A $1 billion fund launches NextLadder Ventures to develop AI tools over 15 years, partnering with Anthropic, to aid frontline workers like public defenders, parole officers, and social workers in spurring economic mobility through grants and investments in nonprofits and for-profits.
Meta acquires PlayAI as voice AI ignites fierce competition, fueling a surge in investment with companies racing to secure conversational AI capabilities through acquisitions of startups like ElevenLabs, Cresta, and Cartesia amid rapid technological advancements enabling natural voice interaction.
OpenAI integrates Shopify checkout into ChatGPT, aiming for $10B revenue stream from commissions on sales despite $5B losses last year.
Gemini Code Assist unveils agent mode, an AI pair programmer that analyzes codebases and proposes controlled, multi-file changes, enhancing IDEs with context control, responsive chat, and revertible checkpoints.
Chile leads a groundbreaking initiative, Latam-GPT, a multilingual AI model trained on over 8 terabytes of data from 30 Latin American and Caribbean institutions, embracing regional diversity by including Indigenous languages and dialect variants.
Researchers develop AI 'digital twins' using extensive medical data from over 13,000 participants to predict future health, detect diseases early, and simulate personalized treatments.
In a surprising move, Anthropic rehires Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, key leaders behind its coding product Claude Code, just two weeks after they departed for Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.
Ex-Google AI pioneers unveil a software-savvy agent trained to comprehend the software building process, inching closer to superintelligent AI by enabling more capable software assistants.
Meta and AWS join forces to empower 30 US startups building AI applications on Meta's open-source Llama platform, providing $200,000 in AWS cloud credits and technical support as Meta aims to make Llama the leading platform for AI app development.
OpenAI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung depart for Meta's superintelligence lab, amid an AI talent war where Meta offers up to $300 million over four years to top AI talent.