Amazon's new policy mandates employees seeking promotions in its smart home division to demonstrate innovative AI use for achieving efficiency gains, fostering a culture of speed and 'doing more with less' through AI adoption.
Oracle unveils MCP server enabling AI agents to autonomously query and reason over enterprise data in Oracle Databases, boosting productivity and data utilization across sectors like pharma, healthcare, and finance.
Exponentially compounding error rates and quadratically scaling costs render multi-step autonomous AI workflows mathematically and economically infeasible at scale, underscoring the pressing need to develop effective human-AI collaboration tools and feedback systems.
Accenture unveils an AI-powered integration platform called the Accenture Advanced Technology Agent, featuring over 100 active agents that streamline IT operations by enabling direct interaction with technology platforms without filing tickets, accelerating tasks like configuring VPN connections by 93% with reduced errors.
Researchers discover nearly 2,000 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers exposed online without authentication, allowing potential hackers to execute commands, steal data, or launch denial of wallet attacks on critical systems.
Meta acquires PlayAI as voice AI ignites fierce competition, fueling a surge in investment with companies racing to secure conversational AI capabilities through acquisitions of startups like ElevenLabs, Cresta, and Cartesia amid rapid technological advancements enabling natural voice interaction.
Amazon introduces AgentCore, a comprehensive suite of services enabling secure, scalable deployment and operation of AI agents, empowering developers to build and run agents with any framework or model while ensuring runtime, memory, identity, observability, and integration capabilities.
Meta intensifies the race for artificial general intelligence by poaching two prominent researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, from OpenAI, offering lucrative compensation to bolster its AI capabilities under CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leadership.
A groundbreaking self-driving lab accelerates materials discovery through real-time data collection, gathering 10 times more data than previous techniques by continuously monitoring chemical reactions, enabling machine learning algorithms to make faster, more accurate predictions while reducing waste.
Google and Microsoft report significant surges in greenhouse gas emissions, with increases of 48% and 29% respectively, driven by the energy-intensive demands of their expanding artificial intelligence operations and data center construction.