A controversial startup aims to automate 70,000 federal jobs using AI agents, sparking concerns over the feasibility and reliability of deploying AI at such a massive scale across diverse agencies with varying rules and regulations.
Google is introducing Gemini AI for kids with parental controls, allowing children under 13 to access the AI assistant on Android devices, while notifying parents and enabling them to monitor and disable access through Family Link, acknowledging potential risks and advising open communication.
While major tech giants like Apple and Amazon face headwinds from tariffs and waning consumer sentiment, advertising-focused tech businesses remain resilient amid trade wars and economic uncertainty, bucking the downward trend impacting consumer-facing industries.
Apple is collaborating with Anthropic to develop an AI coding assistant integrated into Xcode, leveraging Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to enable developers to write, edit, and test code through a chat interface, initially for internal use with potential future public release.
Alibaba's open-source Qwen3 AI models, rivaling US capabilities, ignite an AI arms race, prompting Silicon Valley's swift xAI Grok 3.5 beta release, underscoring the need for agile responses in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
BreezoMeter leverages Google Cloud's scalable and sustainable infrastructure to analyze vast environmental data, delivering precise, hyperlocal insights on air pollution, pollen, wildfires, and weather for over 100 countries, processing 1.8 TB of data and calculating 10 billion pollutant concentrations hourly.
Meta faces a pivotal copyright lawsuit questioning whether its AI tools, capable of generating book-like content, undermine authors' livelihoods, sparking a debate on protecting creators versus stifling AI innovation in the rapidly evolving field.
North Korea has been covertly deploying AI-powered IT workers posing as legitimate candidates to infiltrate Western firms, stealing jobs and sensitive data through sophisticated deception tactics that are challenging companies' defenses.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is advocating for revisions to AI chip export rules, aiming to accelerate global diffusion of US AI technology while maintaining dominance, as China rapidly closes the gap in AI capabilities despite Nvidia's planned $500B US investment.
Toyota and Waymo, a leader in self-driving technology, are teaming up to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous driving capabilities for personally owned vehicles, combining their strengths to create a new platform that enhances next-generation cars with Waymo's cutting-edge autonomous tech.