Major AI systems from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Meta generate millions of promising new materials, but scientists discover 80-84% contain fatal flaws that make them impossible to synthesize in reality.
Software engineers unlock coveted staff+ positions by mastering cross-team collaboration, driving strategic business impact, and mentoring colleagues rather than focusing solely on coding metrics, with success measured through organizational influence and cultural leadership.
Meta's V-JEPA AI learns physics from videos like a human baby, achieving 98% accuracy on reality tests by discovering object permanence and showing measurable surprise at impossible events, though its memory currently lasts only seconds.
Anthropic appoints former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as new chief technical officer while co-founder Sam McCandlish moves to chief architect role, as the AI company restructures leadership to address infrastructure strain from Claude's surging popularity and intensifying competition from OpenAI and Meta's massive investments.
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf claims current AI models are too agreeable and consensus-driven to achieve Nobel Prize-level scientific breakthroughs, arguing that while AI excels as research assistants, transformative discoveries require the contrarian thinking that AI systems fundamentally lack.
OpenAI's Sora AI video app skyrockets to No. 3 on the US App Store within just 48 hours of launch, garnering 164,000 downloads despite being invite-only and outperforming major AI competitors like Claude and Copilot in early adoption metrics.
Meta launches Business AI assistant that delivers personalized shopping recommendations and faster checkout through chat on Facebook and Instagram, expanding to WhatsApp and Messenger while partnering with major CRM platforms to diversify beyond advertising revenue.
Alphabet stock drops 0.6% as AI startup Perplexity makes its premium $200-per-month AI browser Comet completely free, directly challenging Google Chrome's dominance with features that summarize webpages and extract key information while promising to combat low-quality online content.
Federal judge delivers landmark antitrust ruling against Google, banning exclusive search deals that made Google the default on phones and devices while allowing the tech giant to keep its Chrome browser, marking the most significant monopoly case since Microsoft in the 1990s.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts OpenAI will become the world's first multitrillion-dollar company while announcing a massive $100 billion investment to fund data center expansion, dismissing AI bubble warnings by claiming artificial intelligence represents a fundamental computing revolution with exponential demand growth.