Microsoft's CEO foresees AI revolutionizing healthcare through early disease detection, personalizing education, and boosting productivity, while venture capitalists at a16z warn voice AI could displace human labor by automating tasks, as Deepgram's VP highlights speech modeling hurdles and real-world use cases.
The UK and US forge a groundbreaking tech alliance, accelerating AI research for healthcare breakthroughs, unlocking clean energy through nuclear technology, and establishing the North East as an AI Growth Zone, attracting billions in investment and creating thousands of high-paying jobs.
Figure, a robotics company, secures $1 billion in funding at a $39 billion valuation, accelerating its efforts to deploy general-purpose humanoid robots in homes and businesses, while scaling GPU infrastructure and data collection initiatives.
YouTube revolutionizes video creation with groundbreaking AI tools that generate videos from text prompts, add motion, stylize content, insert objects, and generate music from speech, empowering creators with unprecedented creative capabilities.
Gemini AI achieves a groundbreaking milestone, securing a gold medal at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, solving 10 of 12 problems and outperforming all but the top university team, showcasing a profound leap in AI's abstract problem-solving capabilities.
Meta launches MobileLLM-R1, a breakthrough family of ultra-compact AI models with 140M to 950M parameters that excel at math and coding while running entirely on local devices, signaling a major industry shift from massive cloud-based models to specialized on-device AI that offers enhanced privacy and cost control.
A new survey reveals Americans are increasingly worried about artificial intelligence integration into daily life, with 53% fearing AI will damage creative thinking and 50% believing it will harm meaningful relationships, though majorities still support AI for analytical tasks like weather forecasting and financial crime detection.
Over 200 AI contractors working on improving Google's products like Gemini and AI Overviews are fired without warning amid union push and protests over poor pay, job insecurity, and alleged retaliation by outsourcing firm GlobalLogic.
MCP emerges as a vital AI infrastructure, powering top products from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, with a few key servers handling nearly half of all usage and supporting reading and writing operations for AI agents to interact with their environments.
Heartbroken parents plead with Congress as children tragically die by suicide after disturbing interactions with AI chatbots, prompting OpenAI to develop a teen-friendly ChatGPT with age verification while experts demand stricter regulations and accountability for child safety online.