A shocking 72% of teens now use AI companions for emotional support and romantic relationships, with many finding these digital interactions as satisfying as real friendships, prompting experts to call for bans due to mental health risks and concerns about replacing human connections.
Kernel secures $22M in funding to enable AI agents to browse the internet, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize over Trump, and Apple raises bug bounty rewards to $2M to combat nation-state hacking threats.
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model in public preview, allowing developers to create AI agents that control devices by clicking, typing, and scrolling like humans, outperforming competitors on benchmarks while featuring comprehensive safety measures to prevent misuse.
OpenAI revolutionizes ChatGPT by integrating third-party apps from Booking.com, Spotify, Figma, and others, allowing users to directly access external services through natural language commands within conversations, though privacy concerns emerge over data sharing with developers.
ElevenLabs unveils Agent Workflows platform featuring specialized subagents with individual system prompts and knowledge bases, visual conversation flow design, human operator transfers, and optimized performance through different AI models for various tasks.
OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive's ambitious palm-sized, screenless AI device hits major roadblocks as engineers struggle with 'always on' functionality, privacy concerns, and computing infrastructure issues, potentially derailing the planned 2026 launch.
Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman delay their revolutionary palm-sized screenless AI device launch due to computing power struggles, software glitches, and privacy concerns, as the team scrambles to avoid the fate of Humane's failed AI Pin while perfecting camera-microphone-speaker communication technology.
Voice AI evaluation standards prove inadequate for 2025 demands as experts call for new metrics measuring end-to-end task success, barge-in behavior, and hallucination-under-noise, moving beyond traditional speech recognition benchmarks that fail to capture real-world performance of modern voice agents.
Software engineers unlock coveted staff+ positions by mastering cross-team collaboration, driving strategic business impact, and mentoring colleagues rather than focusing solely on coding metrics, with success measured through organizational influence and cultural leadership.
Meta's V-JEPA AI learns physics from videos like a human baby, achieving 98% accuracy on reality tests by discovering object permanence and showing measurable surprise at impossible events, though its memory currently lasts only seconds.