Ransomware gangs now weaponize AI to execute complete cyberattacks in just 25 minutes, with 80% of criminal groups offering automated tools as AI-powered threats account for 91% of all cyber losses in early 2025.
Anthropic unleashes Claude Code web app generating $500 million in annualized revenue with 10x user growth since May, escalating the fierce battle against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and rivals as AI coding agents move toward full automation.
Fish Audio unveils S1 voice cloning technology that perfectly replicates human speech patterns, accents, and tone using only 10 seconds of audio samples, while undercutting major competitor ElevenLabs by 600% with $5 million in annual revenue and 20,000 active developers.
Adobe launches AI Foundry, an enterprise service enabling businesses to create custom generative AI models trained exclusively on their own intellectual property, addressing copyright concerns while meeting marketers' expectations of fivefold content growth by 2027.
OpenAI blocks Martin Luther King Jr. video generation on its Sora platform after his estate complains about disrespectful AI depictions, including videos showing the civil rights leader making monkey noises, while crude AI videos of other historical figures remain available.
Facebook launches AI photo editor across US and Canada that analyzes users' private camera roll photos by uploading them to Meta's cloud servers, gaining access to unshared personal images and facial data for creative editing suggestions.
Google launches Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API, enabling developers to build location-aware AI applications that tap into geospatial data from over 250 million places for enhanced travel planning, real estate insights, and hyper-local recommendations.
Researchers discover that adding a single sentence to AI prompts doubles output diversity by up to 2.1× while maintaining quality, with the technique called Verbalized Sampling bypassing AI models' tendency to give repetitive answers and showing particular success in creative writing and dialogue tasks.
Medal founder Pim de Witte launches AI lab General Intuition with $133.7 million seed funding after rejecting a $500 million OpenAI acquisition offer, planning to use 2 billion annual gaming videos to develop AI models that navigate 3D environments and interact with the real world.
Anthropic unveils Claude Skills, a groundbreaking feature that enables its AI assistant to dynamically load specialized abilities from simple Markdown files, offering more efficient task automation than existing protocols while requiring only basic coding environments to function.