Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting
Zoom CTO XD Huang on bringing Steve Jobs to every meeting

Zoom has opened the speech recognition behind its My Notes tool to other companies, and is in conversation with some AI note-taking firms that are considering switching to it, chief technology officer XD Huang told TNW. He said Zoom wants AI that finis…

Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers
Jim Lanzone on Yahoo’s plan to fix AI search with more links to publishers

Yahoo already holds what AI agents ask people for first, their email and their calendar, CEO Jim Lanzone told TNW. He said Yahoo will launch more personalised, agentic products “in the months ahead”. Lanzone spoke to TNW in an exclusive interview at Hu…

Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “…

OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay
OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAI’s commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit on Pro 200. OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier….

Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year
Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

Google wants to release Gemini 4 “much earlier” than the end of the year, said Koray Kavukcuoglu, who runs Google DeepMind. The model is now in post-training, the stage where engineers refine its behaviour and test its safety. Google is also trying it …

Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns with 3,000 attendees and 600 investors
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns with 3,000 attendees and 600 investors

Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul on 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organisers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition r…

Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns in October with 600 investor
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns in October with 600 investor

Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul from 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organizers expect more than 3,000 attendees, 1,400 startups and 600 investors, up from about 1,700 attendees last year. The first edition…

Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs
Snapdragon Summit: Qualcomm’s 5GHz phone chips, AI earbuds and Linux PCs

Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief …

Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says
Deutsche Telekom is replacing phone menus with AI agents, its AI chief says

Deutsche Telekom is replacing the automated phone menus on its customer service lines with AI agents, chief AI officer Kartik Sheth said. The share of customer interactions that never reach a human grows by one or two percentage points every month, he …

Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT
Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a ‘dog’s dinner’ built before ChatGPT

AI labs cannot keep regulating themselves, Nick Clegg said. A growing backlash against AI shows up in cancelled data center projects, he said. The idea that labs can voluntarily do their own thing is “not going to work,” he said. Clegg is Meta’s former…