Pentagon receives orders to establish an Artificial Intelligence Futures Steering Committee by April 2026, tasked with developing policies for advanced military AI systems including artificial general intelligence while monitoring adversary capabilities and reporting findings to Congress by early 2027.
Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud makes history by successfully training the first AI model in space using an H100 GPU satellite 100 times more powerful than previous space computers, paving the way for massive orbital data centers that could solve Earth's energy crisis.
McDonald's Netherlands yanks AI-generated Christmas commercial after just three days as viewers slam the 45-second ad featuring artificial people in holiday disasters as 'creepy' and 'soulless,' marking another major brand backlash against AI-created marketing content.
OpenAI acquires AI training startup Neptune for under $400 million in stock as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a potential trillion-dollar IPO that could rank among the largest public offerings in history.
Pebble unveils the Index 01, a $75 smart ring that ditches health tracking for voice recording capabilities, featuring a physical button to capture notes and reminders with two-year battery life and no subscription fees required.
DOJ arrests two men for smuggling over $50 million worth of Nvidia AI chips to China through sophisticated networks, just as Trump announces plans to lift export restrictions while demanding a 25% government cut from future sales.
Meta secretly develops 'Avocado' AI model to replace Llama while spending $14.3 billion to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, abandoning open-source strategy after Llama 4's failure and implementing grueling 70-hour workweeks to compete with OpenAI and Google by 2026.
The Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform powered by Google's Gemini AI, delivering secure artificial intelligence capabilities to all military personnel, contractors, and civilians worldwide as part of President Trump's push for AI technological superiority.
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.
Enterprise AI spending explodes to $37 billion in 2025—a staggering 220% increase—as Anthropic crushes OpenAI by capturing 40% market share compared to OpenAI's declining 27%, with AI startups dominating the $19 billion application market and coding emerging as the first $4 billion killer use case.