Pebble unveils the Index 01, a $75 smart ring that ditches health tracking for voice recording capabilities, featuring a physical button to capture notes and reminders with two-year battery life and no subscription fees required.
DOJ arrests two men for smuggling over $50 million worth of Nvidia AI chips to China through sophisticated networks, just as Trump announces plans to lift export restrictions while demanding a 25% government cut from future sales.
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.
The Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform powered by Google's Gemini AI, delivering secure artificial intelligence capabilities to all military personnel, contractors, and civilians worldwide as part of President Trump's push for AI technological superiority.
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals 1 in 5 U.S. teens are on TikTok or YouTube almost constantly, while AI chatbot use has surged to 64% among teens ages 13 to 17, with ChatGPT leading adoption at 59% and roughly 3 in 10 teens using chatbots daily.
Enterprise AI spending explodes to $37 billion in 2025—a staggering 220% increase—as Anthropic crushes OpenAI by capturing 40% market share compared to OpenAI's declining 27%, with AI startups dominating the $19 billion application market and coding emerging as the first $4 billion killer use case.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Beta for Slack, transforming the AI assistant into an autonomous coding partner that maintains codebase awareness, creates files, refactors code, runs tests, and provides progress updates directly within workplace messaging channels like a junior engineer.
OpenAI launches grocery shopping directly within ChatGPT through Instacart partnership, allowing users to brainstorm meals, create lists, and purchase items without leaving the chat interface while generating new revenue streams for the AI company.
OpenAI disables ChatGPT promotional messages after users revolt against irrelevant ads from companies like Peloton and Target interrupting conversations, as the AI giant struggles with massive projected losses of $115 billion through 2029 while only 5% of its 800 million users pay for service.