Google unveils Veo 2, an AI-powered video generation model that creates high-resolution videos with 'cinematic realism' from text inputs, featuring improved physics understanding and human motion rendering, while also offering Whisk Animate for animating images into short videos using Veo 2.
Trump's trade war with China upends decades of globalization, exposing the U.S. economy's deep reliance on Chinese imports and the difficulty of finding alternative suppliers, highlighting significant supply chain risks.
OpenAI's decision to skip a safety report for its GPT-4.1 update has sparked controversy, as AI safety experts argue that transparency and accountability should be prioritized even for incremental model enhancements, challenging the company's claim that a separate report wasn't necessary.
In a clash of design titans, Figma fired a legal shot at Lovable, demanding the startup change its 'Dev Mode' feature name due to trademark infringement, setting the stage for a potential showdown between the rivals in the rapidly evolving vibe coding arena.
Riding the wave of its groundbreaking image-generation technology, OpenAI is reportedly weighing the creation of a social network to rival Elon Musk's X and Meta's Instagram, marking a potential new frontier in the intensifying AI competition and legal battles between tech titans.
A groundbreaking Israeli AI model trained on global satellite data accurately predicts lightning-sparked wildfire ignition locations with over 90% precision, providing a crucial tool for targeted wildfire prevention amid escalating climate change risks.
Kuaishou, a Chinese tech firm, unveiled Kling AI 2.0, an AI video generation model it claims is the 'world's most powerful,' fueling China's race to develop advanced AI tools to rival OpenAI and Google DeepMind's offerings, with over 22 million global users already generating millions of video clips and images.
Palantir, the data analytics firm, has secured a $99.8 million contract from the US Army to expand its AI/ML capabilities across all military branches, supporting the Department of Defense's CJADC2 initiatives by operationalizing AI and machine learning for battlespace awareness, logistics, and targeting.
Apple is pioneering private AI by leveraging synthetic data and differential privacy to analyze user data securely, generating artificial datasets mimicking real data to enhance AI models for features like Genmoji, Image Playground, and email summaries while preserving privacy.
Anthropic's AI assistant Claude gains autonomous research capabilities to provide comprehensive answers rapidly, and integrates with Google Workspace for secure data access, promising enhanced productivity through intelligent analysis of users' emails, calendars, and documents.