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.
Meta temporarily blocks teenagers from accessing AI characters on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp amid mounting lawsuits from families and political pressure, following similar restrictions by competitors after accusations that AI chatbots contribute to teen self-harm and suicide.
Chinese AI models DeepSeek R-1 and Alibaba's Qwen capture major US companies including Pinterest and Airbnb with 90% cost savings over American alternatives, as Stanford research shows Chinese models now match or exceed global competitors while China's open-source strategy challenges US proprietary approaches.
Psychiatrists document the first cases of 'AI-associated psychosis' where heavy chatbot users develop delusional beliefs, including one woman who believed her deceased brother existed as a digital avatar, prompting UCSF and Stanford researchers to study chat logs for protective measures.