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9 updates · 5 appsMay 20, 2026

ChatGPT is making it easier to tell if media was made by AI, helping you trust what you see online

You can now use Gemini Omni to create videos by combining images, audio, video, and text, and it will intelligently blend them into a consistent output.

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Gemini

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You can now use Gemini Omni to create videos by combining images, audio, video, and text, and it will intelligently blend them into a consistent output.

When Google launched Gemini three years ago, the goal was to build a multimodal large language model — a single neural network that was trained on text, image, audio, and video and could generate content in any of those formats. Today, at its Google I/O developer conference, the company took a concrete step toward that goal with Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that Google CEO Sundar Pichai says wi…

Today, at its Google I/O developer conference , the company took a concrete step toward that goal with Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal models that Google CEO Sundar Pichai says will be able to “create anything from any input.” Omni will start with video.

Original reportingGoogle's Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into videoRead original

Expanded summary · Gemini

The Gemini app now has a "Daily Brief" feature that gives you a personalized summary of information from your inbox, calendar, and important tasks each morning.

At its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that the Gemini app is getting a series of new updates, including a “Daily Brief” feature, a redesigned interface, access to a new AI video model called Gemini Omni,…

Original reportingGoogle updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026Read original

Expanded summary · Gemini

You can now talk to your Gmail inbox and Google Keep, asking questions and getting responses, just like a conversation.

8220;Gmail Live can answer naturally phrased questions, respond to follow-up questions, and pivot if you need to interrupt it,” Devanshi Bhandari, product lead for Gmail, explained in a briefing ahead of Google’s annual develop…

Original reportingYou can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at Google IO 2026Read original

ChatGPT

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OpenAI is improving how you can tell if media is AI-generated with new tools like Content Credentials and SynthID, making it easier to trust what you see.

OpenAI advances AI content provenance with Content Credentials, SynthID, and a verification tool to help people identify and trust AI-generated media.

Original reportingAdvancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystemRead original

Claude Code

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AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan

AI With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots Rebecca Bellan AI Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026 Ivan Mehta In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own Antigravity or Gemini…

In addition to serving up its own flavor of vibe-coding tools for building on Android, Google announced it will also offer tools that allow AI agents, like Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, or its own Antigravity or Gemini in Android Stud…

Original reportingAgentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google's release of Android CLI | TechCrunchRead original

Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

At Anthropic, we want to build AI systems that advance humanity and act for the global good.

To do so, we need to engage with those who see the world from a variety of different perspectives.

Over the past several months, we’ve been organizing dialogues with groups whose work and traditions bear on the questions raised by AI.

Original reportingWidening the conversation on frontier AIRead original

Expanded summary · Claude

As part of this alliance, KPMG is embedding Claude inside Digital Gateway, the software KPMG's people and clients use to do the actual work—starting with new tools for tax and legal clients.

And every one of KPMG's 276,000+ emplo…

Anthropic is also naming KPMG a preferred partner for private equity, and the two companies will build new Claude-powered products together for PE portfolio companies.

Original reportingKPMG integrates Claude across its core business and workforce of more than 276,000 in strategic allianceRead original

Expanded summary · Claude

The frontier of AI is shifting from models that answer to agents that act—and agents are only as capable as the systems they can reach.

Today, Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a leader in SDKs and MCP server tooling, to extend that reach…

Founded in 2022, Stainless has powered the generation of every official Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API.

Original reportingAnthropic acquires StainlessRead original

Perplexity

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Expanded summary · Perplexity

Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

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