Here’s an early look at the new Gemini assistant on a vehicle infotainment system. | Image: Google Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google's announcement, and promises to provide an improved experience for natural conversations, fetching vehicle-specific information,...
Here’s an early look at the new Gemini assistant on a vehicle infotainment system. | Image: Google Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google's announcement, and promises to provide an improved experience for natural conversations, fetching vehicle-specific information, settings adjustments, and more. "When cars with Google built-in first hit the road in 2020, we made a commitment that your car will get better over time," Google senior product manager Alankar Agnihotri said in the announcement . "That means that Gemini is coming not only to new cars, but also to existing ones through a software update." The a … Read the full story at The Verge.
Microsoft is starting to test its Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) feature with the Xbox Ally X. Auto SR first debuted on some Copilot Plus PCs nearly two years ago, improving visual quality and frame rates in select games. Now, Microsoft is testing it for docked play on the Xbox Ally X, allowing the 7-inch handheld to improve resolution and graphical settings for bigger TV screens. "Docked pl...
Microsoft is starting to test its Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR) feature with the Xbox Ally X. Auto SR first debuted on some Copilot Plus PCs nearly two years ago, improving visual quality and frame rates in select games. Now, Microsoft is testing it for docked play on the Xbox Ally X, allowing the 7-inch handheld to improve resolution and graphical settings for bigger TV screens. "Docked play means larger screens and higher resolutions, where drops in image quality are more noticeable or where some games struggle to maintain smooth FPS," says Microsoft in a detailed blog post on Auto SR. "That's exactly the problem Auto SR was design … Read the full story at The Verge.
Writer , the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures , Adobe Ventures , and Insight Partners , today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously detect business signals across Gmail, Gong, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Slack — and execute complex multi-step workflows without any human initiating the p...
Writer , the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures , Adobe Ventures , and Insight Partners , today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously detect business signals across Gmail, Gong, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Slack — and execute complex multi-step workflows without any human initiating the process. The release, which also includes a new Adobe Experience Manager connector and a suite of enhanced governance controls such as bring-your-own encryption keys and a Datadog observability plugin, represents Writer's most aggressive bet yet on fully autonomous enterprise AI. It arrives at a moment when AWS , Salesforce , and Microsoft are all racing to establish their own agentic platforms, and when the question of how much autonomy enterprises will actually hand to AI agents remains deeply unresolved. "We are launching a series of event triggers that power and drive our playbooks to be more proactively called," Doris Jwo, Writer's VP of Product Management, told VentureBeat ahead of the announcement. "We're building on the ecosystem to actually for these connectors, such as SharePoint, Google Drive, Gong, Gmail, Google Calendar, actually listen for events happening in those platforms, so that the agent can practically know that something happened externally, and then, where relevant, call a certain playbook to be actually run live in real time, without any sort of human intervention required." The shift from reactive to proactive AI agents marks a critical inflection point for enterprise software. Until now, most AI assistants — including Writer's own platform — required a human to initiate every interaction. A marketer had to open a chat window and ask for help. A salesperson had to prompt a research brief. The new event-based triggers flip that dynamic entirely: the system watches for business events and acts on its own. Why Writer decided humans were the weakest link...
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 30, 2026--PsiQuantum announced that Lip-Bu Tan, a longtime leader of the semiconductor industry and CEO of Intel, has joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors.
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 30, 2026--PsiQuantum announced that Lip-Bu Tan, a longtime leader of the semiconductor industry and CEO of Intel, has joined the PsiQuantum Board of Directors.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2026--WRITER, the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies globally, today announced event-based triggers for WRITER Agent, enabling enterprises to automate complex workflows across their entire technology stack without manual initiation. Combined with new enterprise connectors including Adobe Experience Manager and enhanced governance controls, the re...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2026--WRITER, the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies globally, today announced event-based triggers for WRITER Agent, enabling enterprises to automate complex workflows across their entire technology stack without manual initiation. Combined with new enterprise connectors including Adobe Experience Manager and enhanced governance controls, the release further establishes WRITER as the leading platform for agentic work at enterprise scale.
PARIS, April 30, 2026--Regulatory News: Xilam Animation (Paris:ALXIL), Academy Award®-nominated French animation studio, announces the filing of its 2025 Financial Annual Report, with Euronext on April 30, 2026.
PARIS, April 30, 2026--Regulatory News: Xilam Animation (Paris:ALXIL), Academy Award®-nominated French animation studio, announces the filing of its 2025 Financial Annual Report, with Euronext on April 30, 2026.
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way ...
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way that looks strangely amicable. Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available across all cloud providers. A day later, OpenAI an … Read the full story at The Verge.
Fidelity, Vanguard Halt Donations To SPLC After Federal Indictment Fidelity and Vanguard have stopped processing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center through their donor-advised fund platforms, citing the organization’s recent federal indictmen t on fraud charges. The moves came April 29, eight days after a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC on 11 counts of wire fraud, false s...
Fidelity, Vanguard Halt Donations To SPLC After Federal Indictment Fidelity and Vanguard have stopped processing donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center through their donor-advised fund platforms, citing the organization’s recent federal indictmen t on fraud charges. The moves came April 29, eight days after a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors allege that between 2014 and 2023 the group secretly funneled more than $3 million in donor funds to individuals affiliated with extremist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America , while misleading donors about the use of the money. Fidelity Charitable, which oversees more than 350,000 donor-advised accounts, notified customers that the SPLC is no longer an eligible grant recipient , the NY Times reports. “Fidelity Charitable is aware of an ongoing governmental investigation into Southern Poverty Law Center,” the company wrote in an email to a donor. “Consistent with our grant-making standards and practices, the organization is not an eligible grant recipient during the ongoing investigation .” Vanguard Charitable issued a similar denial when a donor requested a grant. “The organization has had allegations and/or charges brought against them for activities that may call into question their ability to carry out their tax-exempt charitable purpose,” the company stated. Both sponsors have long-standing rules that allow them to reject grant recommendations when legal issues arise. Fidelity Charitable’s guidelines state that recommendations “might” be declined if an organization “is being investigated for alleged illegal activities or noncharitable activities, such as terrorism, money laundering, hate crimes or fraud, ” or if other federal or state agencies are investigating the group. Vanguard Charitable’s policy is triggered by any criminal ...