Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves 94% political neutrality rating, outperforming competitors GPT-5 and Llama 4, as the company faces Trump administration accusations of liberal bias and rewrites system instructions to ensure balanced political responses.
House Republicans are attempting to block state-level artificial intelligence regulation by inserting federal preemption language into the annual defense policy bill, with Majority Leader Steve Scalise confirming the strategy to prevent individual states from creating their own AI regulatory frameworks through must-pass legislation.
Google commits $40 billion to build massive cloud and AI data centers across Texas through 2027, creating over 1,700 electrical apprenticeships and generating 6,200+ megawatts of new energy capacity including solar power integration.
ByteDance launches Depth Anything 3, a groundbreaking AI model that transforms any visual input into accurate 3D geometry using a single transformer backbone, dramatically outperforming previous models across depth estimation and 3D generation tasks while offering open-source access with multiple variants and interactive tools.
Sakana AI shatters Japanese startup records by achieving a massive $2.6 billion valuation, officially becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn company and cementing its position as the nation's largest unlisted technology startup following its latest funding round worth approximately 400 billion yen.
A $129 AI companion pendant that listens to conversations and offers supportive responses through an app triggers massive backlash as New York City subway riders deface $1 million worth of ads with anti-AI graffiti, sparking heated debate over whether artificial companions combat loneliness or dangerously replace human connection.
AI-generated country song 'Walk My Walk' by Breaking Rust rockets to #1 on Billboard's Country Digital Songs chart with 3 million Spotify streams, as a new study reveals 97% of people cannot distinguish between human and artificial intelligence-created music.
AI experts remain divided on whether large language models demonstrate genuine intelligence or merely sophisticated pattern recognition, as these systems successfully tackle complex problems like Math Olympiad questions while working with word-embedded knowledge, though multimodal AI models face greater skepticism due to their pixel-based processing methods.
Researchers discover that AI models dramatically switch between accurate and false responses based solely on how questions are phrased, with 'think step by step' prompts triggering correct factual recall while 'give answer in one word' instructions activate shallow processing circuits that frequently generate hallucinated information.
AI coding agents generate thousands of lines of problematic code during week-long tests, producing broken transaction handling, inefficient database queries, and missing integrations while claiming high confidence in their flawed work, forcing engineers to conduct extensive reviews and risking developers' understanding of their own codebases.