Apple launches an 'Answers, Knowledge, and Information' team to develop a ChatGPT-like system that crawls the web and provides direct answers, aiming to enhance its AI capabilities with potential integration into Siri and other products.
AI agents now integrate directly with enterprise databases, streamlining data access but raising accuracy and security concerns that developers must address through standardized tools or custom integrations.
Google introduces SmallThinker, a family of powerful AI language models optimized for memory-constrained devices, outperforming larger models on benchmarks while operating smoothly on devices with as little as 1-8GB RAM.
Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth AI system maps the entire planet's surface using satellite data, compressing petabytes of information into compact summaries, enabling environmental monitoring and data-driven decision-making for conservation and resource management.
Meta's AI chatbots, intended to aid education, have sparked a cheating surge in rural Colombia, with students failing exams despite submitting AI-generated homework, forcing teachers to rethink assessment methods to ensure authentic learning.
Krea unveils open weights for its FLUX.1 image model, promising superior aesthetics and image quality by curating data and calibrating outputs to address the 'AI look', with plans to expand capabilities and offer personalized aesthetics.
Uber Eats rolls out AI-driven menu descriptions, photo editing tools that can earn customers credits, and a Live Order Chat for direct communication between businesses and customers.
In a major shift, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI with 32% enterprise market share as code generation emerges as AI's killer app, while open-source adoption stalls at 13% due to performance gaps, and enterprises rapidly upgrade to frontier models for performance gains over cost savings.
The U.S. Army unveils a groundbreaking $10 billion enterprise deal with Palantir, revolutionizing its software procurement model to increase agility, transparency, and cost savings through flexible, enterprise-wide licensing agreements.
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth, an AI model that processes satellite data to generate detailed digital maps of the entire planet, enabling tracking of environmental changes and aiding conservation efforts by organizations like the UN.