Figure, a robotics company, secures $1 billion in funding at a $39 billion valuation, accelerating its efforts to deploy general-purpose humanoid robots in homes and businesses, while scaling GPU infrastructure and data collection initiatives.
YouTube revolutionizes video creation with groundbreaking AI tools that generate videos from text prompts, add motion, stylize content, insert objects, and generate music from speech, empowering creators with unprecedented creative capabilities.
Gemini AI achieves a groundbreaking milestone, securing a gold medal at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, solving 10 of 12 problems and outperforming all but the top university team, showcasing a profound leap in AI's abstract problem-solving capabilities.
A new survey reveals Americans are increasingly worried about artificial intelligence integration into daily life, with 53% fearing AI will damage creative thinking and 50% believing it will harm meaningful relationships, though majorities still support AI for analytical tasks like weather forecasting and financial crime detection.
Over 200 AI contractors working on improving Google's products like Gemini and AI Overviews are fired without warning amid union push and protests over poor pay, job insecurity, and alleged retaliation by outsourcing firm GlobalLogic.
MCP emerges as a vital AI infrastructure, powering top products from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, with a few key servers handling nearly half of all usage and supporting reading and writing operations for AI agents to interact with their environments.
Heartbroken parents plead with Congress as children tragically die by suicide after disturbing interactions with AI chatbots, prompting OpenAI to develop a teen-friendly ChatGPT with age verification while experts demand stricter regulations and accountability for child safety online.
CodeRabbit, the AI-powered code review startup, secures $60M in Series B funding at a staggering $550M valuation, fueling its rapid 20% monthly growth and $15M annual recurring revenue as it revolutionizes code quality assurance for companies worldwide.
GitHub introduces the MCP Registry, a central hub for discovering and accessing MCP servers, curated from partners and the open source community, fostering an open ecosystem in collaboration with Anthropic and the MCP Steering Committee.
1X Technologies, a pioneering AI company, is recruiting a seasoned AI expert to develop an advanced multi-modal neural network capable of enabling its household robot NEO to engage in expressive behavior and speech by interpreting language, audio, and non-verbal cues.