Meta, Facebook's parent company, acquires a minority stake worth around $3.51 billion in EssilorLuxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, signaling its ambitions to expand into wearable technology and AI-powered devices, with shares of EssilorLuxottica surging 6%.
California propels groundbreaking legislation, SB 243, mandating suicide prevention protocols, usage transparency, and third-party audits for AI companion chatbots, sparking debates over mental health risks and industry concerns about overreach.
In a groundbreaking medical achievement, an autonomous robot surgeon successfully removes a patient's gallbladder unaided, demonstrating remarkable surgical skills on par with expert human surgeons and adaptability to unexpected situations through voice command learning.
The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes communication between AI agents and external tools, streamlining integration efforts and boosting efficiency through a client-server architecture where servers expose capabilities that clients can access.
Mistral, the European AI firm behind Le Chat chatbot, aims to raise $1 billion in equity and hundreds of millions in debt to expand its open-weight large language model capabilities.
Arago unveils a photonic processor slashing AI energy consumption by 10x and raises $26M in seed funding to commercialize its breakthrough chip that processes data using lasers instead of transistors, delivering top GPU performance at lower cost.
Apple revolutionizes wearable tech, unveiling augmented reality smart glasses with AI capabilities for translation, navigation, and more, slated for a 2026 launch after rigorous prototype testing and production ramp-up.
AI-powered impersonation scheme targets diplomats and officials worldwide as someone impersonates Secretary of State Marco Rubio using AI to contact foreign ministers, and a Russia-linked cyber actor poses as a fictitious State Department official to target think tanks, activists, and former officials.
In a major AI talent move, Apple's AI chief Ruoming Pang, responsible for developing language models and features, departs for Meta's newly formed Superintelligence Labs, as the tech giants compete for top AI talent.
Replit partners with Microsoft, enabling developers to create applications using AI-powered natural language and deploy them directly to Azure cloud infrastructure, revolutionizing the app development process.