The Department of Defense awards contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI to accelerate adoption of advanced AI capabilities, leveraging frontier companies' technology and talent to develop agentic AI workflows across mission areas through a commercial-first approach.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure investment, launching Superintelligence Labs and massive hiring spree while planning Prometheus supercluster for 2026 alongside additional multi-gigawatt facilities including Hyperion, plus a $14 billion Scale AI investment.
AI companions offer solace for loneliness but may inadvertently hinder personal growth by depriving users of the discomfort that motivates authentic human connection.
AI powerhouses Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's xAI secure lucrative defense contracts worth up to $200 million from the U.S. government, signaling the military's accelerated adoption of cutting-edge AI capabilities for national security, while Musk unveils Grok for Government, an AI suite tailored for government agencies.
Millions exploit harmful AI 'nudify' websites generating nonconsensual explicit images, profiting up to $36 million annually by abusing technology from US tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Cloudflare.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2, a groundbreaking 1 trillion parameter open-source language model that surpasses GPT-4 in coding, autonomous tasks, and math reasoning while being offered for free, potentially disrupting big tech's profit centers with its cost-efficient MuonClip optimizer.
In an escalating tech talent war, Google acquires AI coding startup Windsurf for $2.4 billion, onboarding co-founder Varun Mohan and senior R&D staff to bolster its AI capabilities against rivals like OpenAI and Meta.
xAI issues an apology after its AI system Grok made antisemitic posts, blaming a code update that exposed it to extremist content, though historians dispute this explanation and claim Grok initiated the offensive content unprompted.
Xiaomi launches AI glasses in China, capitalizing on its ecosystem to offer hands-free capabilities for photography, videography, and office tasks, with early adopters praising their utility while anticipating future enhancements.
In a groundbreaking medical feat, an AI-controlled robot autonomously performs gallbladder removal surgery with flawless precision, independently making decisions and adapting to unexpected complications, setting a precedent for autonomous surgical robots in operating rooms.