News & Reviews:   GenAI

Recently, Tidal announced that fully AI-generated music on the platform will now be given a label. At the same time, music without any human involvement will not receive any royalties from streaming on Tidal. Therefore, any music that imitates the artist's style will be removed. You will also be given the option to filter out AI-generated music entirely from appearing in the app.

Yes recently announced that they will offer an ILMUChat Pro subscription for free to all of their subscribers. Normally, ILMUChat Pro costs RM50 per month and you can get easy access via the MyYes app. If you didn’t know, ILMUChat is a Malaysian AI or LLM developed by YTL. No news on how long it will be available though, so if you’ve been wanting to try it, now may be the time.

The United States of America has ordered Anthropic to cut foreign access to both their Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, citing the usual “Security Concerns” as the reason. Many are saying this is because they’re afraid the Anthropic guardrails could get bypassed, but it’s also not the first time that AI has been used by hackers.

According to the Financial Times and Reuters, OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT into a Generative AI “Super App” . This includes more coding tools and AI agents that may allow it to overcome Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI already has the Atlas browser, Codex for coding and is partnering with Canva and Booking.com to round out its other features.

In what seems like a step in the right direction, Microsoft recently announced 7 new AI models of their own that have been trained on clean data. These are MAI Image-2.5, MAI Image-2.5-Flash, MAI Transcribe-1.5, MAI Thinking-1, MAI Voice-2, MAI Voice-2-Flash and MAI Code-1-Flash. Most LLMs (Large Language Models) are trained using public data which are usually not paid for. 

Google has recently revealed the Google Pics for Google Workspace landing page just a few hours ago. From the description of the features, it seems that it will be a new AI image generation and editing app built into Google Workspace like Slides. 

PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk (Emtek Group) recently announced their "Studio of the Future" vision using Google Cloud generative AI-based production technology to help revitalize an older 2013 animation work of theirs called Keluarga Somat. The new Keluarga Somat was recently aired in 2026 on Vidio and MentariTV Indonesia.

The Gemini roll-out continues as Google recently and officially announced Gemini in Chrome for Malaysia. Located in the top right corner under “Ask Gemini”, this opens up the Gemini Prompt window on the right of the currently opened tab. This allows it to read the information on Chrome and works across tabs. Check out all the details here.

It seems that a lot of brands are raising the prices for their smartphones. Rumour says that could include vivo and iQOO too. That said, what should you know about it?

According to Google, they've found that most of their users have gotten used to the new additions of AI and Gemini to Google Search and are now asking longer and more complex questions. They say that 5 trillion searches annually are now complemented enough by AI Overviews and AI Mode that the rate of irrelevant ads has been reduced by 40%.