… Just one day before the launch of EmDash, Automattic’s Matias Ventura announced that the project is pushing back the launch of WordPress 7.0 for a “few weeks to finalize key architectural details.” Along with support for real-time collaborative editing, this update will include an AI client and an … …
… Microsoft’s first in-house reasoning AI model Microsoft is pushing ahead with its work to make its own AI models instead of relying on those created by OpenAI. …
… Image: The Firefly AI Assistant is designed to understand natural language commands, allowing you to adjust content without expertise in Adobe’s professional editing tools. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/Adobe-Firefly-Innovations-Visual-Asset-1.png?quality=90&strip… …
… To push Spark, I asked it to create that missing sign-up sheet and add a link to the email that was already drafted. While Spark took a few minutes to figure it out, that task did work; it created a spreadsheet and went back to the draft email text and dropped in the link. …
… Suleyman made sure to emphasize, again and again, Microsoft’s “humanist superintelligence” as an “AI that prioritizes humanity first” — part of AI companies’ recent rebrand of AGI to make it sound less frightening in an era when people are pushing back against AI more than ever before. …
… Amidst all that, we have the agentic AI boom, which an increasing number of manufacturers are leveraging to reel in that 60-month new car design and development window. As with most aspects of AI, the potential is huge. …
Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted last October. …
… I’ve also been dying to talk to software CEOs about what AI is doing inside their companies, as AI coding tools and agentic systems upend software development. …
… Sell the full AI-native stack Customers want a platform not point solutions. That’s what we have: ChatGPT for Work is the front door for knowledge work. Codex is the system for software and agentic development. …
… In addition to an executive shuffle, Microsoft has only pushed further into AI in recent months, with the company reporting $54.5 billion in revenue from its cloud business, marking a 29 percent year-over-year increase. “We are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that em… …