A speeding vehicle crashes into stopped traffic near San Francisco's Union Square, killing one person and a dog after striking a Waymo autonomous car in the first fatal U.S. collision involving a truly driverless vehicle, though investigators do not blame the self-driving technology.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 with two variants - GPT-5.1 Instant for enhanced conversations and GPT-5.1 Thinking for adaptive reasoning - while introducing specialized mental health safety features targeting delusions, psychosis, and emotional dependency concerns.
Anthropic unveils massive $50 billion investment to build cutting-edge AI data centers in Texas and New York, partnering with Fluidstack to create nationwide infrastructure that will support America's rapidly growing artificial intelligence computing demands and foster collaboration between researchers and industry leaders.
Meta breaks ground on a massive $1 billion data center in Wisconsin, creating 1,100 jobs while donating $15 million for local energy relief and committing to restore 570 acres of wetlands in an environmentally-conscious expansion to support AI operations.
World Labs launches Marble AI platform that transforms text prompts, photos, and videos into persistent, downloadable 3D environments for gaming and VR industries, offering subscription plans from free to $95/month with unique AI-native editing tools that separate spatial structure from visual style.
World Labs unveils Marble AI, a groundbreaking commercial platform that transforms simple text prompts and photos into complete, downloadable 3D virtual worlds, with pricing starting free and reaching $95 monthly for premium features.
MIT researchers unveil SEAL, a groundbreaking technique that enables AI models to permanently learn new information by creating their own study sheets and updating internal weights, boosting accuracy by 15% on question-answering and over 50% on skill-learning tasks.
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable surges to nearly 8 million users and attracts Fortune 500 companies despite experiencing a 40% traffic drop since September, as the one-year-old company seeks a massive $5 billion valuation after previously raising $228 million.
Israeli AI startup Wonderful secures $100 million Series A funding to expand its customer service agents that resolve 80% of daily requests across voice, chat, and email, with plans to enter Germany, Austria, and Nordic markets in 2025.
AMD CEO Lisa Su projects 35% annual revenue growth over the next three to five years, targeting double-digit market share in Nvidia's AI chip dominance with 80% annual data center growth and a major OpenAI partnership launching in 2026.