The UAE's Golden Visa program attracts Western tech workers with lucrative AI job offers, high salaries, and tax-free income, while workers from developing nations face rejections, lower pay, and exploitative conditions in Dubai's booming AI hub.
Sumner County Schools in Tennessee is using AI to provide personalized literacy support, helping teachers focus on individual student needs while receiving real-time data to guide instruction and address achievement gaps, according to Director of Schools Scott Langford.
Hugging Face, an AI development platform, unveiled two affordable open-source humanoid robots: HopeJR, a full-size robot capable of walking and manipulating objects for around $3,000, and Reachy Mini, a desktop unit for testing AI apps costing $250-$300, furthering its push into accessible robotics.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek quietly released an upgraded version of its reasoning model DeepSeek R1, outperforming rivals like Meta and OpenAI, shocking markets and sparking concerns about U.S. tech giants' spending, while showcasing China's AI capabilities despite U.S. export curbs.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautions that the rapid advancement of AI technology poses a significant threat to mass employment, urging society to address the potential for AI to automate numerous tasks and displace human workers across various industries.
DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B, can run on a single GPU, outperforming comparable models on math benchmarks while being less computationally demanding, making it accessible for research and industrial development focused on small-scale models.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) requests tariff exemptions from the Trump administration, cautioning that import duties could inflate costs and derail its U.S. chip production initiatives, including its newly-commenced Arizona factory.
Google unveils augmented reality glasses powered by its AI assistant Gemini, partnering with Samsung and Warby Parker, while showcasing prototypes like Project Moohan and Project Aura to compete with Apple's Vision Pro.
Meta faces an exodus of top AI talent, including key researchers behind its open-source Llama models, as growing competition from rivals like Mistral lures away employees with lucrative offers, raising concerns about Meta's ability to maintain its lead in the AI race.
In a groundbreaking deal, Elon Musk's AI company xAI will pay Telegram $300 million to integrate its chatbot Grok into the messaging app, allowing users to access Grok's advanced capabilities for writing, summarizing, and creating content directly within Telegram.