Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under
Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under

In short: Netflix has launched Netflix Playground, a dedicated standalone gaming app for children aged eight and under, bundled into existing memberships with no ads or in-app purchases and full offline support, positioning it squarely against Apple Ar…

Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify
Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without…

Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel
Bolt expands its Hopp ride-hailing brand into Canadian corporate travel

A year after its consumer launch in Toronto, Bolt’s North American brand Hopp has introduced a corporate mobility product targeting finance teams frustrated by fragmented expense reporting. It enters a market where Canada’s business travel spending was…

Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s
Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s

In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an…

Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI
Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI

Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, a…

Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster
Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster

Tencent Holdings has launched ClawPro, an enterprise AI agent management platform built on OpenClaw, the open-source framework that has become the fastest-growing project in GitHub’s history and the unlikely centrepiece of a national technology craze i…

IREX Launches Smarter, Faster Fire and Smoke AI Detection to Protect Communities and Critical Infrastructure
IREX Launches Smarter, Faster Fire and Smoke AI Detection to Protect Communities and Critical Infrastructure

[Washington, DC – April 2, 2026] – IREX, a global pioneer in ethical AI and intelligent video analytics deployed across 10+ countries and over 300,000 cameras, announced a major update to its FireTrack smoke and fire detection module. The update doesn’…

Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations

Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apache 2.0 licence is a significant shift from previous G…

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.
Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persisten…

Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities
Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities

The new service, available from today across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, lets guests pre-book airport and station transfers directly in the Airbnb app. It’s not available in the US, Canada, or Africa, yet. Airbnb has launched private car transfers…