Anthropic appoints former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as new chief technical officer while co-founder Sam McCandlish moves to chief architect role, as the AI company restructures leadership to address infrastructure strain from Claude's surging popularity and intensifying competition from OpenAI and Meta's massive investments.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts OpenAI will become the world's first multitrillion-dollar company while announcing a massive $100 billion investment to fund data center expansion, dismissing AI bubble warnings by claiming artificial intelligence represents a fundamental computing revolution with exponential demand growth.
Microsoft researchers discover AI can redesign deadly toxins to bypass DNA screening software and create undetectable biological weapons, prompting emergency patches to security systems as experts warn of an escalating arms race between AI-enabled bioterrorism and defense capabilities.
OpenAI completes a $6.6 billion secondary share sale that catapults the AI giant to a staggering $500 billion valuation, making it the world's most valuable private company while allowing long-tenured employees to cash out amid intense competition for top AI talent.
Amazon unveils four new Echo devices powered by Alexa+ generative AI starting at $99.99, featuring advanced AZ3 chips and enhanced contextual awareness to compete against OpenAI and Google in the escalating AI assistant battle.
Despite growing AI popularity, only 9% of Americans regularly use chatbots like ChatGPT for news, with half of those users encountering false information and struggling to verify accuracy, while younger adults show higher usage rates but face more misinformation challenges.
Character.AI removes Disney characters including Elsa, Darth Vader, and Spider-Man from its platform following Disney's cease-and-desist letter alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted characters in sexually exploitative chatbots, as the AI company faces multiple wrongful death lawsuits claiming its technology contributed to children's suicides and self-harm.
Google unveils AI-powered conversational image search that lets shoppers describe products in natural language like 'barrel jeans that aren't too baggy' and upload reference photos to find similar items, rolling out to US users this week with Gemini 2.5's advanced visual recognition technology.
Developer Tomas Vesely revolutionizes coding by writing entire applications in Markdown files that GitHub Copilot automatically compiles into functional code, solving AI context loss issues and dramatically speeding up development cycles.
Google DeepMind releases two groundbreaking AI models that transform robots into internet-savvy problem solvers capable of planning complex multi-step tasks like sorting laundry by color and packing weather-appropriate suitcases, achieving 20-40% success rates in early artificial general intelligence demonstrations.