Salesforce slashes 4,000 customer support jobs as AI bots now handle half the company's workload, reducing human staff from 9,000 to 5,000 positions while CEO Marc Benioff credits 'Agentforce' technology for the dramatic workforce reduction.
OpenAI launches a TikTok-style app powered by Sora 2 technology that generates AI-created videos in a vertical feed format, complete with swipe navigation, recommendation algorithms, and social features like liking, commenting, and remixing content.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that AI could automate 30 to 40 percent of human tasks, with artificial general intelligence potentially arriving before 2030, urging individuals, businesses, and governments to urgently prepare for massive economic disruption as mass layoffs already begin.
The EU AI Act becomes the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation, banning high-risk systems like cognitive manipulation and real-time biometric identification starting February 2025, while requiring transparency measures for generative AI platforms like ChatGPT.
Apple secretly develops internal ChatGPT rival called 'Veritas' to test revolutionary AI features for Siri's massive overhaul, scheduled to launch March 2026 with capabilities including AI-powered personal data search and in-app photo editing through new 'Linwood' system combining Apple's language models with third-party AI technology.
German AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs pursues $300 million funding round targeting a $4 billion valuation, quadrupling from its previous $1 billion worth as explosive demand for AI image-editing systems attracts massive investor interest.
AI actress Tilly Norwood captures multiple talent agents' attention after her comedy debut, as her creator boldly declares plans to make her the next Scarlett Johansson while studios quietly advance artificial intelligence entertainment projects driven by economic pressures and the belief that audiences prioritize compelling stories over human performers.
Hollywood talent agencies consider signing AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood from studio Xicoia, sparking fierce backlash from prominent actors like Melissa Barrera who threaten boycotts against agencies representing digital performers as the entertainment industry grapples with artificial intelligence's growing presence in film, TV, and gaming.
Tencent launches HunyuanImage-3.0, the world's largest open-source AI image generator with 80 billion parameters and revolutionary autoregressive architecture, featuring 64 experts in a Mixture of Experts design that delivers superior text-to-image generation with advanced world-knowledge reasoning capabilities.
Hugging Face releases Smol2Operator, an open-source system that transforms a basic 2.2B vision model into a powerful GUI coding agent capable of understanding and interacting with mobile, desktop, and web interfaces through innovative two-phase training.