The AI boom triggers a critical shortage of 81,000 electricians annually through 2034 as tech giants like Google desperately compete for skilled tradespeople to build data centers, offering higher wages while battling housing and hospital projects for the same workers.
Cloudflare acquires UK-based AI data marketplace Human Native to develop new developer tools that enable fair transactions between AI creators and content providers, expanding the company's mission to revolutionize internet content monetization through transparent data access channels.
Google DeepMind CEO reveals Chinese AI models trail Western capabilities by mere months rather than years, though China still lacks breakthrough innovation capacity and faces major obstacles from U.S. chip export bans and significantly smaller computing infrastructure.
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary by welcoming Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as major partners who access its human-curated knowledge through enterprise APIs to power AI models, chatbots, and search engines across 300+ languages and 65 million pages receiving 15 billion monthly views.
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot implements new restrictions after global outrage and government investigations reveal the system was creating nonconsensual sexually explicit images, including of minors, prompting bans in Indonesia and Malaysia while California launches a formal probe.
California moves forward with groundbreaking youth AI safety legislation that requires age verification, bans child-targeted advertising, prohibits AI systems from forming emotional or romantic relationships with minors, and mandates independent safety audits with enforcement penalties.
Indonesia and Malaysia temporarily block X's Grok chatbot while the UK launches a formal investigation that could ban the platform entirely, after the AI tool generates nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children, prompting X to restrict the controversial feature to paying subscribers only.
President Trump directs federal agencies to sue states over AI regulations and threatens to cut funding from states with restrictive AI laws, while establishing a DOJ task force to challenge conflicting state legislation within 90 days.
NVIDIA launches a $1 billion AI drug discovery lab with pharmaceutical giant Lilly and expands its BioNeMo platform, partnering with major life sciences companies to automate scientific discovery through AI models that predict molecular structures and connect digital agents to robotic laboratory systems.
Slack launches a completely rebuilt AI-powered Slackbot that reads users' work conversations and files to provide instant catch-ups, personalized drafts, and complex document analysis, rolling out to premium customers today with enterprise-grade security protections.