Google turned YouTube into a music studio, India is laying the foundation for global AI regulation, and humanoid robots have officially left the labs and entered homes. Together with Gemini 3 Pro, here's the latest tech news digest.
Artificial Intelligence
Lyria 3: a music studio in every smartphone
Google integrated the new Lyria 3 model into Gemini and YouTube. Users can now generate full 30-second tracks with vocals by simply sending a text prompt or photo.
India AI Impact Summit
A five-day summit is underway in New Delhi, gathering leaders from 45 countries and heads of major IT corporations. It's the first global forum of this scale in the Global South, where India promotes the "Three Sutras" concept (People, Planet, Progress). Participants are discussing creating sovereign data infrastructure that would let developing countries avoid dependence on cloud giants and build their own ethical AI systems.
Battle of Chinese LLMs: Qwen 3.5 and GLM-5
Alibaba released the multimodal Qwen 3.5 model, which outperformed Western counterparts in reasoning tests. In parallel, Zhipu AI launched GLM-5 — currently the most powerful open model on global benchmarks.
Robotics
1X Neo: humanoids officially enter homes
Norwegian-American 1X began shipping the first Neo robot units for "early access" in the US (delivery promised in Q1 2026). Unlike industrial models, Neo in its soft suit is designed specifically to work alongside children and pets: it can sort clothes, load dishes, and hold conversations via built-in LLM.
Tesla Cybercab: first vehicle rolls off the line
Giga Texas officially assembled the first production Cybercab without a steering wheel or pedals. Musk confirmed mass production starts in April at a price below $30,000, which should make personal car ownership optional.
Dragonwing IQ-10: new brain for humanoids
Qualcomm unveiled the world's first chip designed specifically to control humanoid robot movements. The processor lets machines process data from hundreds of sensors simultaneously with sub-millisecond latency.
Hardware
Memory crisis: Western Digital sold out through 2027
The manufacturer reported that all hard drive production capacity for 2026 has been bought up by AI corporations. Rising demand for data center storage has left regular consumers facing potential shortages and sharp price increases.
Apple Wearables: glasses and earbuds with eyes
Apple accelerated development of smart glasses and AirPods with cameras. The devices will feed visual context to the updated Siri, letting it literally see the world through the user's eyes and help in real time.
Meta buys millions of NVIDIA chips
Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang agreed on deliveries of the new Rubin accelerators. Meta is building massive data centers in Ohio and Louisiana to launch a "personal superintelligence" inside WhatsApp and Facebook.
Software
Fujitsu automates legacy code modernization
The Japanese corporation launched a platform based on the Takane LLM. The AI rewrote outdated banking systems in hours, a task that used to take a team of developers months.
GitHub Copilot: coding at Spark speed
Microsoft integrated the ultra-fast GPT-5.3 Spark model into its AI assistant. The system now analyzes project architecture in the background and suggests edits before the developer even presses a key.
Bionics: 3D mesh for neural communication
Researchers created a flexible electronic structure that can read live brain signals. The technology will enable next-generation interfaces for controlling computers directly with thought.