Thinking Machines Lab launches Tinker platform featuring Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion-parameter AI model with advanced vision capabilities that outperforms traditional models in image processing and classification tasks with limited data.
Robotics companies face a massive 100,000-year data shortage compared to AI language models, prompting industry leaders like Waymo and Ambi Robotics to combine traditional engineering with AI to create commercial robots that generate real-world data while performing tasks like driving taxis and sorting packages.
Google launches Model Context Protocol support, enabling AI agents to directly access Google Maps, BigQuery, and Cloud services through unified APIs, with plans to expand to additional cloud platforms in coming months.
Matillion releases executive guide promising 95% reduction in manual data engineering work through AI-powered agents called Maia that work around the clock, focusing on platform consolidation and accelerating AI projects from concept to production.
Microsoft releases GigaTIME, an AI tool that generates detailed immune system data from cancer pathology slides in minutes rather than days, potentially revolutionizing precision cancer medicine by eliminating expensive testing that costs thousands of dollars per sample.
Amazon announces massive $35 billion investment in India by 2030, promising to create 3.8 million jobs, boost exports to $80 billion, and provide AI education to 4 million students while supporting 15 million small businesses through AI-driven digitization initiatives.
Google launches fully managed MCP servers that enable AI agents to seamlessly connect to Maps, BigQuery, and other cloud services without complex setup, using open-source protocols and existing security infrastructure at no additional cost to enterprise customers.
OpenAI acquires AI training startup Neptune for under $400 million in stock as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a potential trillion-dollar IPO that could rank among the largest public offerings in history.
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.
Enterprise AI spending explodes to $37 billion in 2025—a staggering 220% increase—as Anthropic crushes OpenAI by capturing 40% market share compared to OpenAI's declining 27%, with AI startups dominating the $19 billion application market and coding emerging as the first $4 billion killer use case.