Amazon unveils Alexa+, a smarter, more conversational AI assistant powered by generative AI that can take action across services and devices, remembering user preferences and knowledge across platforms.
In a groundbreaking AI breakthrough, FragFold, an innovative system leveraging AlphaFold's machine learning capabilities, accurately predicts protein fragments that can inhibit target proteins, experimentally confirming over 50% of its predictions and unlocking new frontiers in drug discovery by enabling deeper insights into protein interactions.
Google unveiled an experimental AI 'co-scientist' system that synthesizes research, generates hypotheses, and suggests plans, leveraging large language models and techniques like literature search, with early users enthusiastic but uncertainty around true novelty.
Amid controversy, the US government plans to use an AI language model to analyze federal workers' weekly emails detailing their accomplishments, potentially determining if their jobs are essential, sparking backlash from unions and employees but earning praise from President Trump.
Major UK newspapers united in a bold blue cover protest against government proposals that could allow AI companies to exploit copyrighted works without permission or fair compensation, threatening the $152 billion creative industry.
Perplexity AI, a pioneering AI venture firm, has unveiled an ambitious $50 million fund to catalyze the burgeoning AI startup ecosystem, poised to serve as an anchor investor for promising pre-seed and seed-stage AI companies across the United States, with seasoned investors Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko at the …
Anthropic unveils Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid AI model excelling in coding, front-end web development, and complex tasks, along with Claude Code, a command line tool enabling developers to delegate engineering tasks to Claude, achieving state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks.
While AI promises productivity gains, skepticism lingers as most American workers rarely use it on the job, and few believe it will enhance their long-term prospects, despite those who have used AI chatbots finding them helpful for expediting tasks.
In a stunning $93M hacking scheme, Russian tech exec Vladislav Klyushin was arrested, convicted, and later swapped in a prisoner exchange after hacking financial firms for insider trading.
Microsoft doubles down on its staggering $80 billion investment as the tech giant forges ahead with AI innovation, strategically allocating resources to meet soaring customer demand across all regions amidst the AI boom.