Video Tools: 4-Second Images, Conversational Video Editing
Google unveiled Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, enabling near‑real‑time image generation and conversational video editing at low cost.
Google unveiled Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, enabling near‑real‑time image generation and conversational video editing at low cost.
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, a new in‑house image generator that is faster and cheaper than previous versions, enabling rapid high‑volume image workflows for creators and businesses.
The AI neocloud provider has secured a $800 million Series C, boosting its valuation to $8.3 billion as companies increasingly turn to open‑source models and GPU‑cluster rentals.
Anthropic’s new Sonnet 5 model offers improved agentic performance, better reasoning, and lower costs, becoming the default for free and pro plans.
OpenAI announced the Jalapeño chip, a purpose‑built inference processor that promises higher performance‑per‑watt than existing GPUs.
OpenAI and Broadcom announced a custom AI chip that could cut inference costs by about 50%, boosting the speed of large language models.
Probook’s AI platform booked more than 2,500 jobs in a month without human intervention for one customer, showing the growing role of AI in field‑service work.
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on June 23, a disk‑shaped reentry capsule that could upend the economics of orbital manufacturing.
At its Build 2026 conference, Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1, proprietary models aimed at reducing costs and dependence on OpenAI’s APIs.
Amazon Web Services secures a $2.56 billion contract to provide commercial cloud services for the Department of Homeland Security, expanding federal cloud infrastructure.
Meta partnered with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores, powering its agentic AI systems and emphasizing purpose‑built silicon for AI workloads.
Canva is shifting from a pure design tool to an AI‑first infrastructure platform, promising faster and cheaper content creation for marketers scaling output.
Three drone strikes. Two data centers offline. One very expensive warning to Silicon Valley: the Gulf is no longer safe ground for the infrastructure of the future.
The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever and its clearest attempt yet to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows laptops. Unlike the MacBook Air and Pro, the Neo runs on an iPhone-class A-series chip, which helps Apple cut the starting price sharply while keeping the design lightweight and colorful.
New performance data shows that NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell Ultra platform delivers up to 50× higher throughput and up to 35× lower cost per token for agentic AI workloads compared with the previous Hopper generation — enabling significantly faster, more economically scalable real-time coding assistants and autonomous AI agents.