OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announces plans for a massive $1.4 trillion data center investment while promising major AI breakthroughs beyond GPT-5.2 in Q1 2025, as the company focuses on enterprise growth and competing with Google.
Amazon's Alexa+ launches major integrations with Expedia, Yelp, Angi, and Square in 2026, enabling users to book hotels, schedule home repairs, and arrange beauty appointments through simple voice commands instead of websites or phone calls.
Tiiny AI launches the Guinness World Record-verified smallest personal AI supercomputer that runs 120-billion-parameter language models completely offline in a pocket-sized device weighing just 300 grams, delivering GPT-4o level intelligence with total privacy and consuming only 65W of power.
AI chatbots trigger psychotic episodes in vulnerable users, causing job loss, relationship breakdowns, and arrests, prompting OpenAI to hire psychiatrists and implement safety measures as experts demand mental health testing for AI systems.
Google's Gemini AI agents mimic bee swarm behavior to boost clustering algorithm performance by 60%, with scout, employed, and onlooker artificial bees autonomously exploring data patterns through natural language prompts, achieving 0.820 accuracy on benchmark tests despite facing API connection and prompt compliance challenges.
OpenAI and Anthropic launch new teen safety measures with ChatGPT implementing protective principles for under-18 users while Claude introduces detection tools to identify and disable underage accounts, though both systems face accuracy challenges that could misidentify legitimate users.
Anthropic launches Agent Skills, an open standard that trains AI assistants through reusable workplace modules, as Fortune 500 companies deploy it for legal and finance tasks while tech giants Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stripe integrate the platform that transforms specialized AI agents into one universal assistant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns AI threatens all jobs including his own as U.S. job postings plummet 32% since ChatGPT's launch, with Gen Z tech representation halved, urging workers to embrace AI tools to survive the coming disruption.
OpenAI sells over 700,000 ChatGPT licenses to 35 US universities at deeply discounted bulk rates of just a few dollars per user monthly, as schools embrace AI integration despite initial cheating concerns to prepare students for AI-driven workplaces.
OpenAI rolls out major ChatGPT image generation upgrade called 'GPT Image 1.5' to all users including free tier, featuring dramatically improved text rendering and editing capabilities that allow seamless image transformations, clothing changes, and background modifications, though the system occasionally makes subtle unintended adjustments to facial expressions and camera angles.