Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for nearly $2 billion in its second-largest deal ever, gaining revolutionary technology that reads facial expressions and micro-movements to enable silent speech communication with Siri through future headphones and glasses.
OpenAI unveils an upgraded Codex app for macOS that revolutionizes coding by letting developers manage multiple AI agents simultaneously across parallel project threads, featuring custom Agent Skills, automated background tasks, and team-based delegation capabilities that surpass single-agent competitors like Claude Code.
Google releases Project Genie, an experimental AI prototype that transforms text and image prompts into interactive virtual worlds and game-like environments, featuring real-time exploration, world creation, and editing capabilities as the tech giant advances toward artificial general intelligence.
Google releases Project Genie AI world model to U.S. subscribers, enabling users to create interactive virtual environments through text and images, explore real-time generated worlds, and remix existing creations, though current limitations include 60-second generation caps and control issues.
OpenAI's Sora video app crashes with downloads plummeting 45% in January and consumer spending dropping 32% as copyright controversies and fierce competition from Google's Gemini and Meta AI send the once-promising platform tumbling from top charts to No. 101 on App Store.
China pours $3 billion into AI-powered traditional medicine, enabling automated tongue scans and pulse readings at clinics, while establishing 30 overseas centers to export the tech-enhanced ancient healing practices globally despite challenges quantifying abstract concepts like qi and yin-yang.
Google unveils Gemini 3 AI model featuring revolutionary Agentic Vision technology that investigates images like a human detective, zooming into details, executing Python code for annotations, and converting data tables into visual charts with 10% better performance across vision benchmarks.
AI system called AnomalyMatch discovers over 1,400 previously unknown cosmic anomalies in Hubble Space Telescope's 35-year archive, analyzing 100 million images in just 2.5 days to identify merging galaxies, gravitational lenses, and dozens of mysterious objects that defy classification.
Google launches Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash, revolutionizing AI image analysis by enabling the model to actively investigate photos through Python code execution, cropping, and annotation in a Think-Act-Observe loop that delivers 5-10% quality improvements across vision benchmarks.
Chinese AI companies Moonshot AI and DeepSeek release breakthrough open-source models that rival OpenAI and Google's closed systems, dominating the market as US firms retreat from open development and developers seek cost-effective alternatives.