Billionaire Marc Benioff announced he is switching from ChatGPT to Google's Gemini 3 after using ChatGPT daily for three years, citing Gemini 3's superior capabilities.
AI predictions for 2026 highlight a shift to proactive personal agents that handle multi-step tasks autonomously, as forecasted by Gemini.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 supports up to 1 million token context windows, matching Gemini, and excels in articulate text generation.
Gemini 4 is anticipated with breakthrough multimodal capabilities, PhD-level reasoning, and over 1 million token context windows, set for 2026 launch.
Google plans to fully phase out the old Assistant on most Android devices in favor of Gemini by early 2026.
AI-driven workforce reductions are accelerating, with corporations across sectors explicitly acknowledging that AI now performs work previously done by humans, leading to massive layoffs and a widening gap between AI-native and legacy companies[2].
Sam Altman and Jony Ive are set to release their AI hardware, generating significant buzz, though initial sales are expected to be modest[1].
Apple is reportedly in deep discussions with Google to integrate Gemini into Siri, aiming to finally deliver the advanced Siri and Apple Intelligence features promised nearly two years ago[1].
Anthropic is testing Claude Tasks mode, which separates planning from execution to function as a workflow runner with visible steps and user intervention.[5]
OpenAI shipped GPT Image 1.5 directly inside ChatGPT, improving text rendering, composition control, and iterative edits within a single thread.[5]
Google launched Gemini 3 Flash as a high-speed model, alongside Gemini 3 which delivers state-of-the-art multimodal reasoning integrated into Google Search and Android apps.[1][5]