Google's AI summaries discourage users from clicking source links, as they prefer browsing over visiting cited websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Reddit, with government sites appearing more frequently than in regular searches.
Google Photos unveils innovative features including Photo to video for animating stills, Remix for transforming photos into anime or sketches, and a Creative Hub consolidating all creative tools like collages and highlight videos, enhancing the photo editing experience.
Aeneas, a groundbreaking AI model, revolutionizes the interpretation of ancient Latin inscriptions by reasoning across thousands of texts, retrieving contextual parallels to restore fragments, predict dates and locations, and attribute inscriptions to Roman provinces, transforming historians' ability to connect the past.
In a stunning move, Meta offers a potential AI hire an eye-watering $1.25 billion contract over four years, amounting to $312 million annually, but the individual rejects the staggering offer as tech giants wage a fierce battle for elite AI talent.
ChatGPT surges with over 2.5 billion daily requests, 330 million from US users, posing a major threat to Google's search dominance as OpenAI prepares to release an AI-powered web browser.
Greptile, an AI startup offering code review tools, secures $30M Series A funding at $180M valuation, intensifying rivalry with competitors like Graphite and Coderabbit in the rapidly growing AI code review market.
Microsoft imposes restrictions, preventing forked versions of Visual Studio Code like Cursor from accessing official Microsoft extensions, causing issues for users relying on popular tools like the C/C++ extension, forcing a temporary workaround of downgrading and disabling auto-updates.
DeepSeek V3, OLMo 2, and Gemma 3 unleash groundbreaking transformer models, harnessing techniques like Multi-Head Latent Attention, QK-norm, and sliding window attention for improved efficiency, stability, and reduced memory footprint.
Decart, a startup, unveils Mirage, an AI model capable of transforming live video in real-time, generating 20 frames per second with low latency, enabling users to create and modify videos through an upcoming website and app.
In a surprising move, Anthropic rehires Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, key leaders behind its coding product Claude Code, just two weeks after they departed for Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.