Google DeepMind unveils a groundbreaking AGI progress framework identifying 10 key cognitive benchmarks — including reasoning, memory, and social cognition — while launching a $200K Kaggle hackathon challenging researchers to build evaluations for under-measured AI abilities.
Google is rolling out its AI-powered Personal Intelligence feature to all US users for free, connecting Gemini to Gmail and Google Photos to deliver hyper-personalized shopping and travel recommendations — no manual input required, though it remains off by default and limited to personal accounts.
Microsoft is restructuring its AI operations, uniting its workplace and personal Copilot teams under a single leader, Jacob Andreou, in a major consolidation move announced by CEO Satya Nadella.
Google is rolling out Personal Intelligence to free U.S. users, connecting Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode, the Gemini app, and Chrome to deliver personalized shopping, travel, and hobby recommendations — while giving users full control over their data connections.
Microsoft merges its Consumer and Commercial Copilot teams into one unified AI organization, appointing Jacob Andreou as EVP of Copilot while Mustafa Suleyman shifts focus to Superintelligence and frontier model development.
AWS launches llm-d disaggregated inference on SageMaker HyperPod and EKS, delivering up to 70% higher LLM throughput by splitting compute-heavy prefill and memory-bound decode phases across distributed GPUs using an open-source Kubernetes-native framework built on vLLM.
A groundbreaking study reveals that AI tools powered by curated scientific databases dramatically outperform open web-based rivals in expert-level superconductivity knowledge tests, with NotebookLM and a custom retrieval-augmented generation system topping rankings across accuracy, comprehensiveness, and evidence quality — though all tested models still struggle with temporal reasoning and interpreting …
Google Labs launches Stitch SDK, an open-source TypeScript library that lets developers instantly generate UI screens from simple text prompts, complete with HTML extraction, screenshot support, and seamless AI framework integration.
Alibaba launches Token Hub, a new AI business unit under CEO Eddie Wu, and unveils Wukong, an enterprise-focused agentic AI service built on its Qwen model, in a major push to monetize artificial intelligence amid widespread consumer reluctance to pay for software in China.
Amazon and NVIDIA are joining forces to deliver a powerful multimodal AI assistant for vehicles by 2027, combining Alexa Custom Assistant with NVIDIA's DRIVE AGX platform to enable natural conversation, ambient awareness, and seamless cloud-connected features like smart home control and music streaming directly from the car.