🤖India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app

📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

• 📱 Apple’s iOS 26.4 is in Public Beta

• 😵 December’s AWS Outage Was Due to its Own AI Coding Bot

• 🤠 Texas Could Soon Be the World’s Biggest Data Center Market

• 👨‍💻OpenAI launches EVMbench

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to create Chrome extensions using Claude Opus 4.6

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

🤖 India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up

Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, on Friday launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile users, entering a fast-growing market dominated by global players including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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📱 Apple’s iOS 26.4 is in Public Beta

Here’s a fun project for your weekend: Apple just released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 26.4 with several new features including an AI-powered playlist-generation feature in Apple Music, support for video content in the Podcasts app, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, and more.

😵 December’s AWS Outage Was Due to its Own AI Coding Bot

Remember when AWS went down mid-December? It was apparently friendly fire. Amazon’s cloud unit suffered at least two outages, one a 13-hour interruption, due to errors involving its own AI tools. The long outing occurred after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes

🤠 Texas Could Soon Be the World’s Biggest Data Center Market

Everything’s bigger in Texas and that now includes raw energy. A new report from JLL says Texas could overtake Northern Virginia and become the world’s largest data center market by 2030. Texas has 6.5 GW of capacity under construction due to its strength as a “frontier market” with power, land, and a clear path to permits.

👨‍💻OpenAI launches EVMbench

The company just launched EVMbench, an adversarial security benchmark designed to test an agent's ability to exploit and patch smart contracts securing over $100 billion in crypto. Technical results show GPT-5.3-Codex hitting a 72.2% success rate in exploit mode, more than doubling its predecessor's performance. While the model is a potent offensive tool, OpenAI is committing $10 million in credits to defensive research and $7.5 million to The Alignment Project to curb safety risks from misaligned AI.

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AI Tutorial

How to create Chrome extensions using Claude Opus 4.6

• Log in to Claude and select Opus 4.6

• Generate the code for the extension. Use the prompt below.

Sample prompt: "Develop an extension that [how your extension should work, its features and how you can use it]. Generate the complete code, organize all the files into a folder, and create a downloadable folder named [Name of extension]"

• Download the files created by Claude.

• Extract the zip file and open Chrome's extensions manager.

• Enable "Developer mode" in the top right corner.

• Click "Load unpacked" and select your project folder.

• Activate the extension.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🕹️ Xbox’s Chief & President Are Both Leaving

😩 InScope Raised $14.5M to Solve Financial Reporting Headaches

💰ByteDance offers $800k+ packages to poach 100 US AI researchers

😬Anthropic brings Claude to PowerPoint as $200M Pentagon deal stalls

🤖Meta’s 65 million dollar play to keep AI regulation out of the states

⚡Reddit is turning its organic conversations into an AI shopping engine

🤖Deepmind veteran David Silver raises 1 billion dollars to build AI without LLMs

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