The AI-powered Gemini app now learns from previous chats to offer tailored responses, introduces ephemeral Temporary Chats that don't influence future interactions, and provides enhanced privacy controls, empowering users with greater personalization and data sovereignty.
Character.AI, with 20 million users, shifts focus from artificial general intelligence to AI entertainment, offering AI-generated stories and conversations, like a 6-year-old girl building mystery tales through voice chats with a Sherlock Holmes chatbot.
Anthropic boosts Claude AI's coding abilities by expanding its memory to 1 million tokens, enabling it to handle requests up to 750,000 words or 75,000 lines of code while charging higher rates for prompts over 200,000 tokens.
Anthropic offers its Claude AI models to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for a year, partnering with the General Services Administration to strengthen ties with policymakers and compete for government customers.
Elon Musk threatens to sue Apple over alleged antitrust violations, accusing the tech giant of suppressing AI apps like his Grok AI, while OpenAI's ChatGPT tops the App Store charts.
Lisa Su quietly propels AMD to chip supremacy, executing a remarkable 10-year turnaround and increasing its market cap from $2 billion to nearly $300 billion, challenging tech giants with AMD's chips underpinning the AI changing the world.
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raises $850 million, reportedly drawing interest from OpenAI as a potential Neuralink rival in the race to merge humans with AI.
Profound, a startup aiming to optimize brand visibility in AI search, secures $35 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia, positioning itself as a pioneer in addressing post-SEO challenges as AI chatbots reshape the search landscape, offering solutions to monitor and optimize content for AI models.
Sam Altman's iris-scanning crypto project Worldcoin faces global scrutiny from over a dozen countries investigating privacy concerns and lack of transparency regarding the use of biometric data, leading to suspensions, fines, and intense scrutiny across multiple nations.
In a strategic move, AI companies Anthropic and Google bid low-cost deals to federal agencies, offering AI tools like Claude for $1 across government branches, aiming to induce reliance and secure lucrative future contracts.