Super Micro Computer co-founder Wally Liaw resigns after a federal indictment charges him with smuggling Nvidia AI chip-laden servers into China through fake paperwork and decoy hardware, generating $2.5 billion in illicit sales since 2024, sending company shares crashing 33%.
Anthropic launches a Project feature for Claude Desktop, allowing users to create persistent local workspaces with stored tasks, instructions, and files — eliminating repetitive uploads and making AI personalization fully portable across tools.
Otter.ai, Granola, and Wispr Flow are dominating the AI transcription space in 2025, each offering unique strengths — from Otter.ai's comprehensive meeting tools to Granola's seamless calendar integration and Wispr Flow's real-time voice-to-text productivity features.
DoorDash is paying delivery workers to film their surroundings and record their voices for AI training through a new feature called Tasks, but security experts warn the biometric and spatial data collected can never be deleted once embedded in AI systems, raising serious privacy alarms for participants and bystanders alike.
Otter.ai, a free iOS and Android app by startup AISense, launches with real-time meeting transcription, automatic speaker recognition, and instant search — powered by proprietary 'Ambient Voice Intelligence' technology, with a Zoom licensing deal already secured.
Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of Pokémon Go player photos into a 30-billion-image map that now powers real-world robot navigation, with Coco Robotics already deploying the technology across 1,000 delivery robots in major cities worldwide.
Apple Intelligence is saving iPhone users over $200 a year by offering free, unlimited voice memo transcription directly in iOS 18, making paid services like Otter.ai's $17-per-month Pro plan increasingly hard to justify.
The White House releases a national AI framework seeking to block state-level regulations and limit federal oversight, outlining six congressional objectives including streamlined data center permits and IP protections, as critics warn the plan leaves citizens vulnerable to AI harms while supporters praise it as a pro-innovation breakthrough.
Halter, a startup making AI-powered smart collars for cows, is in talks to raise funding that would more than double its valuation to over $2 billion, with Peter Thiel's Founders Fund set to lead the round.
Nvidia GTC 2026 unveils a sweeping AI strategy spanning robotics, personal agents, and open models with the new Nemotron Coalition, as the company fights to defend its CUDA dominance against rising competitors and cement itself as the foundational platform of the entire AI industry.