Stanford researchers coin 'workslop' to describe low-quality AI-generated content that 40% of workers now receive monthly, creating productivity drains as managers redo subpar projects and employees lose respect for colleagues submitting AI-generated work.
Google Labs launches Mixboard, an experimental AI-powered visual brainstorming tool in public beta across the U.S., enabling users to generate and edit images from text prompts using the new Nano Banana model for creative projects ranging from home decor to product development.
OpenAI launches its first $500 billion Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, announcing five additional sites across multiple states with over $400 billion investment planned to address AI's massive compute shortage while projecting $13 billion revenue this year.
Databricks and OpenAI announce a groundbreaking $100 million partnership that brings GPT-5 and other advanced AI models directly to over 20,000 enterprise customers through the Databricks platform, enabling companies to build production-ready AI agents using their existing data without complex setup or security concerns.
Legal tech funding shatters records with $2.4 billion raised in 2025 as AI automation revolutionizes the legal industry, with major deals including Filevine's $400 million raise and Harvey's $600 million across multiple rounds transforming how legal work gets done.
Researchers unveil groundbreaking vision for self-evolving AI systems that autonomously redesign themselves without human intervention, marking a potential paradigm shift where machines monitor their own behavior, generate policies, and optimize performance independently, though significant challenges remain in developing the necessary abstractions and determining AI's capacity for large-scale autonomous system design.
xAI's new Grok 4 Fast AI model rockets to the top of search leaderboards while slashing operational costs by 47 times compared to competitors like GPT-5 and Claude, offering real-time web and X search capabilities at dramatically reduced pricing of $0.20 per million input tokens.
New research exposes critical flaws in AI judge systems, revealing systematic biases that favor longer responses and specific positions, plus vulnerability to manipulation tactics that artificially inflate scores, raising serious concerns about their reliability in automated assessment tasks.
MIT researchers develop PDDL-INSTRUCT framework that boosts AI planning accuracy to 94% on complex tasks, delivering up to 66% improvement over existing models by combining logical reasoning with step-by-step plan validation.
Apple launches MCP (Model Context Protocol) support in new developer betas, allowing AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to directly control iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps autonomously without requiring custom developer integrations.