Author: Art Ryan

Dubai, UAE – May 2025 — Thank you for joining us at Dubai FinTech Summit 2025. Your participation was instrumental in the overwhelming success of this landmark event, which united global industry leaders, innovators, and policymakers to shape the next era of financial technology. Held in one of the world’s most dynamic financial hubs, the summit served as a powerful platform for collaboration, discovery, and future-forward conversations. This year’s theme focused on “Empowering the Financial Ecosystem Through Innovation”, and the event delivered on that promise with unmatched energy and vision. A Global Stage for FinTech Innovation The summit featured a…

Berlin, Germany – May 21, 2025 – GITEX EUROPE 2025 officially kicks off today, transforming Messe Berlin into a global hub of tech innovation, collaboration, and visionary leadership. Running from May 21 to 23, this premier event is bringing Africa’s rising tech force to the heart of Europe, spotlighting bold ideas and groundbreaking solutions that are reshaping industries. Africa Meets the World in Berlin In a defining moment for the global tech scene, African innovators are making a powerful entrance at GITEX EUROPE. From dynamic startups to seasoned disruptors, participants are showcasing how African-born technology is solving real-world challenges—not just…

Google I/O 2025, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, takes place Tuesday and Wednesday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. We’re on the ground bringing you the latest updates from the event. I/O showcases product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We’ve got plenty of news relating to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and — of course — Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini. Google hosted a separate event dedicated to Android updates: The Android Show. The company announced new ways to find lost Android phones and other items, additional device-level features for its Advanced Protection program, security tools to protect against scams and theft,…

Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it’s rolling out Project Mariner, the company’s experimental AI agent that browses and uses websites, to more users and developers. Google also says it’s significantly updated how Project Mariner works, allowing the agent to take on nearly a dozen tasks at a time. U.S. subscribers to Google’s new $249.99-per-month AI Ultra plan will get access to Project Mariner, and the company says support for more countries is coming soon. Google also says it’s bringing Project Mariner’s capabilities to the Gemini API and Vertex AI, allowing developers to build out applications powered by the agent. First unveiled in…

At Google I/O 2025, the company unveiled a slew of new AI Workspace features coming to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Vids. Most notably, Gmail is getting personalized smart replies and a new inbox-cleaning feature, while Vids is getting new ways to create and edit content. Personalized smart replies in Gmail will help you draft emails that match your context and tone. The feature will show details from your past emails and Google Drive to provide response suggestions with relevant information. Google says the feature will get rid of the need to dig through your inbox and files for yourself. Personalized…

Google is taking on Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta glasses by announcing new partnerships at Google I/O 2025 with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to create smart glasses based on Android XR. Google launched the Android XR platform with Qualcomm and Samsung last year. While it didn’t talk about specific devices then, the latest announcement indicates the company wants to build multiple iterations of glasses and headsets with different partners. On Tuesday, the company also said it would expand its partnership with Samsung to XR glasses. It added that both companies are developing a software and a hardware reference platform for developers to build solutions…

Google announced on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025 that Project Astra — the company’s low latency, multimodal AI experience — will power an array of new experiences in Search, the Gemini AI app, and products from third-party developers. Most notably, Project Astra is powering a new Search Live feature in Google Search. When using AI Mode, Google’s AI-powered search feature, or Lens, the company’s visual search feature, users can click the “Live” button to ask questions about what they’re seeing through their smartphone’s camera. Project Astra streams live video and audio into an AI model, and responds with answers to users’ questions with little…

At the Google I/O 2025 developer conference, Google launched Stitch, an AI-powered tool to help design web and mobile app front ends by generating the necessary UI elements and code. Stitch can be prompted to create app UIs with a few words or even an image, providing HTML and CSS markup for the designs it generates. Users can choose between Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash AI models to power Stitch’s code and interface ideation. Stitch arrives as so-called vibe coding — programming using code-generating AI models — continues to grow in popularity. There’s a number of large tech startups…

Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it’s bringing real-time speech translation to Google Meet. The feature leverages a large language audio model from Google DeepMind to allow for a natural, free-flowing conversation with someone in a different language, Google says. Speech translation in Meet translates spoken words into the listener’s preferred language in real time. Voice, tone, and expression are all preserved in the translation. The tech giant says the new feature has a variety of use cases. For instance, it can be used for English-speaking grandchildren talking to their Spanish-speaking grandparents. Or, it could be used by companies that operate…

Google is launching a way to quickly check whether an image, video, audio file, or snippet of text was created using one of its AI tools. SynthID Detector, announced Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, is a verification portal that uses Google’s SynthID watermarking technology to help identify AI-generated content. Users can upload a file, and SynthID Detector will determine whether the whole sample — or just a part of it — is AI-created. The debut of SynthID Detector comes as AI-generated media floods the web. The number of deepfake videos alone skyrocketed 550% from 2019 to 2024, according to one estimate. Per The…

Google announced at Google I/O 2025 that it is making the AI model that powers its experimental music production app, MusicFX DJ, available via an API. The model, Lyria RealTime, is now in Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio platform. It can mix musical genres, change instruments, and alter the mood of AI-generated music, giving users control over the key, tempo, brightness, and other song characteristics and elements. The launch of Lyria RealTime via API comes amidst an explosion of AI-powered music apps. There’s Udio and Suno, as well as the recently debuted Riffusion — among many others. Many of these have proven to be controversial,…

Google’s Gemini AI app now has more than 400 million monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said during a press briefing ahead of Google I/O 2025. Google’s AI chatbot app is now approaching a similar scale to OpenAI’s ChatGPT app. According to recent court filings, Google estimated in March that ChatGPT had around 600 million MAUs, whereas Gemini only had 350 million MAUs. The rise of ChatGPT presents a significant threat to Google’s Search business, offering users with a new, more interactive way to access information on the web. The Gemini app is Google’s most direct challenge to compete with OpenAI in…

ORLANDO — At its annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) unveiled innovations and partnerships that put the power of Business AI in every user’s hands, revolutionizing the way work gets done. From a virtually omnipresent Joule assistant to an expanded network of Joule Agents that work across systems and lines of business, SAP heralds a new era that democratizes access to Business AI and can drive productivity gains of up to 30 percent. “SAP combines the world’s most powerful suite of business applications with uniquely rich data and the latest AI innovations to create a flywheel of customer value,” said SAP…

-H2O.ai, the leading open-source Generative AI and Predictive AI platform, announced new features for its flagship enterprise platform, h2oGPTe, at Dell Technologies World 2025. The updates strengthen H2O.ai’s integration with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, helping enterprises deploy Sovereign AI—secure, production-ready, and customer-controlled—across use cases like fraud, customer service, and risk operations. Built for real-world enterprise environments, h2oGPTe gives teams full control over how AI is deployed and used—whether in private cloud, on-premises, or hybrid setups. These updates, including support for RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), are particularly relevant for banks, telecoms and governments seeking compliant, controllable, and cost-efficient AI systems. New Features…

Shop with AI Mode lets users find, try on, and buy clothing in Google Search using personal photos and live price tracking.Google today announced Shop with AI Mode. This new AI-powered shopping experience combines visual inspiration, real-time product data, and a virtual dressing room – all embedded within Search. Why we care. This tool could be good news for brands, as it should make it easier for shoppers to discover products you sell, try them on virtually using personal photos, and buy them at the right price. How it works. AI Mode uses Gemini AI and Google’s 50-billion-item Shopping Graph to…

Microsoft is replacing ‘Copilot Runtime’ with Windows AI Foundry to help developers build, experiment, and reach users with AI experiences in their apps. Windows AI Foundry will not only include Microsoft’s model but other open-source models as well, including those from Nvidia, such as NVIDIA NIM. With these models, developers can integrate new AI experiences and models in their applications. “In addition, Windows AI Foundry offers ready-to-use AI APIs that are powered by Windows inbox models on Copilot+ PCs for key language and vision tasks, like text intelligence, image description, text recognition, custom prompt and object erase,” Microsoft announced in…

NVIDIA today announced at the Computex confence in Taiwan NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton — an AI platform with a compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications with tens of thousands of GPUs from a network of cloud providers, including CoreWeave, Crusoe, Firmus, Foxconn, GMI Cloud, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale, Softbank Corp. and Yotta Data Services. The platforms will offer NVIDIA Blackwell and other NVIDIA architecture GPUs on the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace. Developers can tap into GPU compute capacity in specific regions for both on-demand and long-term computing, supporting strategic and sovereign AI operational requirements. Leading cloud service providers…

Microsoft’s GitHub unit on Monday introduced a Copilot artificial intelligence agent that can take on specific programming work and inform people once it has finished. From there, developers can check the agent’s work from GitHub, a widely used repository for code. They can request modifications and then allow GitHub to add the source code to existing files. The launch, announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle, shows that the technology company wants to make AI a more natural part of the process of enhancing software. The coding agent might help Microsoft distinguish its developer tools from alternatives from companies such as Atlassian and GitLab. “Using state-of-the-art…

Employees trying to answer questions as part of their jobs, researchers wading through medical records, developers analyzing client needs – everybody wants information at their fingertips. AI has made that possible in many ways. Now, AI agents are helping people take the next step in delivering business value. Agents use AI to automate and execute business processes, working alongside or on behalf of a person, team or organization. Companies are asking developers to create entire teams of AI agents specialized in certain tasks, and developers are using agents themselves to work faster. According to Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index, 46 percent of leaders…

On May 19, 2025, in advance of Computex, Intel launches Arc Pro B60 and B50 graphics processing units for workstations and AI inference, expanding the Arc Pro family with larger memory configurations and expanded software support. During the May 20-23 event in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel marks 40 years of collaboration with local ecosystem partners and expands its GPU lineup, AI accelerator capabilities and AI assistant availability. (Credit: Intel Corporation) at Computex 2025, Intel unveils a new lineup of graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI accelerators designed for professionals and developers. Intel’s announcements include: Celebrating 40 Years in Taiwan This week’s…