Google Labs dramatically expands its no-code AI app builder Opal from 15 to over 160 countries worldwide, enabling users to automate complex workflows, streamline research, generate marketing content, and build language learning apps within minutes without coding expertise.
Microsoft launches new MAI Superintelligence Team led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to develop advanced artificial intelligence applications for healthcare diagnostics, education, and renewable energy, marking the tech giant's push to reduce OpenAI dependence and compete with Meta's similar research investments.
Google dramatically expands NotebookLM AI assistant with massive 1 million token context window, 6x longer conversational memory, 50% better response quality, and customizable personas that can act as specialized roles like PhD advisor or marketing strategist.
Google launches Google Skills, a unified learning platform featuring 3,000 courses from across its divisions, gamified experiences with AI-powered labs, and direct job placement connections to over 150 employers including fast-track hiring processes.
European research funding faces a crisis as grant applications surge 65% to record highs while success rates crash into single digits, with scientists now competing against overwhelming odds for static budgets.
South Korea strips AI textbooks of official status after just four months due to technical failures, factual errors, and privacy concerns, with adoption rates plummeting from 37% to 19% amid political turmoil and promises to cancel the $850 million program.
OpenAI establishes an eight-member Expert Council on Well-Being and AI to address mental health concerns following an FTC investigation into ChatGPT's effects on children, implementing new safety controls including age prediction systems and parental oversight features.
Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus hires former Meta AI VP Jerome Pesenti as CTO and acquires his 1.7 million-user learning platform Sizzle AI, accelerating their engineering roadmap by 2-3 years as they disrupt community college education with $7,320 annual tuition.
AI coding tools now write 95% or more of the code for a quarter of Y Combinator's startup clients, raising alarm that junior developers may lose essential problem-solving skills by bypassing traditional debugging and manual coding experience that builds programming expertise.
A shocking new national survey reveals nearly 20% of high schoolers report romantic relationships with AI while schools struggle with surging data breaches, deepfake harassment, and students becoming increasingly disconnected from teachers as AI usage skyrockets.