In a groundbreaking move, tech titans Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon unleash a staggering $320 billion investment blitz to propel AI innovation, fueling a frenzy of advancements across data centers, infrastructure, and cutting-edge technologies.
Uber halted its self-driving car tests in Arizona after a fatal pedestrian crash, while resuming operations in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, and hired former NTSB Chair Christopher Hart as a safety adviser, demonstrating a commitment to addressing safety concerns.
Tariffs, taxes on imported goods and services, are double-edged swords wielded by governments to raise revenue, protect domestic industries, and exert political leverage, but can backfire with higher consumer prices and escalating trade wars, straining economies and international relations.
The EU unveiled an ambitious €800 billion defense spending plan, including €150 billion in loans, to bolster military capabilities amid doubts about Europe's readiness to counter Russia without US support due to logistical infrastructure gaps like satellite intelligence and battlefield coordination.
Academics from Chicago universities protested planned cuts to federal research grants, while a judge temporarily blocked the NIH from implementing the controversial cuts ordered by the Trump administration, which critics argue would hamper vital medical research and public health initiatives nationwide.
Trump's proposed 'Take It Down Act' raises alarming concerns about online censorship, as it could pressure websites to remove lawful content critical of powerful figures without adequate safeguards against abuse, threatening free speech.
Spain takes a bold step in AI innovation, investing €67M in Multiverse Computing to acquire a stake in the company's groundbreaking AI compression technology that shrinks models by 90% while preserving performance, paving the way for cost-effective and sustainable AI adoption across industries.
An open-source AI ensemble combining object detection and species classification models, trained on over 65M images, revolutionizes wildlife monitoring by efficiently detecting and classifying species in camera trap images, minimizing human review effort.
America's first two Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the YFQ-42A by General Atomics and YFQ-44A by Anduril Industries, take flight, ushering in a new era of aerial warfare with manned-unmanned teaming capabilities.
Researchers uncovered a thriving illegal gun trade on WhatsApp in India, with over 8,000 messages across 234 public groups advertising firearms, exploiting WhatsApp's lax monitoring despite policies prohibiting such sales.