Google DeepMind CEO reveals Chinese AI models trail Western capabilities by mere months rather than years, though China still lacks breakthrough innovation capacity and faces major obstacles from U.S. chip export bans and significantly smaller computing infrastructure.
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary by welcoming Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as major partners who access its human-curated knowledge through enterprise APIs to power AI models, chatbots, and search engines across 300+ languages and 65 million pages receiving 15 billion monthly views.
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot implements new restrictions after global outrage and government investigations reveal the system was creating nonconsensual sexually explicit images, including of minors, prompting bans in Indonesia and Malaysia while California launches a formal probe.
California moves forward with groundbreaking youth AI safety legislation that requires age verification, bans child-targeted advertising, prohibits AI systems from forming emotional or romantic relationships with minors, and mandates independent safety audits with enforcement penalties.
Indonesia and Malaysia temporarily block X's Grok chatbot while the UK launches a formal investigation that could ban the platform entirely, after the AI tool generates nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children, prompting X to restrict the controversial feature to paying subscribers only.
President Trump directs federal agencies to sue states over AI regulations and threatens to cut funding from states with restrictive AI laws, while establishing a DOJ task force to challenge conflicting state legislation within 90 days.
NVIDIA launches a $1 billion AI drug discovery lab with pharmaceutical giant Lilly and expands its BioNeMo platform, partnering with major life sciences companies to automate scientific discovery through AI models that predict molecular structures and connect digital agents to robotic laboratory systems.
ARK Invest's Genomic Revolution Fund targets 30-50 DNA sequencing and gene editing companies including CRISPR technology firms, seeking long-term capital growth from healthcare, agriculture, and pharmaceutical innovations since 2014.
Slack launches a completely rebuilt AI-powered Slackbot that reads users' work conversations and files to provide instant catch-ups, personalized drafts, and complex document analysis, rolling out to premium customers today with enterprise-grade security protections.
Google unveils Canvas, a revolutionary AI-powered travel planning tool that generates complete custom itineraries with flights, hotels, restaurants, and attractions from simple user descriptions, featuring collaborative sharing, automatic progress saving, and image-based destination matching capabilities.