Chrome launches groundbreaking Gemini AI updates featuring an auto-browse capability that automatically handles complex tasks like vacation planning and shopping, plus new integrations with Gmail, Calendar, and other Google apps for seamless cross-platform assistance.
Open source AI assistant Moltbot rockets to 69,000 GitHub stars in just one month despite exposing users to serious security vulnerabilities through extensive system access requirements and prompting a $16 million cryptocurrency scam exploiting its sudden popularity.
Anthropic's Claude Code AI sparks viral 'vibecoding' trend as non-programmers build apps through simple prompts, while software engineers express growing concern that the autonomous tool replicates decades of expertise and threatens traditional programming careers.
Anthropic secures massive $20 billion funding round at $350 billion valuation, doubling its original target as the AI startup rides unprecedented investor demand following previous raises totaling $28 billion from tech giants including Nvidia and Microsoft.
Chinese AI companies Moonshot AI and DeepSeek release breakthrough open-source models that rival OpenAI and Google's closed systems, dominating the market as US firms retreat from open development and developers seek cost-effective alternatives.
Anthropic secures up to $15 billion in funding at a staggering $350 billion valuation, with Coatue and Singapore's GIC leading the oversubscribed round as Microsoft and Nvidia consider additional investments in the Claude AI developer.
Google launches 'Just Ask Anything' feature and deploys Gemini 3 AI globally as the company battles declining usage, with 37% of consumers now abandoning traditional search engines for AI tools instead.
Hundreds of AI agent control panels remain dangerously exposed online due to misconfiguration, giving hackers direct access to API keys, user conversations, and administrative controls that enable them to impersonate users and execute malicious commands across major platforms including Telegram, Slack, and Discord.
OpenAI launches Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX editor designed specifically for scientists to streamline research paper writing, responding to 1.3 million researchers submitting over 8 million weekly science queries to ChatGPT.
DeepSeek-AI launches DeepSeek-OCR-2, an open-source visual OCR model featuring groundbreaking Visual Causal Flow technology that mimics human visual processing, supporting dynamic resolution up to 6×768×768 plus 1×1024×1024 image patches with document-to-markdown conversion, PDF processing, and streaming output capabilities through vLLM and Transformers frameworks.