Apple surges on a 13% increase in iPhone sales, reporting 10% revenue growth, its biggest since December 2021; CEO Tim Cook vows to 'significantly grow' AI investments, open to acquisitions accelerating its AI roadmap, while seeing a 4% sales boost in China aided by device subsidies.
AI deepfakes manipulate media with startling realism, blurring lines between real and fake through generative adversarial networks, posing risks like misinformation but also offering creative potential.
OpenAI researchers Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki drive the company's pursuit of artificial general intelligence, developing powerful reasoning models that can autonomously tackle complex coding, math, and scientific tasks over extended time periods.
A groundbreaking AI model, Command A Vision, seamlessly integrates text and image understanding, enabling enterprises to automate visual tasks with remarkable accuracy and efficiency while requiring minimal computational resources, paving the way for transformative enterprise automation.
AI image generators produce flawed images with floating objects and unnatural details, prompting calls for media literacy skills like source verification and reverse image searches to identify synthetic visuals, as no reliable free tool currently exists for automatic detection.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces massive AI spending will continue through 2026 with expenses exceeding 2025 levels, raising total expense forecast to $114-118 billion and investing $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI, sending shares soaring 12% after strong quarterly earnings beat expectations.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy envisions delivering ads during conversations with AI assistant Alexa+, considering subscription tiers including an ad-free option as Amazon invests heavily in AI chips and data centers to power its AI models.
Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $4.53 billion operating loss in Q2 despite $370 million in sales, while EssilorLuxottica reports Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sales more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025.
Apple vehemently defends its iPhone principles, arguing the DOJ antitrust lawsuit 'fundamentally misunderstands' key features and seeks to 'attack' design choices, degrade privacy/security benefits, and eliminate consumer choice.
A federal judge rebukes Elon Musk and Sam Altman for 'gamesmanship' in their legal battle, striking down 16 of OpenAI's 55 defenses against Musk's racketeering lawsuit, underscoring escalating tensions between the tech titans amid OpenAI's internal challenges.