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Meta’s 2025: a year of AI assistants, power-hungry data centres and smart glasses
How refugees helped Microsoft use AI to map one of the world’s largest camps
Why governments want AI agents that act like trusted teammates, not chatbots
TIME crowns the power players behind AI’s breakout year
The ex-Splunk founders betting AI can run your systems better than humans
SoftBank goes all-in on OpenAI, scrambling to pull together $22.5bn
Google takes scraper to court, escalating the fight over who owns the web
The AI reckoning: Anthropic's Dario Amodei on the $50bn gamble, job losses, and why democracy must win the race
Alphabet’s $4.75bn Intersect deal shows AI race is now a power and concrete problem
OpenAI hardens ChatGPT Atlas browser agent after uncovering new prompt-injection attacks
US lab turns to AI and virtual reality to probe the biology of human memory
Scale launches benchmark to test how AI reasons about moral grey areas
Wondershare adds AI Mate video assistant to Filmora
Google rolls out Nano Banana Pro image model across Gemini, Search and Workspace
Liquid Reply joins Linux Foundation–backed Agentic AI Foundation
2026 Is the Year AI Stops Getting a Free Pass
Deepgram recounts a transformative year for voice AI
Bill Gurley: Here's how the AI bubble can also be a wave
Mo Gawdat says artificial intelligence is already rewriting the rules, most people have not noticed
Samsung to integrate Google Photos into AI TV lineup, with Memories launching in March
Google rolls out Gemini 3 Flash and expands AI features across apps in December update
Nadella looks beyond the AI hype cycle as industry turns to delivery in 2026
Solve Intelligence raises $40m Series B as profitability and usage accelerate
AI search and zero-click: what changes for publishers, and what still works
AI model evaluation: how benchmarks work, and why they often mislead
Roborock signs multi-year global partnership with Real Madrid
Pinterest users say “AI slop” is breaking the platform’s promise of real inspiration
India puts pressure on X over Grok after complaints about obscene AI content
Open-source AI: benefits, risks, and how to assess projects responsibly
AI and misinformation: how falsehoods spread, and what actually reduces harm
AI translation and speech tools: accuracy, bias, and when to trust them
The economics of AI: why inference costs matter more than flashy demos
SwitchBot demonstrates Smart Home 2.0 domestic robots suite
NVIDIA unveils Rubin platform and open models at CES
Intel unveils Core Ultra Series 3
NVIDIA's Drive automation debuts in Mercedes‑Benz CLA
AMD launches Ryzen AI Embedded processors
Lucid, Nuro and Uber unveil global robotaxi
Elly raises $8 million to launch AI hiring platform designed to capture recruitment decisions as they form
Caterpillar showcases in-cab AI assistant for excavators at CES
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health
MyFitnessPal launches app in ChatGPT health experience
OpenAI rolls out healthcare AI suite as hospitals move from pilots to scale
Microsoft pushes agentic AI into retail as automation moves from pilots to execution
One in six people worldwide now use generative AI as adoption accelerates unevenly
AI agent cuts particle accelerator experiment setup time by 100x at Berkeley Lab
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Datavault AI expands IBM collaboration for edge AI
Allianz and Anthropic form responsible AI partnership
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