Mozilla’s MZLA Technologies has introduced Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client designed to give organizations more control over how AI runs inside their infrastructure. The project focuses on self-hosting, flexible model choices, and enterprise integrations through the Haystack AI framework.
Opera is testing Browser Connector, a feature that lets AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude read open tabs and page content for real time browsing context.
Google finally released a native Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing and instant keyboard access. Considering the AI race heating up, it is surprising Mac users had to wait this long.
IBM is warning that the rise of powerful AI models could make cyberattacks faster and more automated than ever. To counter the threat, the company is rolling out new cybersecurity assessments and an AI driven defense platform designed to detect vulnerabilities and respond to attacks at machine speed.
Trend Micro is rebranding its consumer security business as TrendLife and promising AI era protection with Kaleida. But is it truly new, or mostly marketing?
IBM says artificial intelligence is moving toward infrastructure status and argues that open source development may be the safest way to build and secure it.
Acer says its Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation will power the NVIDIA Spark Hack Series in New York where developers will build AI solutions using open city data.
A newly released open source framework called SentiAvatar aims to make AI avatars behave more like real people during conversation. The project includes a motion dataset with 21,000 clips, a foundation model trained on hundreds of hours of motion data, and a system that synchronizes speech, facial expressions, and body gestures in real time. If the technology works as advertised, it could help developers build more believable NPCs, AI assistants, and virtual characters.
Google and the Kubernetes community have launched a new AI Conformance program designed to ensure Kubernetes clusters can properly support machine learning workloads, GPUs, and large scale inference.
Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, securing access to massive TPU computing capacity to power its next generation of Claude AI models and enterprise applications.
Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will stop covering third party tools like OpenClaw. Developers may now need API billing instead.
OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a show that built its reputation on independent discussion of the AI industry. Now that the podcast is owned by the company it covers, many observers believe its credibility is gone.