Mashable Selects Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more In My Bag Look Up Creator Playbook Say More AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age All Series OpenAI is coming after Meta's Muse AI personal assistant. Matt Binder joined Mashable's tech vertical in 2018, where he covers social media, tech policy, cybersecurity, online scams, cryptocurrency, AI, creator news, weird tech, and other related tech beats. OpenAI unveiled quite a few new products at DevDay 2026. September is a big month for Big Tech events, where companies showcase their latest products. And now, OpenAI has just joined the party with DevDay 2026 in San Francisco.

Yesterday's Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote teased a lot of what users can expect this fall when big iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS updates hit their devices. Changes coming include RCS support in Messages, a new Passwords app, a revamped Calculator app for iPhone and iPad and a bunch of artificial intelligence (AI) infusions across the board with the new "Apple Intelligence" system. The latter will bring some of the biggest updates to Apple devices in years, including generative AI image creation, "Genmoji" custom emojis, text summarization and even some ChatGPT integration as well. If you weren't able to catch the news live, here's a rundown of everything announced at WWDC 2024. Apple revealed its plans to incorporate AI into its operating systems at WWDC this year.

While Apple's new AI features might have been centre stage at WWDC, the company also introduced several major changes to the iPhone's operating system. Due to launch in autumn this year, iOS 18 is set to give Apple users even more options to customise their devices. But from the ability to lock or hide apps to new ways to send messages, some of these features have left Apple fans divided. While some tech fans have praised the'mind boggling' new tools, others say they will make cheating in relationships easier. One commenter on X, formerly Twitter, even wrote: 'The new Apple iOS is designed purely for cheating'.

The Game Awards are done and the video game marketing machine is winding down for the year, but this industry never fully stops. This week, we're taking a look at what The Game Awards could have done better (a few things, it turns out) and breaking down some of the biggest announcements from last week's show. We're gonna talk about The Game Awards a lot this week, but one of the biggest announcements from last Thursday's show was the existence of Light No Fire, a new title from No Man's Sky studio Hello Games. It's a planet-sized, multiplayer game about exploration and community-building, and it uses procedural generation to fill every valley and mountaintop with life. There's no release date for Light No Fire just yet, but Hello Games has been working on it for five years. Also at The Game Awards, we saw the reveal of a Blade game from Arkane Lyon, OD from Kojima Productions, Windblown from Dead Cells studio Motion Twin, and Exodus from Archetype Entertainment, a studio composed of BioWare, 343 and Naughty Dog veterans.

Google's big developer conference had a lot to get through. That included the Pixel Fold (more on that below), a new Pixel A-series phone for only $500, a tablet, Android 14, a faster, more sophisticated AI language model, and lots more tricks for AI chatbot Bard. Coming soon, Bard will be able to analyze images and integrate into Google apps, like Gmail and GDocs. And if you haven't dabbled with Bard yet – no more waiting list. And while Google had media and analysts captive, it showed off its holographic meeting experience, Project Starline, two years after it first appeared.

Publisher Devolver Digital also revealed its next big indie game called "Cult of the Lamb," an action RPG with roguelike and dungeon crawler elements. Players assume the role of a possessed lamb and build a flock of deceptively cute woodland creatures to become the biggest, baddest satanic cult around. It's developed by Massive Monster, the creators behind "Adventure Pals," a platformer whose art and humor took a page from cartoons like "Adventure Time." Its release date is scheduled for 2022.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic putting large gatherings on hold, Microsoft Build – the technology giant's annual developer conference – went ahead this week, albeit virtually. The company announced numerous new features for the future of its operating system, Windows 10, including a search-bar similar to Spotlight on Apple's computers and "Fluid Office" – a competitor to Google's suite of online office applications such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Fluid Office is currently available as a preview, and works akin to a version of Microsoft Office content that exists on the web. This contrasts from typical online services in a number of ways. Google Docs, and to a lesser extent Apple's Pages, let users create a document or table that can be shared in its totality quickly and easily via a link or through downloading the file.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just wrapped up the keynote at the company's big developer conference, Microsoft BUILD. This year, the keynote was a wild ride through the future of what Microsoft thinks the world will look like, but in between the philosophy quotes and visions of dystopias where you have Skype embedded in your car dashboard, Microsoft actually did reveal a few new projects and products. This year is all about software, AI, distributed computing, and the "multi-device" experience. In case it wasn't clear before, Microsoft wants to make it clear that it doesn't care if you're using a Windows PC, a Mac, an Android phone, or anything else that can access the internet. It just wants you to be using its platform and its software to do so, and that's at the core of everything the company announced today.

After two days of Microsoft Build keynotes, we've seen a lot. One time Microsoft pulled away a wall to reveal a demo meeting room. It was truly a thrilling event. But mixed within all of that were some exciting announcements: new Windows features, improvements for voice assistants, and helpful new cloud services. Much of it won't be widely available until later this year, but here's the most exciting stuff that Microsoft had to share.

Google's Pixel event today confirmed a lot of leaks and rumors, but it also held some surprises and software upgrades developed with machine learning. Marking its second year making hardware, Google announced the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL; an interesting new camera called Google Clips; a new Google Home Mini and Max; a Pixelbook, and an updated Google Daydream. If you missed any of it, we have the biggest announcements right here. They have the same camera, processor, and speaker specs. They have 12.2-megapixel rear cameras that have an autofocus with laser and dual-pixel phase detection, and optical and electronic image stabilization. In the front, the Pixels have a fixed-focus 8-megapixel camera.