#product-launch

Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, combining frontier performance with agentic capabilities. The new Managed Agents API provisions a full sandboxed agent environment with a single API call.

Meta's Private Processing technology uses Trusted Execution Environments to isolate Meta AI conversations inside WhatsApp, so neither Meta employees nor third parties can access them.

PwC will roll out Claude Code and Cowork across its global workforce, launching a 30,000-staff certification program and a joint Center of Excellence. Insurance underwriting cycles already cut from 10 weeks to 10 days.

At the Android Show on May 12, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new laptop category built around Gemini Intelligence. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are manufacturing partners. Key features include Magic Pointer (Gemini-powered AI cursor) and vibe-coded custom widgets. Devices launch fall 2026.

OpenAI launched GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper — new voice API models covering live reasoning, real-time translation across 70+ languages, and streaming transcription. The Realtime API is now generally available for production use.

Google announced Gemini Intelligence on May 12 at the Android Show: I/O Edition. Starting on Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer, it enables multi-step task automation across apps, custom widget creation, and voice-to-text message polishing.

UK-based Humanoid on May 13 signed a binding phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler to place up to 2,000 wheeled humanoid robots across global manufacturing sites by 2032, starting with two German plants in late 2026.

Google DeepMind on May 12 unveiled Magic Pointer, a Gemini-powered AI cursor that reads visual and semantic context around the pointer to provide instant help without opening a separate AI chat window.

OpenAI on May 11 spun up OpenAI Deployment Company with $4 billion in initial funding and 19 global partners. The majority-owned subsidiary embeds Forward Deployed Engineers inside enterprises to redesign workflows around frontier AI.

OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant with GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model for all users including free tier on May 5. The model delivers smarter, more concise answers with improved personalization based on past chats, files, and Gmail integrations.

Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $30B in Q1 2026 — an 80-fold quarterly surge CEO Dario Amodei called 'too hard to handle.' To cope, the company rented SpaceX's entire Colossus data center (220K NVIDIA GPUs) and doubled Claude Code rate limits across all paid tiers.

Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork for iOS and Android on May 5, integrating it with Agent 365 for centralized AI governance. Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats crossed 20 million and Azure grew 40% year-over-year.