Intel's AI robotics and biometrics unit RealSense secures $50 million in Series A funding, spinning off as an independent venture to develop new product lines and capitalize on the surging demand for robotics automation.
Anthropic's Veo 3 update introduces speech for video clips created from images, while Flow expands globally to over 140 countries, although its audio generation capabilities remain experimental with inconsistent quality.
OpenAI unveils an AI-powered web browser, integrating its Operator web-browsing agent, challenging Google Chrome's dominance and gaining direct access to user data.
Grok 4, a groundbreaking multimodal AI, unveils deeper thinking, faster performance, and multimodal capabilities supporting text, images, and potentially video, aiming to overcome bias concerns with improved content moderation for enhanced credibility.
Meta, Facebook's parent company, acquires a minority stake worth around $3.51 billion in EssilorLuxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, signaling its ambitions to expand into wearable technology and AI-powered devices, with shares of EssilorLuxottica surging 6%.
Apple revolutionizes wearable tech, unveiling augmented reality smart glasses with AI capabilities for translation, navigation, and more, slated for a 2026 launch after rigorous prototype testing and production ramp-up.
OpenAI intensifies the war for AI talent, poaching 4 high-ranking engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta to bolster its scaling team and build advanced AI infrastructure.
Venture capitalists pour millions into AI-driven fashion startups, with $162 million invested in 2022 alone; AI revolutionizes trend forecasting, design tools, personalization, virtual try-ons, smart manufacturing, and sustainability for the fashion industry.
Players at Wimbledon express frustration over AI line-calling technology making incorrect calls, costing them points, despite officials defending the system's accuracy over human judges.
Meta strikes a blow in the AI talent war, poaching Ruoming Pang, Apple's head of AI models who oversaw training for the tech giant's in-house AI systems, in a potential exodus from Apple's troubled artificial intelligence division.