Mark Zuckerberg finalizes a $14 billion deal to invest in Scale AI and hires co-founder Alexandr Wang to lead Meta's AI push, aiming to catch up with rivals like OpenAI in the AI race.
Hundreds attend Runway's groundbreaking AI film festival in New York, showcasing experimental shorts that incorporate cutting-edge generative AI techniques for creating realistic imagery, highlighting the rapid advancement of AI video generation technology.
IBM fortifies AI prowess by acquiring natural language data querying startup Seek AI and unveiling $500M Watsonx AI Labs in NYC to co-develop enterprise-ready AI solutions for cybersecurity, customer service, and open-source frameworks.
UC Irvine leads a $6 million initiative funded by the UC Office of the President, involving researchers from 5 UC campuses and 2 national labs, to develop an AI ecosystem called Geophysicist.AI that integrates data and models to address subsurface challenges like geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, and nuclear waste storage.
Apple faces mounting pressure to unveil advancements in its AI assistant Siri and provide developers with robust AI tools at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference in 2025, as it races to catch up in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape.
Themis AI, an MIT spinout co-founded by Professor Daniela Rus, has developed Capsa, a platform that can work with any machine learning model to detect and correct unreliable outputs in seconds by quantifying model uncertainty and addressing knowledge gaps.
Chinese tech giants like Baidu, WeRide, and Pony.ai are rapidly catching up to Silicon Valley's Waymo in the global robotaxi race, leveraging China's massive market, supportive regulations, and competitive supply chains to expand services worldwide.
University Hospitals adopts cutting-edge AI-powered Varian Ethos 2.0 system for precision adaptive radiotherapy, enabling personalized cancer treatment plans and higher radiation doses while minimizing harm to healthy tissue through real-time imaging and motion tracking.
Acknowledging its delayed AI advancements, Apple grants developers access to its on-device large language model, enabling AI integration in apps, yet still trails OpenAI and Google's AI capabilities despite OS updates leveraging its AI technology.
Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice denied making controversial comments about the Stanley Cup and rival players, claiming the quotes were generated by artificial intelligence and circulated online, sparking outrage in the hockey community.