California legislature approves groundbreaking AI transparency bill SB 53, mandating large AI companies disclose safety protocols and whistleblower protections, awaiting Governor Newsom's signature after vetoing similar legislation last year.
Penske Media Corporation, owner of publications like The Hollywood Reporter and Rolling Stone, sues Google over alleged illegal use of its journalism for AI summaries, claiming reduced traffic in a potentially defining legal battle over AI and compensation.
Amazon unveils new Echo devices, Kindles, potentially a color Kindle Scribe, and other hardware innovations at its highly anticipated fall showcase in New York City, marking the first major launch under the leadership of Panos Panay, the company's Devices & Services head.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5-Codex, a powerful AI coding assistant with dynamic thinking capabilities, outperforming previous models in agentic coding and code refactoring, while dynamically allocating 'thinking' time from seconds to hours on coding tasks.
Meta unveils innovative Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, featuring displays, cameras, and wristband controls, poised to revolutionize the wearable technology landscape, set for official unveiling by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Connect keynote.
Defying antitrust penalties, Alphabet soars into the $3 trillion market cap club, joining tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple, with shares surging over 4% on a favorable ruling against lighter proposed US government penalties, marking a milestone around 20 years after Google's IPO and 10 years after Alphabet's creation.
France makes history, naming Clara Chappaz as the world's first AI minister, underscoring its determination to lead the global AI revolution and harness this transformative technology.
OpenAI intensifies robotics research, hiring experts in humanoid robots and algorithms, with job listings signaling focus on teleoperation and simulation for robot training, accelerating pursuit of artificial general intelligence.
Google Gemini rockets to #1 on the US App Store, adding 23 million users in two weeks thanks to its free Nano Banana image editing model allowing up to 100 daily image generations for non-subscribers and 1,000 for paid subscribers.
Two leading Japanese newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei, sue U.S. AI firm Perplexity AI for $14.9 million each over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted articles and spreading misinformation through its search engine.