In Brief Posted: 8:33 AM PDT · May 16, 2026 Anthony Ha OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired . …
… Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai described Spark as the next evolution of smart digital assistants, using agentic AI to take on long-horizon tasks with minimal oversight. “It’s your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction,” Pichai… …
… Google is also adding native voice command support to Antigravity, just like it has added to multiple consumer products, including Gmail and Docs . …
Earlier this week, hackers hijacked several open source projects used by dozens of companies and pushed updates designed to spread malware. …
Krutrim, India’s first GenAI unicorn, is shifting from AI model development to cloud services after months of relative quiet on product updates — a move that reflects the tougher economics of building large-scale AI systems. …
… The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol AP2 and teased that it would bring the technology to Google products in the coming months, enabling users to authorize agents to make payments on their behalf. …
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… Startup Luma AI is building something similar, an agentic tool that can generate an entire ad campaign based on a short brief and a product image, powered by its own “unified” model. “We’re actually pretty proud of the model’s text-rendering capabilities, which is really useful for things like adve… …
… Scapia, which has about 250 employees, said the fresh funding will go toward expanding its product offerings and hiring more AI-focused engineering and product talent as competition intensifies in India’s consumer fintech market. …
… That suggests the company believes this is bigger news and more closely tied to its idea of putting AI to real-world use, as was the larger theme of this year’s event, where AI was spread across Google products, from workspace productivity apps to AI tools, search, mobile apps, and more. …