The Great AI Tug-of-War: Apple Loses Another Star to Meta In a fresh blow to Apple’s ambitious AI roadmap, another top executive has jumped ship — this time to Meta. Ke Yang, who was recently leading Apple’s “Answers, Knowledge & Information” team (the powerhouse behind the upcoming, smarter version of Siri), has reportedly left to […]
Intel Powers Ahead with Panther Lake: A New Era of 18A Innovation Intel has unveiled its next-generation processor, Panther Lake, the first to utilize the company’s groundbreaking 18A semiconductor technology. Built at Intel’s newly established Fab 52 facility in Arizona, this processor represents a pivotal leap in performance and efficiency, setting the stage for Intel’s […]
DevDay 2025: OpenAI’s Biggest Stage Yet OpenAI’s third DevDay lands Monday at Fort Mason, San Francisco, promising its “biggest event yet” with announcements, live demos, and a one-hour opening keynote from Sam Altman (10:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 p.m. PKT). Rumors swirl around an AI-powered browser, progress on the Jony Ive–collab hardware device, and possible […]
xAI’s Big Shift: Lays Off 500 Data Annotators to Boost Specialist AI Teams Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has laid off around 500 workers from its data annotation team, the largest division responsible for labeling and contextualizing data to train its Grok chatbot. The affected employees, primarily generalist AI tutors, were notified via email on […]
Roblox Levels Up with Short-Form Videos, AI Creator Tools, and Enhanced Earnings Roblox has unveiled “Roblox Moments,” a TikTok-style short-form video feed for sharing gameplay clips, currently in beta for users aged 13 and up. Players can capture, edit, and share 30-second clips with music and descriptions while enjoying a community feed to like and […]
Reliance Powers India’s AI Revolution Reliance Industries, led by Mukesh Ambani, has launched Reliance Intelligence—a new subsidiary focused on building massive AI-ready data centers and rolling out advanced cloud infrastructure across India. In close partnership with Google Cloud, Reliance will establish an AI-focused cloud region in Gujarat to accelerate innovation and transformation for businesses in […]
xAI Breaks the Mold: Musk Open-Sources Grok 2.5 and Promises More In a bold move shaking up the AI landscape, Elon Musk’s company xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5—the same large language model that powered its chatbot throughout 2024. This marks a significant step toward transparency in AI, offering full model weights to developers and researchers. […]
ChatGPT Mobile App Hits $2 Billion Milestone, Revolutionizing the AI Market ChatGPT’s mobile app has hit a major milestone, generating over $2 billion in revenue since its launch in May 2023. The app, which has captured a significant share of the AI chatbot market, has outpaced competitors by a wide margin. In just the first […]
GPT-5 Lands: Smarter, Faster, but Still Finding Its Footing GPT-5 has arrived, promising sharper reasoning, faster responses, and richer multimodal skills like handling text, images, and audio with ease. OpenAI says it can now “think” more deeply when needed, switching between quick answers and in-depth analysis depending on the question. The update also boosts coding, […]
Meta Appoints Shengjia Zhao to Lead AI Superintelligence Efforts Meta has named Shengjia Zhao as the Chief Scientist of its AI Superintelligence unit, marking a significant move in the company’s race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence. Zhao, an AI researcher renowned for his work in machine learning and probabilistic modeling, will spearhead Meta’s efforts to […]