Excelsior Sciences secures $95 million to revolutionize drug discovery by replacing human chemists with AI-powered robots that break down FDA-approved molecules into 'smart bloccs' and reassemble them into new pharmaceutical compounds, promising faster and cheaper development while reshoring manufacturing to the US.
Chicago Tribune files copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI in federal court, alleging the startup illegally profits by reproducing Tribune reporting on its AI search platform without authorization.
The Department of Energy launches AMP2, an AI-powered robot lab that operates 24/7 to accelerate research on bacteria and fungi for producing chemicals, energy, and biomaterials, positioning the U.S. to compete in a bioeconomy projected to grow from $4 trillion to $30 trillion by 2050.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore launches groundbreaking policy controls using Cedar language and real-time evaluations to ensure trusted AI agent deployment, while introducing episodic memory that lets agents learn from past experiences and bidirectional streaming for natural voice conversations with interruption capabilities.
Sequoia Capital backs Ricursive Intelligence, an AI startup co-founded by AlphaChip creators that promises to slash semiconductor design time from years to mere days using automated AI systems, potentially revolutionizing the chip industry by making custom processors accessible to any company.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns that artificial intelligence will disrupt every job including his own as U.S. job postings crash 32% since ChatGPT's launch, with Gen Z tech employment cut in half while urging workers to adapt rather than avoid AI transformation.
Anthropic rockets to $183 billion valuation with 300,000 enterprise customers choosing its Claude AI over OpenAI and Google, driven by superior safety features and coding capabilities, while navigating Trump administration tensions and a massive $1.5 billion copyright settlement amid explosive growth to 2,300 employees.
Meta hires Apple's top UI designer Alan Dye to lead a new Reality Labs creative studio developing AI-powered smart glasses and VR headsets, as Zuckerberg's company aggressively recruits talent from competitors to challenge Apple and OpenAI in the emerging AI consumer device market.
Docker unleashes a revolutionary MCP Toolkit update that slashes AI workflow inefficiencies by 90% through dynamic tool selection, state persistence, and sandboxed execution environments, while introducing an MCP Catalog with verified servers and autonomous tool usage capabilities that dramatically reduce token consumption and eliminate context window bloat.
AWS launches Amazon Nova 2 AI series featuring Sonic speech-to-speech technology, Lite cost-effective reasoning, and Omni multimodal capabilities, while introducing powerful EC2 X8aedz instances and Trn3 UltraServers delivering 4.4x higher AI training performance at re:Invent 2025.