Computer scientists prove that the simplex method, a fundamental optimization algorithm used across industries for 80 years, has reached its theoretical speed limit and cannot be improved further using current approaches.
Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus hires former Meta AI VP Jerome Pesenti as CTO and acquires his 1.7 million-user learning platform Sizzle AI, accelerating their engineering roadmap by 2-3 years as they disrupt community college education with $7,320 annual tuition.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lures AI startup co-founder Andrew Tulloch away from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with a staggering $1.5 billion compensation package over six years after failing to acquire the entire company.
A shocking 72% of teens now use AI companions for emotional support and romantic relationships, with many finding these digital interactions as satisfying as real friendships, prompting experts to call for bans due to mental health risks and concerns about replacing human connections.
Apple acquires computer vision startup Prompt AI and its 11-person team after the company shuts down its Seemour security camera app, beating out competitors xAI and Neuralink to secure UC Berkeley AI researchers for likely integration into HomeKit smart home technology.
A shocking new study reveals 96% of companies see no return on investment from AI implementations despite productivity gains, with only 4% achieving ROI by focusing on company-wide transformation instead of isolated departmental use.
Billionaire Mark Cuban harnesses OpenAI's Sora platform to generate AI videos of himself promoting his pharmaceutical company Cost Plus Drugs, with the viral clips featuring him delivering promotional messages and dancing garnering tens of thousands of views as a cost-free marketing experiment.
Docker launches Model Runner tool that enables developers to package and deploy fine-tuned AI models using LoRA technology, which dramatically reduces compute requirements by adding small adapter layers while keeping base models frozen.
Revolutionary Tabular Foundation Models now outperform traditional data science methods like XGBoost by instantly making predictions on any structured dataset without retraining, using breakthrough in-context learning trained on millions of synthetic tables to deliver superior accuracy and robustness.
New research reveals AI models from DeepSeek and Google become significantly more risk-averse when prompted to act as women, potentially perpetuating economic disparities in loan approvals and investment decisions by reinforcing gender biases in financial decision-making.