Google launches 'Just Ask Anything' feature and deploys Gemini 3 AI globally as the company battles declining usage, with 37% of consumers now abandoning traditional search engines for AI tools instead.
OpenAI launches Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX editor designed specifically for scientists to streamline research paper writing, responding to 1.3 million researchers submitting over 8 million weekly science queries to ChatGPT.
OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin exposes the inner mechanics of Codex CLI, revealing how the AI coding agent uses an 'agentic loop' to orchestrate user interactions while struggling with quadratic prompt growth and performance bottlenecks from its stateless design.
Chinese AI giants including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and Baidu launch rapid-fire model releases using open-source and low-cost strategies to challenge OpenAI and Google's dominance, with DeepSeek seeing usage in Africa two to four times higher than other regions as companies prioritize ecosystem integration over benchmark performance.
Scientists increasingly embrace ChatGPT for research communications as weekly usage for advanced science topics surges 47% to 8.4 million messages from 1.3 million users, with researchers primarily leveraging AI for writing assistance rather than analysis across computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence fields.
Apple secretly develops AI chatbot codenamed Campos using Google's Gemini models to replace Siri while planning an AirTag-sized wearable for 2027, as Nex Computer announces a $549 smartphone running Android, Linux, and Windows, and Sony sells majority control of its TV business to TCL.
Chinese AI models DeepSeek R-1 and Alibaba's Qwen capture major US companies including Pinterest and Airbnb with 90% cost savings over American alternatives, as Stanford research shows Chinese models now match or exceed global competitors while China's open-source strategy challenges US proprietary approaches.
World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li, seeks $5 billion valuation amid fierce competition as tech giants pour billions into spatial intelligence technology, believing traditional language models need physical world understanding to achieve human-level artificial intelligence.
Google DeepMind acquires Hume AI's CEO Alan Cowen and seven engineers in a $100 million licensing deal to integrate emotional voice technology into its AI models, positioning the tech giant to compete directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT voice capabilities.
Leading AI models achieve only 24% accuracy on real white-collar tasks in new benchmark testing, with Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-5.2 struggling most when tracking information across multiple workplace tools like Slack and Google Drive in consulting, banking, and legal scenarios.