OpenAI appears to be preparing an iPhone companion app for its Codex desktop application. Company employees responded to user requests for remote control features on Twitter, with one stating users should expect the functionality within days.
AWS announced that Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions will reach end of support on April 30, 2027, with new account creation blocked starting May 15, 2026. The company is transitioning users to Kiro, a new agentic development environment built for spec-driven development.
IBM has released Granite 4.1 8B, an 8-billion-parameter decoder-only language model with a 131,072-token context window. The model supports 12 languages and costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens, available under the Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI will roll out GPT-5.5 Cyber only to 'critical cyber defenders' in the coming days, requiring an application process despite CEO Sam Altman previously criticizing Anthropic for taking the same approach with its competing cybersecurity tool Mythos.
Google announced it will deploy Gemini AI to vehicles with Google built-in, replacing the current Google Assistant. General Motors confirmed 4 million vehicles from model year 2022 and newer across Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC brands will receive the update, with the rollout beginning in the U.S. with English-language support.
Google has rolled out notebooks to the Gemini mobile app on Android and iOS, allowing users to organize conversations and files in dedicated spaces. The feature syncs with NotebookLM and supports between 50 and 600 sources per notebook depending on subscription tier.
OpenAI discovered its GPT-5.1 through GPT-5.4 models developed an increasing fixation on goblins, gremlins, and other mythical creatures. The issue traced back to reinforcement learning rewards used to develop a discontinued 'Nerdy personality' feature, which persisted across model generations.
IBM has released Granite 4.1-8B, an 8-billion parameter long-context model with a 131,072-token context window. The model achieves 85.37% on HumanEval and 73.84% on MMLU 5-shot, with enhanced tool-calling capabilities reaching 68.27% on BFCL v3. Released under Apache 2.0 license, it supports 12 languages.
OpenRouter has released Owl Alpha, a foundation model specifically designed for agentic workloads with native tool use support and a 1,048,756 token context window. The model is currently free for both input and output tokens and is compatible with Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other productivity tools.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 has added UI design analysis capabilities, allowing it to review interface designs, flag specific issues, and generate redesigned mockups. The feature is available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers at $20/month and represents an expansion beyond pure image generation into design review.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5.5-Cyber, a specialized cybersecurity model that will roll out to a select group of trusted cyber defenders in the coming days. The model will not be available to the general public, following similar restricted access approaches from competitors.
Meta is developing AI agents for personal and business use that will run continuously to help users achieve goals, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's Q1 2026 earnings call. The agents will build on Meta's newly-released Muse Spark model from Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed that M365 Copilot has reached 20 million paid enterprise seats during the company's quarterly earnings call. Weekly engagement now matches Outlook usage levels, with queries per user up 20% quarter-over-quarter.
Apple researchers, alongside UC San Diego, have published LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning, a framework that combines diffusion models with autoregressive generation. The system runs multiple reasoning paths in parallel during inference, each exploring different possibilities before generating a final answer.
Google is rolling out direct file generation to all Gemini users worldwide. The chatbot can now export outputs in 11 formats including Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF, LaTeX, and Google Workspace formats directly from the prompt bar.
Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5, a 128B parameter dense model with a 256k context window that unifies instruction-following, reasoning, and coding capabilities. The model features configurable reasoning effort per request and a vision encoder trained from scratch for variable image sizes.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 31B parameter (30B active, 3B per token) multimodal model supporting video, audio, image, and text inputs. The model features a 256K token context window, reasoning mode with chain-of-thought, and tool calling capabilities.
Google Photos announced an AI feature that automatically creates a digital wardrobe from clothing photos in users' libraries. The feature allows outfit mixing and virtual try-on, launching on Android this summer before expanding to iOS.
Google is bringing Gemini AI capabilities to Google TV, starting with Imagen 3 image generation and Veo video creation tools. The features launch first on Gemini-enabled TCL TVs in the U.S., with Google Photos getting AI-powered search and editing features.
Google's Gemini app now supports direct file generation and export in 11 formats, including Google Workspace files (Docs, Sheets, Slides), PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, LaTeX, TXT, RTF, and Markdown. The feature is available globally to all Gemini app users starting April 29, 2026.