News & Reviews:   GenAI

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%.

Google recently announced that you can create songs and music using Gemini with their newly released Lyria 3 model. Now, it is officially available in Malaysia from the Gemini app.

Google Malaysia recently announced new updates for Veo 3.1, This includes enhanced Ingredients to Video, so you can better convert uploaded reference images into more dynamic video. 

Generative AI is becoming faster, more realistic and easier to use for creating images and videos. While some people can still easily identify these images and videos, many people can't. Without further ado, here's how to detect AI-generated images with Circle-to-Search and Google Gemini.