Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth AI system maps the entire planet's surface using satellite data, compressing petabytes of information into compact summaries, enabling environmental monitoring and data-driven decision-making for conservation and resource management.
Meta's AI chatbots, intended to aid education, have sparked a cheating surge in rural Colombia, with students failing exams despite submitting AI-generated homework, forcing teachers to rethink assessment methods to ensure authentic learning.
Krea unveils open weights for its FLUX.1 image model, promising superior aesthetics and image quality by curating data and calibrating outputs to address the 'AI look', with plans to expand capabilities and offer personalized aesthetics.
Uber Eats rolls out AI-driven menu descriptions, photo editing tools that can earn customers credits, and a Live Order Chat for direct communication between businesses and customers.
In a major shift, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI with 32% enterprise market share as code generation emerges as AI's killer app, while open-source adoption stalls at 13% due to performance gaps, and enterprises rapidly upgrade to frontier models for performance gains over cost savings.
The U.S. Army unveils a groundbreaking $10 billion enterprise deal with Palantir, revolutionizing its software procurement model to increase agility, transparency, and cost savings through flexible, enterprise-wide licensing agreements.
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth, an AI model that processes satellite data to generate detailed digital maps of the entire planet, enabling tracking of environmental changes and aiding conservation efforts by organizations like the UN.
Apple surges on a 13% increase in iPhone sales, reporting 10% revenue growth, its biggest since December 2021; CEO Tim Cook vows to 'significantly grow' AI investments, open to acquisitions accelerating its AI roadmap, while seeing a 4% sales boost in China aided by device subsidies.
AI deepfakes manipulate media with startling realism, blurring lines between real and fake through generative adversarial networks, posing risks like misinformation but also offering creative potential.
OpenAI researchers Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki drive the company's pursuit of artificial general intelligence, developing powerful reasoning models that can autonomously tackle complex coding, math, and scientific tasks over extended time periods.