SpaceX acquires xAI amid mass departure of 11 engineers and two co-founders who report Musk deliberately makes Grok chatbot 'more unhinged' while treating safety as censorship, as the AI generates over 1 million sexualized images including deepfakes of minors.
Chinese AI models like DeepSeek R1 and Alibaba's Qwen capture 30% market share by offering near-frontier capabilities at one-seventh the cost of Western competitors, with open-source releases challenging established industry leaders and reshaping global AI innovation standards.
Chinese AI models like Alibaba's Qwen now surpass Western competitors in downloads and performance while Google's Gemini 3 achieves superhuman research capabilities by catching errors in peer-reviewed mathematics papers that human reviewers missed, as OpenAI pivots toward multi-agent systems.
Voicebox Studio launches as a free, open-source voice cloning platform that runs locally on users' computers, delivering speech synthesis 5x faster than competitors on Apple Silicon while challenging cloud-based services like ElevenLabs with professional editing tools and developer APIs.
Chrome launches WebMCP technology in early preview, introducing new APIs that allow AI agents to directly interact with websites for tasks like customer support, shopping assistance, and travel booking with enhanced speed and reliability.
Flapping Airplanes secures $180 million in seed funding to develop revolutionary AI systems inspired by human brain algorithms that require 1000 times less training data than current OpenAI and DeepMind models, potentially unlocking breakthrough applications in robotics and scientific discovery.
US productivity surges 2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the past decade's average, as artificial intelligence drives economic growth while employers cut 403,000 jobs from payrolls despite maintaining robust 3.7% GDP growth.
Alibaba launches Zvec, a revolutionary open-source vector database that can search through billions of vectors in milliseconds, requiring minimal setup while supporting both dense and sparse vectors with hybrid search capabilities for Python and Node.js applications.
India surges to become OpenAI's second-largest market with 100 million weekly ChatGPT users, leading globally in student usage as Sam Altman prepares to announce new government partnerships targeting the country's billion-plus internet users.
Nearly three-quarters of CIOs regret major AI vendor decisions from the past 18 months and fear job loss if they cannot prove AI returns within two years, even as 60% of CFOs plan to boost AI spending by 10% or more in 2026 despite mounting pressure for measurable business gains.