Microsoft supercharges Excel Copilot with finance-grade AI tools, including customizable workflow skills for DCF modeling and variance analysis, live market data connectors from FactSet, S&P Global, and PitchBook, and full audit transparency through a new 'Plan with Copilot' feature that previews changes before execution.
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.
General Intuition secures $320M at a $2.3B valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train a groundbreaking AI model on millions of hours of gamer footage — powering video games, simulations, and real-world robots, while giving gamers a way to earn income through its new Nerve platform.
Google is losing top AI researchers to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in an equity-driven talent war, with Gemini contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, legendary researcher Noam Shazeer, and Nobel Prize-winner John Jumper all departing as pre-IPO equity packages lure elite talent away.
Orca launches a free, open-source AI Development Environment that lets developers run multiple coding agents like Claude Code and Codex simultaneously across desktop and mobile devices, all tracked in one unified interface under the MIT License.
A new GitHub repository called 'obsidian-skills' is taking the AI world by storm, teaching agents like Claude Code and Codex to interact with Obsidian vaults using Markdown, JSON Canvas, and CLI tools — and it has already amassed over 38,000 stars and 2,700 forks.
OpenAI unveils its first-generation AI inference chip, Jalapeño, developed with Broadcom, already powering GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark workloads with superior performance per watt, reducing reliance on Nvidia while positioning OpenAI as a major player across the entire AI hardware and datacenter stack.
AI agent adoption among US workers has surged to 68% as companies prepare to invest an average of $269 million in the next 12 months, though fears over job security and skills gaps fuel resistance amid rising AI-related layoffs and shrinking entry-level hiring.
Figma unveils a powerful suite of AI-driven design tools at its Config event, targeting full team collaboration across the design-to-development pipeline — with CEO Dylan Field emphasizing that human creativity remains at the center, while AI handles the repetitive work.
Meta launches 'Arena,' a standalone AI-powered prediction market app using its Llama model to auto-generate questions and resolve bets in near real-time, entering a booming but legally contested industry alongside rivals like Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings.