SAP announces massive Business AI expansion to over 400 scenarios by 2025, transforming Joule into an AI-powered interface with autonomous workflow agents that can execute complex tasks across multiple applications while eliminating manual prompt engineering.
DeepMind's CEO Hassabis predicts human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI) within a decade, heralding a 'golden era' where AGI solves major global challenges like disease and energy scarcity, though potential risks remain.
Anthropic has launched Claude Explains, a blog featuring AI-generated content with human oversight, showcasing its Claude model's writing abilities while emphasizing collaboration between AI and human expertise to create educational resources across diverse topics.
The FDA's new AI tool for reviewing medical devices, CDRH-GPT, is struggling with basic tasks like uploading documents and accessing recent studies, raising concerns about rushing AI adoption before it's ready to handle complex regulatory work accurately and safely.
Paradromics, a neurotech startup rivaling Elon Musk's Neuralink, successfully implanted and removed its brain-computer interface device during human surgery, marking a major milestone as it prepares for broader clinical trials to help people with severe motor impairments like paralysis.
Researchers speculate that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, may have trained its latest model using outputs from Google's Gemini AI, raising concerns about potential misuse of proprietary data and highlighting the challenges of preventing distillation in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is reportedly launching a $300 million tender offer that values the company at $113 billion, allowing staff to sell shares while raising funds for future growth amidst challenges with Musk's other ventures.
Neurotech startup Paradromics has achieved a major milestone by successfully implanting its brain-computer interface in a human for the first time, paving the way for a clinical trial later this year to study the long-term safety and use of its technology.
Meta plans to automate up to 90% of risk assessments for new features and updates on its platforms like Facebook and Instagram, replacing human evaluators with AI systems that will determine potential privacy violations, harm to minors, and spread of misinformation, raising concerns about oversight and unintended consequences.
Google unveils a staggering $7 billion investment in Iowa, boosting AI capabilities and job opportunities, while prioritizing sustainability through renewable energy and workforce development partnerships.