Google Lyria 3 Pro Generates 3-Minute Tracks With a Licensing Claim

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 26, 2026

Key Highlights – In February 2026, Lyria 3 landed in the Gemini app with a 30-second ceiling. Useful for short clips, not much else. Google has now released Lyria 3 Pro, which can now generate a full 3-minute track with enough compositional understanding to respond to prompts for specific song sections rather than just a general style direction. The model can handle complex transitions, genre experimentation, and vocal or instrumental specifications in a single generation. The rollout covers six platforms at once. Paid Gemini subscribers access it directly in the app, with generation limits ranging from 10 to 50 tracks […]

ChatGPT Gets Visual Shopping Drops Instant Checkout

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Shopping While Retreating From Checkout

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 26, 2026

Key Highlights – ChatGPT has had a shopping function for a while. What OpenAI shipped this week is a meaningful upgrade to how it looks and works with products. This includes side-by-side comparisons, image uploads to find similar items, and fresher catalog data pulled directly from participating merchants. The rollout covers all tiers, not just paid subscribers. For most users, the practical change is that product research that previously sent you across multiple tabs can now stay inside a single conversation thread. That is the feature. The more interesting development is what OpenAI admitted in the same announcement. The Instant […]

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora & the Disney Deal With It

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 25, 2026

Key Highlights – OpenAI launched Sora in September 2025 with the kind of energy that looked, briefly, like it could reshape short-form video. It hit one million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT’s own early trajectory, and sat at the top of the App Store within a week. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it is shutting the whole thing down. The official explanation is brief. OpenAI said compute demand is growing and the company is focusing its resources elsewhere. The Sora research team will continue work on “world simulation research to advance robotics.” That framing tells you where […]

Claude Can Now Control Your Mac & Here’s How It Actually Works

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 24, 2026

Key Highlights – Anthropic has given Claude the ability to control a Mac. As of March 23, Pro and Max subscribers can grant Claude permission to move the cursor, click, type, open applications, browse the web, and interact with desktop software — all within a sandboxed environment inside Cowork and Claude Code. The feature is a research preview, and Anthropic has been upfront that it is not yet a finished product. What is worth paying attention to is not just that Anthropic built this, but how they chose to build it. The Integration-First Architecture Most computer-use implementations treat screen control […]

Anthropic Is Building a Project Layer for Claude Cowork

Anthropic Is Adding Projects and Folders to Claude Cowork

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 20, 2026

Key Highlights – Anthropic is not done building out Cowork. Pre-release UI spotted by TestingCatalog shows a project creation flow in development for Claude Cowork on Desktop, one that would turn the tool from a session-based agent into a persistent, organised workspace. The difference might matter more than it sounds. The addition spotted by TestingCatalog shows a project creation flow within Cowork on Desktop. Users would be able to attach an existing local folder or create a new one during setup, tying files, instructions, and ongoing work to a defined project rather than starting fresh each time. What the Project […]

Gamma Imagine launches to expand AI design beyond presentations

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 18, 2026

Today, Gamma announced Gamma Imagine, which is a new AI-powered design tool that allows you to create standalone visual assets. In case you are unaware, Gamma is a platform that allows users to create websites and presentations with the help of AI. At a time when teams are expected to produce more branded content across multiple channels, Gamma appears to be positioning “Imagine” as an all-in-one AI design solution. The company says Gamma Imagine is built to work like a human designer. It can automatically apply brand identity while allowing users to improve outputs using natural language prompts. Gamma Imagine […]

The U.S. President accuses Iran of using AI to spread fake war narratives

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 16, 2026

The ongoing war between Israel, the US, and Iran continues to fuel political tension. Alongside it, media is under massive scrutiny. As the headlines around the war have become the major talk of the hour, the information battle surrounding the conflict is becoming just as intense. At a time when artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing how information spreads online, concerns about manipulated media and propaganda are also growing. That debate just took a new turn on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of using AI to spread misleading narratives about the war. Trump accuses Iran of weaponizing AI […]

Meta’s Avocado AI Model Delayed & Now Might License Google’s Gemini

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 13, 2026

Key Highlights – Meta had positioned the first quarter of 2026 as its moment to reassert itself in the AI race. That moment has now been pushed back by at least two months, and the circumstances around the delay reveal that the company is under considerably more strain than its public communications have suggested. The New York Times, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, reported Thursday that Avocado, Meta’s next-generation text AI model developed inside the newly formed TBD Lab, will not launch until May at the earliest. A Meta spokesperson offered a measured response: the next model […]

Anthropic Seeks Court Stay on Pentagon’s “Supply-Chain Risk” Label

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 12, 2026

The past few weeks have been tough for Anthropic. The California-based AI company and OpenAI rival Anthropic is now in a legal dispute with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The reason? Well, Anthropic has denied the Pentagon’s demand for unrestricted access to its AI models in military settings. In the negotiations table, the AI company had been seeking assurances from the Pentagon that its AI systems would not be used for certain activities, including mass surveillance of Americans or the deployment of autonomous weapons. After the company refused, the Pentagon handed the DoD deal to OpenAI and labeled Anthropic […]

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Google Maps just got updated with Gemini-powered “Ask Maps” & “Immersive Navigation” feature

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 12, 2026

Google is gradually making Gemini-powered features available in its core apps. Today, the company has announced that it is rolling out a major Gemini-powered feature in Google Maps to change how people search for places and navigate roads. The two major features discussed by Google in its blog announcement are “Ask Maps” and “Immersive Navigation.” The company describes it as the biggest navigation overhaul in more than a decade. According to Google, these new features are designed to transform Maps beyond traditional search tools. As of now, we manually look for locations or places within Google Maps. Well, that’s completely […]

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