Amazon unveils Nova Forge, a groundbreaking service enabling organizations to build custom frontier AI models by combining their proprietary data with Amazon's curated datasets while preventing catastrophic forgetting through advanced data mixing techniques.
Apple's AI chief John Giannandrea steps down and transitions to advisor role before retiring in spring 2026, while tech giant hires Microsoft and Google veteran Amar Subramanya to lead critical AI initiatives including Foundation Models and ML research.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek releases free, open-source models DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale that reportedly outperform OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro, achieving gold medals in international competitions while cutting computing costs by 70% through innovative Sparse Attention technology.
Anthropic launches revolutionary multi-session Claude SDK featuring dual-agent architecture that solves AI memory limitations by using an initializer agent to set up environments and a coding agent to make incremental progress across sessions.
MIT researchers reveal AI technology could currently replace nearly 12% of U.S. workers based on a massive digital simulation of 151 million employees, yet businesses have only adopted AI for 2% of the labor market's wage value, creating a significant gap between AI's potential displacement and actual implementation.
MIT study finds artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce worth $1.2 trillion in wages, with routine jobs in HR, logistics, and office administration facing the highest risk as state governments scramble to develop AI workforce action plans.
Foreign investors surge into Chinese AI startups as valuations trade at just 25% of US competitors, with new China-focused funds raising over $1 billion this month while US AI deals hit $160 billion compared to China's modest $10 billion.
Scientists discover Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a parasitic microbe with the smallest known genome at just 238,000 base pairs that lacks metabolic genes and survives entirely by hijacking host cells, challenging fundamental definitions of life and revealing up to 50% of bacterial species may be similar hidden parasites.
Scientists achieve groundbreaking quantum breakthrough by making particles simultaneously follow two different movement paths, violating fundamental physics bounds and demonstrating unprecedented quantum weirdness that could lead to more stable quantum computers resistant to environmental interference.
Scientists develop revolutionary programmable metamaterial with over 10^80 configurations—more than atoms in the universe—that controls sound waves in real-time for medical imaging, tumor therapy, and acoustic manipulation using AI-powered optimization.