Meta Ray-Ban Display and everything else unveiled at Meta Connect 2025

Meta unveiled new versions of its AI-powered smart glasses, as well as a gesture-indicating wristband.

Gen-Z Takes on a New Role at Work: AI Tutoring

A recent study found nearly two-thirds of Gen-Zers now voluntarily help older coworkers to use AI apps, increasing productivity across the workplace, and boosting their reputations at work.

Companies are choosing AI investment over hiring, big raises

It's not clear how much of the job market softness is due to AI-driven gains versus general economic weakness.

Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

The British renewable energy provider said that its Kraken platform had $500 million in committed annual revenue, spurring a spinoff that could result in a massive IPO.

Can AI sort out government corruption? Albania hopes so

Italy leads the EU with sweeping AI laws — prison for harmful deepfakes, workplace rules, and child protections

Italy has tough new AI rules and a €1 billion AI fund to protect and promote simultaneously.

AI Agents Are Coming For Your Buildings. Is Your Office Ready?

Intelligent automation has been in buildings for decades. Trane Technologies is now taking a different approach with the roll out of AI Control and ARIA, an AI agent for buildings.

Verizon Frontline Releases Study on Drones, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

Verizon Frontline's survey highlights a significant shift towards AI and drone integration in public safety, with nearly half of responders planning daily use within five years...

Securing The Pandemic Preparedness Engine

CEPI is creating a pandemic-busting AI assistant for scientists. Ensuring its biosecurity from the outset will be key to ensuring safe and

AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities

Bias-reflecting LLMs lead to inferior medical advice for female, Black, and Asian patients.

OpenAI to Spend $100 Billion on Backup Servers for AI Breakthroughs

When OpenAI in March released ChatGPT features that could turn photos into animated characters, a spike in usage forced the company to put temporary limits on the features. It wasn’t the first time this had happened. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told investors at a Goldman Sachs ...

Bridging fair-aware artificial intelligence and co-creation for equitable mental healthcare

Nature Reviews Psychology - Machine learning algorithms can increase the effectiveness of mental health interventions, but biased systems might exacerbate current disparities in case identification...

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners

As OpenAI’s plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent from Silicon Valley’s most successful device maker: Apple. In recent months, the startup behind ChatGPT has been raiding the ranks of Apple’s design, ...

A Chinese AI tool can manage chronic disease — could it revolutionize health care?

Nature - Artificial intelligence could reduce the strain that ageing populations put on medical systems.

World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

Nature - Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant strains of bacteria.

Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots

Grieving parents and online safety advocates at a congressional hearing called for new laws to regulate AI companion apps to protect the mental health of minors.

Figure AI partners with Brookfield to develop humanoid pre-training dataset

Brookfield, which manages over 500 million sq. ft. of office space and 160 million sq. ft. of logistics space, will provide real-world data.

TSMC, Amkor partner with venture capital firm on startup hub focused on ‘deep tech’

The Phoenix-based startup hub will focus on companies driving new innovations in chip manufacturing and artificial intelligence.

Chrome is getting 10 new AI features — these are the 3 I’m most excited about

Several are already available now

Operationalizing trust: A C-level framework for scaling genAI responsibly

Scaling AI isn’t just tech — it’s trust. a ‘trust loop’ keeps enterprises transparent, compliant, and future-ready.

Microsoft announces “world’s most powerful data center” in latest billion-dollar AI spending splurge

New Microsoft Wisconsin facility will begin operation soon

China’s Huawei co-develops DeepSeek model, improves censoring

Chinese tech giant Huawei has co-developed a safety-focused version of artificial intelligence model DeepSeek that it said is "nearly 100% successful" in preventing discussion of politically sensitive topics.

Figure secures $1B funding to scale humanoid robots

Figure secures $1B Series C funding to scale humanoid robots with AI platform Helix and BotQ manufacturing expansion.

Apple used AI to uncover new blood pressure notification feature in Watch

Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial intelligence rather than a blood pressure monitor.