Baidu unveils X1.1 AI model matching OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, boasting 34.8% knowledge accuracy boost, enhanced instruction compliance, and availability through Baidu cloud and Ernie Bot.
A programmer achieves a staggering 16-fold productivity boost, completing 24 days' worth of coding in just 12 hours using the $20 AI tool Codex, though the tool unexpectedly cuts off access mid-project due to usage limits.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman loses sleep over ChatGPT's ethical risks, proposes 'AI privilege' to protect privacy as the company's valuation soars to $500 billion with a $10 billion chip deal.
Penske Media Corporation, owner of publications like The Hollywood Reporter and Rolling Stone, sues Google over alleged illegal use of its journalism for AI summaries, claiming reduced traffic in a potentially defining legal battle over AI and compensation.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5-Codex, a powerful AI coding assistant with dynamic thinking capabilities, outperforming previous models in agentic coding and code refactoring, while dynamically allocating 'thinking' time from seconds to hours on coding tasks.
Reve unveils a groundbreaking image creation and editing platform combining an image generator, remixer, editor, assistant, and API, enabling precise manipulation and granular edits through a new visual language representing images as code-like intermediate representations.
Google Gemini rockets to #1 on the US App Store, adding 23 million users in two weeks thanks to its free Nano Banana image editing model allowing up to 100 daily image generations for non-subscribers and 1,000 for paid subscribers.
Two leading Japanese newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei, sue U.S. AI firm Perplexity AI for $14.9 million each over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted articles and spreading misinformation through its search engine.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad predicts AI will make all application software free, with companies relying on creativity amplified by AI agents for competitive advantage as automated software engineering eliminates manual coding.
Originality AI unveils a free AI Humanizer tool that rewrites AI-generated content to sound more natural and human-like, allowing users to adjust the tone and depth of rewriting to maintain an authentic brand voice, blending artificial intelligence with human nuance.