Today’s top tech headlines feature major AI advancements, hardware launches, and enterprise shifts across global players.
🤖 AI & Big Tech
Amazon expanded Alexa+ to the web, intensifying competition with ChatGPT and Gemini through agentic workflows.
Spotify reports its top developers haven’t coded since December, crediting AI tools like Claude Code and internal system Honk for massive productivity gains.
Anthropic and Infosys partnered to develop agentic AI solutions for Indian enterprises, highlighted at the AI Impact Summit projecting over $200 billion in AI investments for India.
- India AI Impact Summit is underway this week, drawing major names including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Demis Hassabis of DeepMind. India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to speak alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, and Indian conglomerate Adani announced plans to allocate $100 billion to build AI data centers using renewable energy by 2035. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw called AI the 5th Industrial Revolution amid talks of massive investments.
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman revealed that India accounts for more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users — second only to the U.S.
- An experiment called Moltbook, an online platform populated by AI agents interacting with one another, sparked debate in tech circles — though observers noted it was also flooded with crypto scams and many posts were written by humans.
💻 Cybersecurity
- North Korean job scammers are targeting JavaScript and Python developers with fake interview tasks designed to spread malware.
- Canada Goose confirmed a data leak, with around 600,000 customers thought to be affected.
- X (formerly Twitter) experienced a major outage earlier this week.
📱 Hardware & Platforms
- High-bandwidth memory (HBM) has become the scarcest component in the AI supply chain, with AI accelerators consuming an outsized share of advanced packaging capacity, causing tighter DRAM availability and rising spot prices affecting everything from PCs to smartphones.
- Samsung unveiled new premium tandem OLED monitor technology, though questions remain about how much of a real-world difference it will make for consumers.
🌐 Platforms & Social Media
- OpenAI switched off ChatGPT-4o, prompting a backlash from users backing a #keep4o campaign to restore it.
- So many Discord users are flocking to an alternative platform called Stoat that it has been crashing under the load.
🔬 Science & Innovation
- China’s ultra-precise optical lattice clock — described as accurate to 1 second in tens of billions of years — is receiving international recognition and is being framed as a challenge to U.S. dominance in global timekeeping standards.
Hardware & Devices
YouTube launched a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, two years after its debut.
Samsung Galaxy A27 5G appeared in IMEI databases, signaling an imminent launch, while Galaxy S26 Ultra rumors point to selfie camera upgrades.
Valve confirmed Steam Deck OLED is out of stock due to RAM and storage shortages.
India-Focused News
Android XR OS leaked in screenshots, promising a clean spatial interface for XR devices.