HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah unveils Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), a revolutionary SEO strategy designed to get businesses cited in ChatGPT responses as AI threatens Google's search dominance, while warning about hidden risks of low-quality AI content damaging rankings.
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and licenses iconic Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel characters for the Sora AI video generator, marking Hollywood's major embrace of artificial intelligence technology with fan-requested content launching in early 2026 on Disney+.
AI image generators now produce nearly undetectable fake images by strategically lowering quality in specific ways, evolving from obviously flawed 256x256 pixel thumbnails with extra fingers to sophisticated fakes that eliminate traditional tells like fuzzy contours and nonsense text.
San Francisco-based Dragoneer Investment Group successfully raises $4.3 billion for its seventh venture capital fund in just months, defying a sluggish fundraising market and bringing total assets under management to over $30 billion while maintaining major stakes in OpenAI, Airbnb, and Uber.
Google launches upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio featuring live speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages while preserving speaker intonation, now rolling out to enterprise customers and beta users in the US, Mexico, and India.
Google launches Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses Gemini AI to generate complete videos from simple text prompts, featuring 8-second clip creation, AI avatars, and collaborative editing capabilities now available to Workspace users.
Solve Intelligence secures $40M Series B funding to expand its AI-powered patent law services, achieving eight-figure annual recurring revenue and profitability while serving 400 intellectual property teams in a rapidly growing $3.2 billion legal tech market.
Thinking Machines Lab launches Tinker platform featuring Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion-parameter AI model with advanced vision capabilities that outperforms traditional models in image processing and classification tasks with limited data.
Google launches Disco, an experimental web platform featuring AI-powered GenTabs that automatically creates interactive applications by analyzing users' browser tabs and chat history to complete complex online tasks without requiring any coding skills.
Disney fires cease-and-desist letter at Google, accusing the tech giant of running a 'virtual vending machine' that mass-produces unauthorized AI images of beloved Frozen, Star Wars, and Marvel characters through its systems, escalating a major copyright battle between entertainment and artificial intelligence industries.