OpenAI and Thrive Holdings have deployed a self-improving Tax AI across 30+ accounting firms that processed 7,000 returns this season with 97% drafting accuracy, saving practitioners a third of their time while autonomously correcting its own mistakes through a continuous feedback loop.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shortens his AGI timeline to 2029-2030, citing rapid AI agent acceleration, as tech leaders race to predict when artificial general intelligence will reshape humanity.
Crawl4AI, the open-source AI web crawler boasting 66,700 GitHub stars, releases critical security hotfix v0.8.6 while also delivering a 5–10x speed boost, anti-bot detection, and Shadow DOM flattening for developers building RAG pipelines and AI agents.
Micrograd, a 150-line Python autograd engine with over 16,000 GitHub stars, brings PyTorch-like deep learning power to bare-bones code, making neural network backpropagation transparent and accessible at the most fundamental scalar level.
AI adoption is surging with 88% of organizations jumping in, but only 31% successfully scale it — and Slack is positioning itself as the solution by bridging the critical context gap that forces workers to constantly switch tools and manually feed AI the information it needs to deliver real value.
Defense AI video startup Airis Labs emerges from stealth after securing $31 million in a Series B funding round led by PSG Equity, signaling surging investor confidence in AI-driven military and defense technology solutions.
Tech CEOs are being accused of 'AI psychosis' as mass layoffs surge past 115,000 in 2026, with executives citing AI productivity gains that researchers say lack robust evidence, while experts warn AI agents won't reach human-level competence until 2029.
YouTube is rolling out automatic AI content detection this month, using internal signals to label videos with significant photorealistic AI use — ending sole reliance on creator self-disclosure and placing warnings prominently below videos and over Shorts.
OpenAI commits $250 million to help workers and the economy adapt to AI disruption, funding retraining programs, independent research, and long-term strategies to equitably distribute AI-generated wealth — a move that serves both public goodwill and the company's bottom line.
Cisco research exposes a critical AI safety flaw, revealing that every major frontier AI model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI fails multi-turn attack tests, with vulnerability rates rising up to 71% after just five conversational turns — exposing dangerous gaps in current industry safety benchmarks.