Software engineering jobs surge 11% year over year as AI drives demand for technical talent, with vibe coding empowering novices but still requiring expert engineers for production-ready software, while enterprises increasingly ditch legacy SaaS platforms to build custom AI-powered tools in-house.
More than half of U.S. teens are using AI chatbots for schoolwork and research, but confidence in using the technology remains low, cheating concerns are rising, and many fear AI's long-term impact on jobs and society.
Viral stunt engineer Riley Walz, known for provocative web projects, joins OpenAI's secretive OAI Labs team to pioneer next-generation human-AI interfaces as the company races rivals Google and Anthropic for dominance.
Burger King launches an OpenAI-powered AI chatbot called 'Patty' that lives in employee headsets, monitoring customer interactions for friendliness while also streamlining kitchen operations by integrating with inventory, equipment, and point-of-sale systems in real time.
Apple launches a Python SDK for its Foundation Models framework, enabling developers to run on-device AI inference powered by Apple Intelligence directly from Python on macOS 26, with support for real-time text streaming, structured output, and batch inference — currently available in beta via GitHub.
Samsung Galaxy S26 is getting powerful Google AI upgrades, including a background-running Gemini assistant that handles multi-step tasks, enhanced Circle to Search with full outfit recognition, and on-device scam detection that alerts users to suspicious calls in real time while keeping all audio processing private.
Google launches a groundbreaking Gemini AI beta feature on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 that autonomously completes multi-step tasks like booking rides and reordering food in the background, rolling out now in the U.S. and Korea with built-in privacy safeguards.
Samsung's Galaxy S26 debuts the world's first agentic AI on a consumer device, powered by Google's Gemini, enabling multi-step background task automation with user approval — and the feature is already expanding to Pixel 10 devices, with a potential future rollout to iPhones through Google's Apple partnership.
AI coding agents are revolutionizing software development, forcing the industry to adopt formal specification languages and rigorous verification methods as natural language proves too imprecise for high-stakes AI-generated code.
A powerful new open-source Chat SDK has entered public beta, enabling developers to write bot logic once and deploy it across Slack, Teams, Discord, GitHub, and more using a single TypeScript codebase with built-in AI streaming and native UI rendering.