A new beta update for WhatsApp for Android features Meta AI integrated directly into the app's search bar. The new feature lets users ask questions through prompts within the search interface, making it easier to interact with Meta AI. WhatsApp is building an AI-powered tool for users to edit their photos, including adjusting the background, restyling, and expansion.

Brave Search has revamped its answer engine to include AI-synthesized responses worldwide, leveraging large language models and trusted data sources. The upgrade enables automatic or manual AI-enhanced answers to user queries. Brave acknowledges potential impacts on web publishers and plans to monitor and address the effects of AI-generated content on site traffic.

Adobe has integrated the generative AI model Firefly Image 3 into Photoshop, allowing users to generate images directly in the program. It also added the ability to use a reference image with its Generative Fill feature and a new feature to develop backgrounds for generating seamless backdrops, which is helpful for marketing and advertising physical products.

Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes an AI-powered tool called Intelligent Search. Intelligent Search leverages Apple's on-device AI technology to identify topics and key phrases within a web page to create summaries. The exact implementation of the feature is still unknown. The new Safari will also have a feature called Web Eraser that will allow users to remove specific portions of web pages. Apple is working on a powerful visual search feature that will allow users to obtain information on consumer products when browsing through images, scheduled for integration sometime in 2025.

Billions of Google users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of many of their search results. The AI Overviews are designed to take out the hard work of searching so users can focus on the important things. Google announced several other AI-powered features at its I/O developer conference, such as a feature in Lens that lets users search by capturing a video, a planning tool that can generate trip itineraries and meal plans with a single query, and suggestions within search results. While similar products have come under scrutiny for summarizing content and not directing users to the actual sources of information, Google says that early data shows that the new way of searching will actually lead to more clicks to the open web.

This article rounds up all of the major announcements Microsoft just made, including a new lineup of Copilot Plus PCs and generative AI-powered features like Recall, which helps users find apps, files, and other content they have viewed in the past.

Google Photos is reorganizing its "Library" into a "Collections" page, featuring a new layout with thumbnail shortcuts for faces, locations, and content types. This update, possibly in preparation for integrating Google's Gemini AI-powered "Ask Photos" function, replaces the search bar with shortcuts like favorites, selfies, and screenshots. There are reports of inconsistencies with the Gemini AI software.

Apple introduced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, focusing on integrating AI features into existing apps like Mail, Messages, and Siri. The platform uses large language models for tasks such as text summarization and image generation, aiming for a seamless user experience. A beta version will roll out in the U.S. this October, with broader international support planned for 2025.

Generative AI tools are coming to YouTube through Veo, a video generation model from DeepMind that enables creators to generate six-second Shorts clips and backgrounds with text prompts. AI-generated content will be watermarked with SynthID. Other AI updates include tools for titles, thumbnails, and video ideas. Creators persist in their concerns about AI content's impact on originality.

Figma's new AI feature enables users to convert content from FigJam boards into structured Figma Slides, making organizing brainstorming and research sessions easier. Users can select key elements from any FigJam board they have edit permission for and create a presentation based on specific parts like pages, diagrams, or sticky notes.