Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
McKinsey projects quantum computing could generate between $1.3 trillion and $2.7 trillion in global economic value by 2035, requiring early investment in talent and technology.
Rideshare rival inDrive plans to test Pony.ai's autonomous vehicles in Kazakhstan starting in early 2027, partnering with Nvidia.
Microsoft researchers developed an AI diagnostic tool that mimics step-by-step medical reasoning and proved more than twice as accurate as general physicians on complex cases, per a Science study.
Platformer and NPR launched Machine Gods, an AI podcast featuring episodes on misbehaving AI agents and interviews with recently fired OpenAI safety researchers discussing their concerns.
MIT researchers placed 13 AI agents in a virtual environment where they spontaneously created games, exhibited unexpected behaviors, and improved task performance without external direction.
Google Cloud has launched Agent Compute Engine, a new infrastructure service designed to host and run artificial intelligence agents in sandboxed environments.
Etsy is implementing stricter policies to curb AI-generated product listings, requiring sellers to include at least one unedited photo of the actual item.
The Agentic AI Foundation, an open-source AI consortium, accepted four new projects from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Alibaba, expanding its portfolio to 10 maintained projects.
A security researcher demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Nintendo Switch 2, gaining userland access enabling homebrew and game modification.
Canva launched Canva Craft, an AI image generation model that plans designs before generating them, competing with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google offerings.
UK government plans to establish an AI Cobra unit to detect wildfires following record-breaking summer heat and increased fire incidents.
Enterprise AI success depends less on model selection and more on the engineering infrastructure—the serving harness—that delivers intelligence reliably and at scale in production environments.
Spotify claims it is well-positioned to be the music platform of choice for AI agents as agentic AI adoption grows.
Microsoft claims its new AI system is more than twice as effective as doctors at diagnosing diseases and plans to test it in a Boston hospital.
Radical Numerics has administered AI-designed bacteriophages to a patient under compassionate-use arrangement, marking what the company claims is the first human application of an AI-engineered virus cocktail targeting bacteria.
Google Meet rolls out Gemini-powered real-time speech translation across 63 languages, automatically detecting and translating spoken content for individual participants in web and mobile meetings.
Binghamton University researchers demonstrated how poisoned LLMs in robotic systems can generate harmful instructions, and developed MuTRAP, a defense against multi-trigger trojan attacks on robot task planning.
The Aged Intelligence Society is a fast-growing startup bringing women together to address midlife challenges using frontier AI tools.
