Poke, an AI agent startup valued at $300 million, makes history as the first AI agent approved to run on Apple's iMessage platform, bringing everyday AI assistance for tasks like calendar management and smart home control directly to iPhone users via text message.
Enterprises are abandoning costly 'tokenmaxxing' AI strategies as efficiency dominates Microsoft Build and Snowflake Summit, with major tech firms unveiling cost-cutting tools and experts urging businesses to question whether AI is even needed for every task.
Microsoft launches the Surface Laptop Ultra, a sleek sub-4.5-pound powerhouse featuring a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, an NVIDIA chip delivering up to one petaflop of AI compute, and up to 128GB of unified memory, designed for creators and professionals demanding cutting-edge on-device AI performance.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
A new bipartisan 269-page AI bill proposes federal preemption of state AI laws, requiring top developers to disclose safety risks while allocating $300 million for enforcement, but critics warn it would strip states of accountability powers and turn existing protections into a ceiling rather than a floor.
Anthropic warns that AI recursive self-improvement could outpace human readiness while simultaneously raising $65 billion and filing for an IPO, exposing a stark contradiction between its safety concerns and aggressive financial expansion — all while Claude already writes over 80% of the company's own code.
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Ultra, a massive 550B-parameter AI model delivering frontier reasoning capabilities at 30% lower cost and 5x higher throughput than comparable open models, powered by cutting-edge hybrid architecture and a novel multi-teacher training method, with fully open weights released for enterprise adoption.
Canada launches 'AI for All,' an ambitious national strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2034, backed by new AI safety legislation, a national literacy initiative, sovereign supercomputing infrastructure, and 12 international partnerships.
OpenAI is rolling out a powerful new 'Dreaming' memory system for ChatGPT that automatically synthesizes and updates user context in the background, giving Plus and Pro subscribers smarter, always-current conversations — with Free users set to gain access in the coming weeks.
The U.S. and Japan launch a historic $1 billion, five-year science partnership uniting 24 top research institutions to drive breakthroughs in quantum science, fusion energy, AI, biotechnology, and particle physics, marking Japan as the first international partner in President Trump's Genesis Mission.