<p>Google is upgrading its most capable Gemini AI models. On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company announced Deep Think, an &#8220;enhanced&#8221; reasoning mode for its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Deep Think allows the model to consider multiple answers to questions before responding, boosting its performance on certain benchmarks. &#8220;[Deep Think] pushes model performance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In addition to the rollout of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is gaining a new &#8220;agentic AI&#8221; capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered tool to help design web and mobile app front ends by generating the necessary UI elements and code. Stitch can be prompted to create app UIs with a few words or even an image, providing HTML and CSS markup for the designs it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini AI app now has more than 400 million monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said during a press briefing ahead of Google I/O 2025. Google&#8217;s AI chatbot app is now approaching a similar scale to OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT app. According to recent court filings, Google estimated in March that ChatGPT had around 600 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At Google I/O 2025, the company unveiled a slew of new AI Workspace features coming to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Vids. Most notably, Gmail is getting personalized smart replies and a new inbox-cleaning feature, while Vids is getting new ways to create and edit content. Personalized smart replies in Gmail will help you draft [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its Google I/O 2025 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced Flow, a new AI-powered video tool geared toward filmmaking. The company said it&#8217;s using a trio of its AI models — Veo for video generation, Imagen for image generation, and Gemini for text and prompting — to power the new tool. Flow is following [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI Ultra, which is U.S.-only for now, joins a growing group of ultra-premium AI subscriptions.</p>

<p>Apple sent invites for its developer-focused event, Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will be held from June 9 to June 13 with an &#8220;On the horizon&#8221; tagline. The company will likely announce new versions of its operating systems, namely iOS 19, iPadOS 19, watchOS 12, macOS 16, and visionOS 3. The developer conference is both [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Manus, the once-buzzy AI agent platform, on Tuesday launched a plan aimed at small businesses and organizations. The plan, dubbed Manus Team, starts at $39 per seat per month with a five-seat minimum, totaling $195 per month. Each team gets 19,500 credits in a sharable pool, as well as access to certain features in beta, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon Music announced Tuesday that it’s testing a new AI-powered search feature called “Explore,” designed to help fans learn more about their favorite artists.&nbsp; To use this feature, users can tap the “Find” button at the bottom of the screen and enter an artist’s name in the search bar. Then, by selecting the “Explore” tab [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A federal judge is asking Apple to approve Fortnite&#8217;s submission on the U.S. App Store or return to court to explain the legal basis as to why it has not done so. In a new filing, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers confirms the court has received Epic Games&#8217; latest motion, where it demands that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify announced on Monday that Apple has approved a new app update, allowing iPhone users in the U.S. to purchase individual audiobooks directly within the app. Users can also view audiobook prices and easily buy additional listening hours beyond the initial 15 hours. “This change lowers the barriers for more users to embrace their first [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced on Monday that it has officially released the NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS, a day before Google I/O 2025 and a day before the company said it would roll out. Since its&nbsp;launch in 2023, the AI-based note-taking and research assistant has only been accessible via desktop. Google has now made the service [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct revenue, but it can serve as a form of market research — and a funnel to paid applications and services. By contributing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is getting rid of developer onboarding fees for the Microsoft Store on Windows, the digital distribution platform for its flagship operating system, the company announced Monday during its Build 2025 conference. Starting June 2025, individual developers will be able to sign up and publish apps to the Microsoft Store without having to pay to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is launching new APIs for Edge, its web browser, to let developers incorporate AI functionality into web apps using models built into Edge. Unveiled at Build 2025, the AI APIs mirror some of the functionality in Google Chrome, which also offers &#8220;built-in AI&#8221; that developers can tap to power their web applications. Microsoft&#8217;s move [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games is escalating its efforts to pressure Apple to allow its game Fortnite into the App Store, with a new court filing asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require that Apple “accept any compliant version of Fortnite onto the U.S. storefront of the App Store.” Epic and Apple have been engaged in a years-long [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Creator platform&nbsp;Patreon has to modify its app to comply with Apple&#8217;s guidelines after a recent update allowed U.S. users to make purchases via the web. The company says that its own web-based checkout option is now the default for U.S. fans, but it has to update its app so that this checkout option opens in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Epic Games claims that Apple is blocking its Fortnite app from the U.S. and EU App Stores. After winning a decisive victory for app developers in a legal battle with Apple, forcing the tech giant to allow external payments in its U.S. App Store without charging commission, Epic Games attempted to resubmit Fortnite to the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to apps that it found were not using its own &#8220;private and secure payment system.&#8221; The [&hellip;]</p>