Elon Musk's xAI has launched Grok Studio, a new collaborative canvas on Grok.com for creating documents, code, & apps, integrating Google Drive support.

Perplexity AI has reportedly entered talks with Samsung to feature its assistant on Galaxy phones, providing a potential alternative to Google Gemini following a deal with Motorola.

OpenAI has entered talks to acquire Windsurf for $3B, expanding its developer tool strategy and challenging GitHub Copilot in AI code generation.

Codex CLI is a free, open source tool for model-agnostic AI coding that lets developers use AI directly in the terminal without relying on cloud-based platforms.

OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, giving ChatGPT the ability to reason and choose tools autonomously across text, code, image, and file inputs.

Mark Zuckerberg has faced sharp scrutiny over allegations of building censorship tools for China, prompting heated Senate and FTC hearings.

Nvidia has announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan for Texas, just as the US government has basically banned H20 chip exports to China.

Mark Zuckerberg's attempt to resolve Meta's FTC antitrust fight has fallen short, with offers deemed "delusional," pushing the dispute over past acquisitions into court.

Paying Claude users can now integrate the AI with their Google Workspace apps and use a new agentic Research feature combining internal context with web search.

OpenAI has updated its safety framework, introducing a clause allowing rules to be adjusted based on competitor actions amid scrutiny over testing speed.

New U.S. export rules under Trump have blocked Nvidia H20 and AMD MI308 AI chip sales to China, citing national security concerns.

OpenAI is working on a social feed prototype using ChatGPT image generation, aiming to compete with X and Meta while gathering data to train future AI models.

Gemini Advanced subscribers are getting access to Veo 2, Google’s AI model for creating realistic, short-form videos using cinematic instructions.

Nvidia has revealed the GeForce RTX 5060 family, with the RTX 5060 Ti launching April 16th from $379 and the RTX 5060 in May from $299, featuring DLSS 4.

A new Android security feature delivered via Google Play services has arrived, forcing locked phones/tablets to reboot after 3 days for better data protection.

Ilya Sutskever's AI startup SSI has secured $2B from Alphabet, Nvidia, and VCs, reaching a $32B valuation and partnering with Google Cloud for TPU use.

Elon Musk's DOGE group and Palantir have participated in an IRS "hackathon" to build a "mega API" for the IRS, potentially using Palantir's Foundry software as a data hub.

Chinese chip traders have halted price quotes for AI chips as Trump’s tariff threats have sparked new tensions in the U.S.-China tech conflict.