OpenAI says more women than men now use ChatGPT, flipping an 80-20 male split at launch
More women than men now use ChatGPT regularly, according to OpenAI’s own data. The company also estimates China’s AI spending at up to $125 billion and argues that computing power is becoming the defining competitive advantage in the AI race.
Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0
Nvidia researchers have unveiled Lyra 2.0, a system that generates large, coherent 3D environments from a single photograph. The resulting scenes can be explored in real time and used directly in robot simulations.
India's 1.5 million annual IT graduates face an industry that's moving on without them
A Bloomberg report reveals how agentic AI is shaking up India’s massive IT industry. Companies like Infosys are spending weeks retraining new hires because the country’s universities aren’t keeping up with reality.
Google has released a native Gemini app for Mac, marking the first desktop version of its AI assistant alongside the existing smartphone apps.
The app can be called up anytime with a keyboard shortcut (Option + Space), no need to leave whatever program you're currently using. Users can share their screen content with Gemini to do things like summarize complex diagrams. Local files, Google Drive, Photos, and NotebookLM can all be pulled in as well.
Available tools include image, video, and music generation, along with Deep Research and Canvas. The app is free, requires macOS 15 or later, and is available worldwide at gemini.google/mac. Google says more features are coming in the months ahead.
Apple is sending some of its Siri developers back to school. Fewer than 200 engineers will go through a multi-week bootcamp to learn how to use AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex, according to The Information.
The reason: Apple's Siri team has been seen internally as sluggish for years and fell behind modern AI developments like ChatGPT. Apple plans to unveil a completely revamped Siri at its WWDC developer conference in June. The new version is expected to run on Google's Gemini model and be significantly more conversational.
After the bootcamp, around 60 people will stay on the core development team, with another 60 tasked with monitoring Siri's performance and safety. Apple had already restructured the Siri team in early 2025, placing it under software chief Craig Federighi. Former AI lead John Giannandrea is leaving Apple for good this week.
To better steer clear of legal issues, Byteplus has put several protective measures in place: realistic human faces can't be used as source material, and filters are designed to block the generation of copyrighted content. Approved customers get access to a library of over 10,000 virtual people or can obtain explicit permission from real individuals. Byteplus also uses the C2PA standard, which labels AI-generated content as such.
Seedance 2.0 is available as a prepaid API via BytePlus ModelArk, supporting multimodal inputs (text, image, video, audio) to generate, edit, or extend 4–15 second MP4 videos at up to 720p. Full tech specs and code samples are on the API documentation page.
Adobe is introducing the Firefly AI Assistant, which handles complex creative workflows across Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and Lightroom through a single chat interface. Users describe what they want in plain language, and the assistant runs through the necessary steps automatically, though they can jump in and make changes at any point.
"Creative Skills" lets users kick off multi-step processes with a single command, like adapting an image for multiple social media platforms at once. Adobe also plans to connect it to chat platforms like Anthropic's Claude. A public beta is expected to ship in the coming weeks. The assistant builds on "Project Moonlight," a prototype Adobe demoed at Adobe MAX.
Adobe is also expanding Firefly with AI-powered video and image editing tools, including audio cleanup, advanced color controls, and image adjustments. The platform now supports more than 30 AI models, including Kling 3.0.
