Google unveils AI-powered smart glasses at Google I/O, partnering with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker for a fall release, featuring Gemini AI integration via smartphone and audio-only output, as the tech giant moves to compete in the rapidly expanding smart glasses market.
ChatGPT is rolling out deeper personalization features for its 900 million users, allowing customization of tone, memory, and communication style, as OpenAI pushes toward a future where the AI adapts naturally without manual configuration.
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's new default model, delivering 52.5% fewer hallucinations on high-stakes medical, legal, and financial prompts, dramatically reduced emoji overuse, and smarter memory features that transparently show users which past conversations and files shaped each response.
Pope Leo XIV issues a landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence, drawing direct parallels to Pope Leo XIII's historic 1891 labor rights doctrine, offering moral guidance on AI's growing impact on society.
DeepSeek is raising $10 billion in new funding while pledging to prioritize AGI research and open-source AI development over short-term profits, with founder Liang Wenfeng doubling down on the company's mission to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence.
Pope Leo XIV issues a landmark 44,000-word encyclical demanding a ban on lethal AI weapons, limits on Big Tech power, and protections for children online, framing AI development as a defining moral crossroads between profit-driven dominance and human dignity — with even Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah attending the Vatican presentation …
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn reverses a controversial policy that tied employee performance reviews to AI usage, acknowledging that job outcomes matter more than forced AI adoption, as workers push back against being evaluated on tool usage rather than results.
DeepSeek slashes V4 Pro prices by 75% to $0.87 per million output tokens, dramatically undercutting rivals like GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.7, igniting an AI price war while geopolitical tensions and accusations of unauthorized training data theft from Anthropic continue to cloud the Chinese AI company's rapid market expansion.
A GitHub repo with 154K stars is going viral for offering a single CLAUDE.md file that enforces four key principles to fix common AI coding assistant failures, including avoiding silent assumptions, prioritizing simplicity, making only surgical code changes, and using goal-driven execution with verifiable success criteria.
A alarming new study reveals 63% of workers are faking AI skills out of job security fears, while simultaneously sabotaging workplace AI adoption, creating a 'double distortion' crisis experts say stems from a failure in learning culture, not technology.