Updates

OpenAI launches Astra for longer-running AI work

Microsoft tests Project Opal, an AI employee for routine office tasks

GPT-6 Astra and Intelligent UI: ChatGPT gets a new heart

Gemini Spark can now tidy up your vacation photos for you

Google boosts reasoning in Gemini 3.8 Flash without raising the price

Adobe moves Photoshop, Acrobat and 70+ other tools into Slack

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra model

Claude can now keep working on your Mac while you do something else

Competitor warns: your Claude bill could be 80% too high

Microsoft 365 went down Monday, with Exchange, Teams and OneDrive affected

Meta's Muse Code is now available to all, with subscriptions and new developer tools

Google replaces Notebook's message cap with a smarter meter

Free AI image generators in 2026: here are the most mentioned

Gemini Spark expands to over 160 countries, but not to Denmark

OpenAI gives ChatGPT ads more visual formats

Microsoft launches its own voice models: AI that listens and speaks at once

OpenAI adds bank executives to its board and launches small business program

Claude Tag: Anthropic's AI colleague for Slack channels

TikTok sends AI agents into its ad platform

Five AI image tools content creators often point to

Remove backgrounds from images: here are the tools and Adobe's button

ChatGPT or Perplexity: how they use sources differently

Claude gets a "dreaming" feature that learns from earlier tasks