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.
AI startup Ankar raises $20 million to revolutionize patent approval processes, using language models to slash approval times from 24 months while increasing productivity by 40% for clients like L'Oréal.
Sam Altman's AGI masterclass goes viral as industry experts debate potential AI bubble concerns, while new VoiceAgentBench research exposes significant gaps in current voice assistants' ability to handle complex tasks, even as breakthrough Voila voice-language models promise emotionally expressive real-time AI agents.
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash AI model, delivering Pro-grade reasoning capabilities 3x faster than previous versions while using 30% fewer tokens, now processing over 1 trillion tokens daily and becoming the default model in Gemini app globally with developer access through multiple platforms.
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo, revolutionary language models that process raw UTF-8 bytes directly without tokenizers, offering superior multilingual capabilities and handling of text errors through innovative 'bytefying' technology that transforms existing models cost-effectively.
DoorDash launches Zesty, an AI-powered social app that delivers personalized restaurant recommendations by analyzing data from multiple platforms including TikTok and Google Maps, now available in San Francisco Bay Area and New York with social sharing features.
Google Labs unveils CC, an experimental AI agent powered by Gemini that integrates Gmail, Calendar, and Drive to automatically deliver personalized daily productivity briefings with schedule summaries, task updates, and pre-drafted emails to users' inboxes each morning, now available in early access for U.S. and Canadian subscribers.