US Army awards contract to Swarmbotics AI for developing swarming unmanned ground vehicles that operate in coordinated groups to overwhelm enemies with multiple simultaneous threats, offering cost-effective force multiplication for the 1st Cavalry Division starting January 2026.
Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI agents for automating accounting, trading reconciliation, and client onboarding, with embedded engineers building autonomous systems that executives expect will accelerate processes and limit future hiring rather than trigger immediate layoffs.
Waymo's chief safety officer confirms that remote operators in the Philippines provide only guidance to robotaxis during challenging situations, while the autonomous vehicles retain full control of all driving decisions and tasks.
Waymo launches revolutionary AI system that generates hyper-realistic driving simulations of rare scenarios like natural disasters and animal encounters, allowing engineers to test autonomous vehicles in dangerous situations impossible to replicate safely in real-world conditions.
Security researchers discover critical flaws in 7.1% of ClawHub's nearly 4,000 skills that expose sensitive credentials, while over 30,000 OpenClaw instances remain dangerously exposed online, prompting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to issue urgent security alerts about the platform's extensive enterprise system access risks.
AI.com launches autonomous agents that independently trade stocks, manage dating profiles, and organize calendars for users, with the platform creating personalized AI assistants in just 60 seconds under leadership of Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek.
China introduces groundbreaking regulations requiring AI companion apps to warn users about addiction and intervene during emotional crises, while Indonesia mandates environmental impact assessments for AI development as global data centers threaten to emit 180 million tons of CO2 annually by 2027.
Scientists successfully teleport quantum light 30 kilometers through active fiber optic cables carrying regular internet traffic at 400 gigabits per second, proving quantum and classical networks can share existing infrastructure for future quantum computing and enhanced encryption.
Google Cloud contributes gRPC transport package for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, with Spotify and other companies backing the initiative that promises reduced bandwidth and CPU overhead while sparking debate over AI-first design versus traditional RPC system compatibility.
Major US companies including Amazon and HP blame artificial intelligence for over 54,000 layoffs in 2025, but economists expose this as 'AI washing' - a deceptive tactic to hide the real culprits of tariffs, pandemic overhiring, and profit maximization behind tech-savvy excuses.