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15 May 2026

Honor Robot Phone sets Q3 launch with AI camera gimbal targeting creators and filmmakers

Honor confirms its Robot Phone will launch between July and September 2025, featuring a robotic gimbal camera that extends from the device. Showcased at Cannes Film Festival, the phone integrates ARRI Image Science and AI-powered stabilization to deliver professional-grade mobile filmmaking tools for content creators and influencers.

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Samsung unveils AI-powered screens and next-gen OLED displays at Australian Tech Summit 2026

Samsung showcased its latest AI-powered display technologies at the Australian Tech Summit 2026 in Sydney on May 14-15. The event featured hands-on demonstrations of Micro RGB TVs, next-gen OLED displays, and Odyssey gaming monitors, highlighting how AI is transforming screen experiences across home entertainment and gaming.

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xAI Launches Grok Build AI Coding Agent as Musk Races to Rival Anthropic's Claude Code

Elon Musk's xAI has unveiled Grok Build, its first AI coding agent designed for professional software engineering and complex coding work. Available in early beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers at $300 per month, the tool marks xAI's push into the competitive coding market. The launch comes as Musk rebuilds the company following cofounder departures and aims to catch up with rivals like Anthropic's Claude Code.

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Unitree unveils $650K giant rideable mecha robot as company files for $7 billion IPO

Unitree Robotics unveiled the GD01, a 2.8-meter transformable mecha that a human pilot operates from an open cockpit. Priced at approximately $650,000, the robot switches between bipedal and quadrupedal modes in seconds. The launch comes as Unitree files for a $7 billion IPO, having shipped more humanoid robots than Tesla in 2025 and capturing 70% of the global quadruped robot market.

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Google unveils Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent with deep Gmail and Workspace integration

Google announced Gemini Spark at its I/O developer conference, positioning it as an AI-powered personal assistant that runs continuously in the cloud. Built on Gemini base models and integrated with Gmail, Docs, and other Google Workspace apps, Spark can autonomously handle multi-step tasks like organizing events, drafting emails, and tracking expenses. The proactive AI agent launches in beta next week for Google AI Ultra subscribers at over $100 per month, though concerns about personal data privacy and autonomous access persist.

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Infoblox and GoDaddy Back Open Standards for AI Agent Discovery and Verification

Infoblox and GoDaddy announced support for complementary open standards designed to help AI agents identify and verify one another across the internet. Infoblox is advancing DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) while GoDaddy develops Agent Name Service (ANS), both built on existing DNS infrastructure to enable interoperability and prevent single-vendor control.

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Fiserv partners with OpenAI to deploy AI agents across banking workflows with agentOS

Fiserv has teamed up with OpenAI to bring frontier AI directly into banking platforms through a new operating system called agentOS. The collaboration aims to help financial institutions deploy and manage AI agents across their workflows while modernizing operations and strengthening cybersecurity without disrupting day-to-day activities.

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Freshworks launches AI Agent Studio in Freshservice with no-code deployment and MCP Gateway

Freshworks unveiled Freddy AI Agent Studio at its annual Refresh conference, introducing a no-code environment for building custom AI agents in Freshservice. The platform includes Model Context Protocol Gateway for third-party integrations and AI Insights with Experience Level Agreements to measure service performance against employee sentiment.

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Indian AI warfare firm to manufacture Kaal Bhairava drone in Europe under Operation 777

Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace announces its first international manufacturing facility in Portugal for the Kaal Bhairava autonomous combat aircraft. The Bengaluru-based AI warfare company partners with SKETCHPIXEL LDA to produce India's first AI combat aircraft in a NATO member state, marking a shift in India's defence technology exports under the ambitious Operation 777 initiative.

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14 May 2026

OpenAI Codex arrives on ChatGPT mobile app to let developers manage coding tasks remotely

OpenAI rolled out Codex access through the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android, enabling developers to remotely control coding sessions running on their computers. The move comes as OpenAI intensifies competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, with over four million developers now using Codex weekly. Users can review outputs, approve commands, and manage workflows from their phones while files stay secure on their desktop machines.

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Graphon AI raises $8.3M to build pre-model intelligence layer solving enterprise data limits

Graphon AI emerged from stealth with $8.3 million in seed funding led by Novera Ventures to commercialize a mathematical framework that addresses how large language models struggle with enterprise-scale data. The startup's platform uses graphon functions to create persistent relational memory, allowing AI models to understand relationships across trillions of tokens without hitting context window limits.

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Netflix launches INKubator studio to produce animated shorts with generative AI

Netflix is building INKubator, a new internal studio dedicated to creating short-form animated content using generative AI. The streamer is hiring producers, software engineers, and CG artists for what job listings describe as a next-generation animation studio. While starting with shorts and specials, the studio has ambitions to expand into longer-form content, potentially feeding Netflix's TikTok-style Clips feature and kids' programming.

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Security researchers use Anthropic Mythos to expose macOS vulnerabilities on Apple M5 chips

Security firm Calif used Anthropic Mythos to create a privilege escalation exploit for macOS, bypassing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement on M5 silicon in just five days. The discovery marks the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 chips and highlights AI's growing role in cybersecurity research, though experts say fears of AI-enabled hacking may be overstated.

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AMD FSR 4.1 AI upscaling expands to older Radeon RX GPUs, bringing ML-powered visuals to 300+ games

AMD confirms FSR 4.1 AI upscaling will arrive on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs this July, followed by RX 6000 series in early 2027. The machine learning-powered technology, previously exclusive to RX 9000 cards, will support over 300 games and deliver sharper visuals without hardware upgrades. AMD optimized the model for INT8 processing on older architectures.

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HMRC awards £175M AI contract to British firm Quantexa to tackle £46.8B tax gap

The UK tax authority HMRC has signed a 10-year, £175 million deal with London-based AI firm Quantexa to modernize data infrastructure and deploy AI for fraud detection. The contract aims to help close the £46.8 billion tax gap and represents a strategic shift toward digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive government data with a British company rather than US tech giants.

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