The 3 biggest bombshells from this week’s AI extravaganza

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Basketball has March Madness. Tech has the Consumer Electronics Show. AI has been waiting for its big moment—and this week may finally be it. With Microsoft’s Build and Google’s I/O developer conferences happening back-to-back, it was already primed to be a big week. Microsoft announced 50 new AI tools alone, and Google followed up with its own slate just a day later. Then, out of the blue, Anthropic dogpiled with Claude 4, the latest version of its large language model (LLM), on Thursday. While the maelstrom of announcements included some gee-whiz trinkets (we’re looking at you, Google Virtual Try-On), anyone looking to build a business with AI should find plenty to look forward to and even some new tools to use immediately. Struggling to keep up? Here are the biggest announcements from every company, and how they’ll reshape the AI landscape in the coming ... Read full article.