Meta acquires AI startup Manus for $2 billion in one of the largest AI deals ever, gaining technology that creates autonomous agents capable of coding and complex tasks as the tech giant pivots from chatbots to compete with Google and OpenAI in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence race.
Google's Gemini AI agents mimic bee swarm behavior to boost clustering algorithm performance by 60%, with scout, employed, and onlooker artificial bees autonomously exploring data patterns through natural language prompts, achieving 0.820 accuracy on benchmark tests despite facing API connection and prompt compliance challenges.
MIT researchers develop a bumblebee-sized robot weighing under 1 gram that flaps its wings 330 times per second, performs 10 consecutive somersaults in 11 seconds using AI-powered flight control, and could revolutionize search-and-rescue operations by navigating tight spaces within the next decade.
Boom Supersonic raises $300 million to develop AI data center turbines and lands a massive $1.25 billion order from Crusoe for 29 water-free, 42-megawatt units that use the same supersonic technology powering their commercial airliners.
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Beta for Slack, transforming the AI assistant into an autonomous coding partner that maintains codebase awareness, creates files, refactors code, runs tests, and provides progress updates directly within workplace messaging channels like a junior engineer.
Despite expecting 40% of projects to fail by 2027 due to reliability and security concerns, 93% of IT leaders plan to deploy AI agents by 2026, driven by early successes showing 30% faster problem resolution at major companies like Bayer and Siemens.
AWS unveils DevOps Agent, an autonomous AI system that automatically detects system incidents, identifies root causes by correlating data across monitoring tools, and manages crisis communications through Slack, now available free in public preview.
Jeff Bezos' secretive AI venture Project Prometheus acquires General Agents startup for its revolutionary computer pilot technology after raising a massive $6.2 billion and hiring 100+ employees to develop AI systems for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft.
Amazon launches Autonomous Threat Analysis, an AI system deploying competing red and blue teams that discovers new cyberattack methods within hours and develops 100% effective countermeasures in real-time.