EU lawmakers are pushing to ban AI-generated explicit images without consent as part of a landmark AI Act vote set for March 26, while also proposing to delay high-risk AI system rules until December 2026.
Samsung and AMD sign a landmark deal making Samsung the primary supplier of next-gen HBM4 high-bandwidth memory chips for AMD's MI455X AI accelerators, deepening their alliance in the rapidly growing AI data center market.
NousResearch launches Hermes Agent, an open-source, self-improving AI that learns from experience, supports 200+ LLMs, runs on infrastructure as cheap as a $5 VPS, and connects across Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, and Slack — already earning 8.7k GitHub stars from 142 contributors.
Google DeepMind unveils a groundbreaking AGI progress framework identifying 10 key cognitive benchmarks — including reasoning, memory, and social cognition — while launching a $200K Kaggle hackathon challenging researchers to build evaluations for under-measured AI abilities.
OpenAI strikes a major deal with AWS to deliver AI tools to U.S. government agencies, directly challenging Anthropic's stronghold in the federal cloud space while retaining control over its own model deployments.
OpenAI is targeting a 2026 IPO while aggressively pivoting ChatGPT toward enterprise users, projecting over $280 billion in revenue by 2030 as it battles Google and Anthropic for AI market dominance.
Google is rolling out its AI-powered Personal Intelligence feature to all US users for free, connecting Gemini to Gmail and Google Photos to deliver hyper-personalized shopping and travel recommendations — no manual input required, though it remains off by default and limited to personal accounts.
A massive security breach exposes 3.7 million chat logs, 1.4 million audio files, and sensitive customer data from Sears Home Services' AI chatbot, Samantha, raising serious fraud and privacy concerns after some recordings captured up to four hours of private ambient conversations customers never knew were being recorded.
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin introduces landmark legislation to restrict the Pentagon's use of AI in military operations, prohibiting autonomous kill decisions, mass surveillance of Americans, and AI-controlled nuclear weapons, as tensions between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic highlight the urgent need for clear legal boundaries.
IREN launches a massive 1,600MW AI data center campus across 2,000 acres in Oklahoma, backed by a landmark $9.7 billion Microsoft deal, positioning the facility as a major emerging hub for AI infrastructure in the United States with power ramping up in 2028.