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13 May 2026

MakeMyTrip upgrades Myra AI to enable complete voice-driven travel bookings across 8 languages

MakeMyTrip has launched Myra 2.0, transforming its AI-powered travel assistant into a full conversational booking platform. Users can now complete entire booking journeys through voice interactions in eight languages, with integrated payments and document uploads. The platform handles over 3 million conversations quarterly, with 45% of usage coming from Tier-2 and smaller cities.

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Amazon replaces Rufus with Alexa for Shopping as AI rivals threaten its marketplace dominance

Amazon unveiled Alexa for Shopping, retiring its Rufus chatbot in favor of a unified AI-powered shopping assistant integrated directly into the search bar. The move comes as OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity push into online shopping with their own AI agents, threatening Amazon's $56 billion advertising business built on sponsored product listings.

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Apple aims to close the AI gap with major iOS 27 AI features and revamped Siri experience

Apple is preparing to unveil iOS 27 with significant AI features including AI-powered shortcut creation, AI-generated wallpapers, and enhanced writing tools with grammar checking. The update also brings a completely redesigned Siri experience with a dedicated chat app, Dynamic Island integration, and natural language capabilities, set to debut at WWDC on June 8.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 expected to debut with Google's Gemini Intelligence

Samsung's next-generation foldables could showcase Gemini Intelligence, a system-level assistant that handles multi-app tasks from single requests. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8 are expected to ship with One UI 9, marking a shift from chatbot responses to practical mobile AI capabilities that automate chained actions across multiple apps.

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Google and Samsung unveil Android XR smart glasses with Gemini AI, launching this fall

Google showcased its first wave of Android XR smart glasses at I/O 2026, developed with Samsung and designed by Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The audio smart glasses feature integrated Gemini AI for real-time translations, object identification, and hands-free AI capabilities. Samsung will reportedly unveil Galaxy Glasses at its July Unpacked event in London.

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Lenovo ThinkPad debuts Ryzen AI 400 chip with rare 9/10 repairability score from iFixit

Lenovo has completed its 2026 ThinkPad lineup with the X13 Gen 7, marking the debut of AMD's Ryzen AI 400 processors. Starting at $1,499 and weighing just 2.05 pounds, the ultralight laptop delivers 50 TOPS AI processing with Thunderbolt 4 connectivity. The device earned a rare 9/10 repairability score from iFixit, with replaceable battery, SSD, and WWAN modules.

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Anthropic acquires Stainless for $300M, pulling key developer tools from OpenAI and Google

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK generation startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for over $300 million. The deal removes a critical infrastructure supplier from competitors' hands as Anthropic winds down all hosted Stainless products by September 2026, forcing rivals to find alternative tooling solutions.

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Threads users revolt as Meta AI chatbot launches without a block button

Meta introduced an AI chatbot on Threads that functions like Grok on X, but users quickly discovered they cannot block the @meta.ai account. The backlash has generated over a million posts, with frustrated users demanding opt-out choices. Meta says users can mute the bot or tap "not interested," but those options don't provide the same level of control as blocking.

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Japan's megabanks to access Anthropic Mythos AI as cybersecurity concerns mount globally

Japan's three largest banks—MUFG, Mizuho, and Sumitomo Mitsui—will gain access to Anthropic's vulnerability-hunting AI model Mythos by the end of May. This marks the first Japanese entry to the restricted rollout, which has uncovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers. Japan is establishing a public-private working group to address the cybersecurity risks posed by this powerful AI model.

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Sony Xperia 1 VIII debuts with square camera island and AI assistant for photographers

Sony has unveiled the Xperia 1 VIII with its first major camera redesign since 2020, swapping the signature vertical lens arrangement for a square camera module. The flagship smartphone features an AI Camera Assistant powered by Xperia Intelligence that suggests settings before you shoot, plus a dramatically larger telephoto sensor that's four times bigger than its predecessor.

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iOS 27 brings customizable Camera app with AI features and a ChatGPT-like Siri overhaul

Apple is preparing a major update to iOS 27 with a fully customizable Camera app that lets users pick their own controls and widgets. The update also brings a ChatGPT-like Siri overhaul with a standalone app, conversation history, and AI integration across iPhone apps including Safari, Weather, and Image Playground.

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Sipeed K3 RISC-V SBC runs 30B AI LLMs locally at 15 tokens per second for $299

Sipeed has launched its K3 series RISC-V-powered single board computers that can run 30B-parameter AI LLMs locally at up to 15 tokens per second. Built with SpacemiT's Fusion Architecture and featuring up to 32GB LPDDR5 memory plus a 60 TOPS NPU, the K3 offers an accessible open-source alternative to proprietary AI hardware starting at $299.

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Celonis Acquires Ikigai Labs to Solve Enterprise AI's Operational Context Problem

Celonis has announced the acquisition of MIT-founded Ikigai Labs and launched the Celonis Context Model to address a critical challenge in enterprise AI deployment. The deal brings large graphical model technology for forecasting and scenario planning into Celonis' process intelligence platform, with MIT becoming a shareholder and Ikigai co-founder joining as Chief Scientist.

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Palo Alto Networks Unveils Idira to Secure Machine and Agentic Identities in AI Enterprise

Palo Alto Networks launched Idira, a next-generation identity security platform that extends CyberArk technology to manage human, machine and agentic identities under one framework. With machine and AI identities outnumbering human identities 109 to 1, the platform addresses a critical security gap as 9 out of 10 organizations experienced identity-related breaches in the past year.

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SAP invests in n8n, embedding workflow automation into Joule Studio at $5.2 billion valuation

SAP has embedded n8n's workflow automation platform into Joule Studio, its agent-building environment, while taking a 1.3% stake that values the Berlin startup at $5.2 billion—double its previous valuation. The multi-year partnership positions n8n as the AI orchestration layer for SAP's 300,000 enterprise customers, connecting AI agents to more than 1,000 external systems.

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