AI video company Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from investors including General Atlantic, Nvidia, and Adobe to develop revolutionary 'world models' technology that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
Harvard researchers discover AI tools paradoxically increase employee workloads at tech companies, as workers take on broader responsibilities and extend hours despite completing individual tasks faster, with non-technical staff now tackling coding while failing to recognize their escalating burden until initial excitement fades.
Multi-agent AI research explodes from 820 to 2,500 papers as companies discover that system architecture, not prompts, determines whether AI teams succeed or fail in real-world applications.
OpenClaw, a viral AI agent with 145,000 GitHub stars, operates autonomously as an 'AI employee' but harbors critical security flaws including remote code execution vulnerabilities and malicious skills that can steal sensitive data.
Software engineers experience 'AI fatigue' as productivity tools create a paradox where they ship more code than ever but face increased coordination burdens, skill atrophy, and constant context-switching that transforms their roles from deep problem-solving to endless code review management.
Databricks secures $5 billion in funding, catapulting its valuation to $134 billion as the data analytics giant reports explosive 65% revenue growth to $5.4 billion annually while achieving positive cash flow and eyeing a potential 2026 IPO.
Elon Musk's xAI opens a massive 25,000-square-foot engineering hub in downtown Bellevue just minutes from OpenAI's offices, creating an AI battleground as the company recruits engineers with salaries up to $440,000 for core AI research and development roles.
Google launches revolutionary Interactions API that replaces traditional AI prompts with stateful session management, enabling developers to build persistent AI applications with background processing capabilities and explicit context tracking that survives across sessions while reducing costs.
Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI agents for automating accounting, trading reconciliation, and client onboarding, with embedded engineers building autonomous systems that executives expect will accelerate processes and limit future hiring rather than trigger immediate layoffs.
AI.com launches autonomous agents that independently trade stocks, manage dating profiles, and organize calendars for users, with the platform creating personalized AI assistants in just 60 seconds under leadership of Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek.