The European Commission launches a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X under the Digital Services Act, targeting whether the platform adequately addressed risks from its AI chatbot Grok generating child sexual abuse material, as regulators in the U.K., India, and Malaysia launch parallel probes.
Anthropic launches MCP extension that transforms Claude into an app-integrated operating system, allowing users to directly control Slack, Canva, Figma, and Asana within the chatbot interface instead of just receiving text responses.
Meta suspends teen access to AI characters globally across all its platforms while developing safer versions with parental controls, as the tech giant faces an upcoming trial in New Mexico over allegations of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation.
Defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton makes its first-ever venture capital investment, committing $400 million to Andreessen Horowitz's latest funds in a significant strategic move that bridges traditional defense contracting with Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem.
Tech titans including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella dominate Davos discussions as AI takes center stage, with CEOs clashing over China chip sales policies and warning of potential market bubbles while traditional summit topics like climate change get sidelined.
AI workplace adoption surges to 26% with executives leading the charge at 69% usage rates, while nearly half of American workers remain completely disconnected from the technology revolution transforming offices across tech, finance, and education sectors.
A new five-level scale ranks AI labs by commercial ambitions, placing OpenAI and Anthropic at the most profitable Level 5, while Thinking Machines Lab experiences executive exodus amid internal disputes over company direction and newer startups like Humans& and World Labs occupy middle tiers with varying market clarity.
Apple secretly develops AI chatbot codenamed Campos using Google's Gemini models to replace Siri while planning an AirTag-sized wearable for 2027, as Nex Computer announces a $549 smartphone running Android, Linux, and Windows, and Sony sells majority control of its TV business to TCL.
Pope Leo XIV issues urgent warning against emotionally manipulative AI chatbots, demanding immediate government regulation to prevent people from forming dangerous attachments to artificial companions and protect society from tech elites secretly controlling human behavior through deceptive digital relationships.
Wix restructures its engineering teams into a single AI-native guild where new 'xEngineers' focus on system design while artificial intelligence generates most production code, marking a fundamental shift away from traditional programming roles toward end-to-end ownership and architecture-first approaches.