Amazon launches the world's largest AI data center in Indiana as part of its $11 billion Project Rainier, spanning 1,200 acres with 500,000 custom Trainium chips to train Anthropic's Claude models, while local residents worry about farmland loss and soaring utility costs.
Google dramatically enhances NotebookLM with an 8x larger context window, 6x longer conversation memory, and 50% better response quality, while introducing custom role settings that let users transform the AI into specialized advisors like research consultants or marketing strategists.
Alphabet shatters records with $102.35 billion quarterly revenue, marking the first time the tech giant crosses $100 billion while Google Cloud surges 35% to $15.15 billion amid explosive AI demand, prompting the company to boost 2025 infrastructure spending to up to $93 billion.
Microsoft crushes Q1 earnings with $77.67 billion revenue and 40% Azure growth, but stock tumbles 4% as company forecasts accelerated capital spending and absorbs a massive $3.1 billion OpenAI investment hit despite maintaining its $135 billion stake in the AI giant.
Major AI interpretability research approaches including feature visualizations, saliency maps, and sparse autoencoders fail to decode how neural networks actually work after over a decade of investment, prompting Google DeepMind to abandon leading techniques and researchers to shift toward higher-level analysis methods.
Alphabet shares surge 5% as Q3 revenue soars to $102.4 billion, crushing Wall Street's $99.85 billion expectations, driven by Google Cloud's explosive 34% growth to $15.2 billion from AI demand and major partnerships with OpenAI and Meta.
Cursor 2.0 launches with breakthrough Composer AI that codes 4x faster than competitors, completing most programming tasks in under 30 seconds while introducing agent-based interface that runs multiple coding processes simultaneously without interference.
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce the GUARD Act to ban AI chatbots for minors and impose $100,000 fines on companies, following tragic testimony from parents whose children died by suicide after using AI companions from OpenAI and Character.AI.
Cursor launches Composer, a revolutionary AI coding agent that generates software four times faster than competitors using advanced mixture-of-experts architecture and reinforcement learning trained on real-world engineering challenges.
Nvidia becomes the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, surging 3% as unprecedented AI chip demand and potential US-China trade discussions fuel investor optimism about the company's dominance in the artificial intelligence revolution.