Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit 1,000 private sector technologists for two-year government roles at $150,000-$200,000 salaries, partnering with companies like Palantir, Meta, and Oracle, while ethics experts warn of conflicts of interest since participants won't divest stocks while accessing sensitive government data.
NVIDIA unveils Nemotron 3 AI models featuring revolutionary hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture that delivers 4x higher throughput and slashes inference costs by 60%, with major companies like ServiceNow, Oracle, and Zoom already integrating the technology across manufacturing, cybersecurity, and software development applications.
Google launches Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses Gemini AI to generate complete videos from simple text prompts, featuring 8-second clip creation, AI avatars, and collaborative editing capabilities now available to Workspace users.
Zoom AI shatters the previous record on Humanity's Last Exam with a groundbreaking 48.1% score, beating Google's benchmark through revolutionary federated AI technology that combines multiple language models, signaling a major leap toward advanced workplace automation capabilities.
Congress introduces bipartisan AI Talent Act creating specialized hiring teams and streamlined processes to help federal agencies compete with private companies for artificial intelligence experts, marking the first permanent federal statute designed to build government AI talent pipelines.
Matillion releases executive guide promising 95% reduction in manual data engineering work through AI-powered agents called Maia that work around the clock, focusing on platform consolidation and accelerating AI projects from concept to production.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2 in three versions (Instant, Thinking, Pro) after CEO Sam Altman's 'code red' memo about Google competition, featuring 400,000-token context window and outperforming human professionals on 70.9% of work tasks across 44 occupations despite 40% price increase.
Amazon announces massive $35 billion investment in India by 2030, promising to create 3.8 million jobs, boost exports to $80 billion, and provide AI education to 4 million students while supporting 15 million small businesses through AI-driven digitization initiatives.
Wiz releases comprehensive security guide as Model Context Protocol becomes the dominant standard for connecting AI language models to tools and data, addressing growing organizational concerns about securing LLM integrations while maintaining innovation capabilities.
Meta secretly develops 'Avocado' AI model to replace Llama while spending $14.3 billion to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, abandoning open-source strategy after Llama 4's failure and implementing grueling 70-hour workweeks to compete with OpenAI and Google by 2026.