Meta purges 135,000 Instagram accounts exploiting minors and bolsters safeguards for teenage users, taking action amid growing scrutiny over child safety on social media platforms.
Google ramps up its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to a staggering $85 billion, a $10 billion increase from earlier projections, fueled by skyrocketing demand for its cloud services, leading to a massive $106 billion backlog and prompting accelerated data center construction and server investments.
Small businesses are leveraging AI, automation, and secure data practices to streamline operations, personalize customer experiences, manage growth with lean teams, and thrive amid economic shifts and rising expectations, embracing trusted technologies to simplify workflows and create seamless omnichannel engagement.
A groundbreaking study unveils the majority of US teenagers embracing AI companions, with 72% utilizing them; while nearly half perceive them as tools or programs, one-third engage for social interaction, yet 80% who use AI companions prioritize spending time with real friends.
A UK engineering researcher spearheads an NSF-funded initiative, collaborating with Michigan State University, to develop cutting-edge machine learning models capable of simulating the progression of heart fibrosis, advancing computational modeling of heart disease.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an 'impending, significant fraud crisis' as AI can now impersonate voices and videos, defeating voice authentication used by financial institutions, raising alarm about malicious AI development outpacing defenses.
MIT dropouts' AI startup Delve raises $32M at $300M valuation for automating regulatory compliance using AI agents integrated with customers' tools, attracting Fortune 500 CISOs' investment.
Delve, an AI startup, secures $32 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners to develop AI agents that automate compliance tasks, streamlining operations and enabling faster certification for companies across various compliance frameworks.
Latent Labs unveils LatentX, a groundbreaking web-based AI model for designing novel proteins, achieving state-of-the-art results in lab for protein binding and licensing it to academic institutions, biotech startups, and pharmaceutical companies.
AI revolutionizes the nation, catalyzing a renaissance with soaring economic growth, streamlined public services, and a commitment of £14 billion and 13,250 jobs from private tech firms, fueled by the government's AI Action Plan.