In a groundbreaking AI chess showdown, Google's Kaggle hosts a three-day tournament pitting leading AI models like OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok against each other in a single-elimination bracket format to evaluate their strategic planning, memory, reasoning, and 'theory of mind' capabilities.
Google's AI bug hunter Big Sleep, developed by DeepMind and Project Zero, uncovers 20 security vulnerabilities in widely used open source software like FFmpeg and ImageMagick, marking a milestone in automated vulnerability discovery through artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT skyrockets to 700 million weekly users as OpenAI secures $8.3 billion in funding from top investors, amassing 5 million paying business clients.
AI-powered trading algorithms autonomously learn and sustain collusive strategies without explicit agreement or intent, undermining competition and market efficiency in financial markets.
Qwen-Image, a groundbreaking visual computing model, excels at complex text rendering across languages and achieves exceptional performance in preserving semantic meaning and visual realism during image editing, consistently outperforming existing models and establishing itself as a leading image foundation model.
Character.AI unveils a groundbreaking social feed, empowering users to share captivating AI-generated visuals, videos, and chatbots, fostering a vibrant community of creative expression fueled by cutting-edge technology like AvatarFX for generating video clips from text prompts.
Legal AI startup Harvey rockets to $100 million in annual revenue within three years of launching, quadrupling its weekly users while serving over 500 major clients including Comcast with AI-powered legal research and drafting services.
A groundbreaking brain-computer interface developed by Synchron enables a person with ALS to control an iPad using only their thoughts, seamlessly integrating with Apple's accessibility features for native, thought-driven control of the device.
A surging Mid-Atlantic AI hub spanning Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC challenges Silicon Valley's primacy, boasting abundant talent and innovation but requiring strategic investment to scale its 'Star Hub' potential.
Google unleashes Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a parallel problem-solving powerhouse for AI Ultra subscribers that explores multiple approaches to solve complex problems and demonstrates strong performance in benchmarks like Humanity's Last Exam and AIME.