Google is pouring significant resources into a complete user experience overhaul for its Gemini AI app. The move aims to address criticisms of the current interface and make the AI assistant more accessible and appealing.
Shopify suffered a major outage on one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. The login authentication failure left merchants unable to process sales, highlighting a critical single point of failure.
Apple’s head of artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, is stepping down from his role. The move comes after the company’s Apple Intelligence suite faced poor reviews and delays.
A Forbes analysis warns that AI and automation pose an existential threat to federal tax revenue, which relies heavily on taxing wages. With up to 83% of revenue from labor, widespread job displacement could trigger a fiscal disaster, especially for programs like Social Security.
AWS is finally making a move to simplify operations across rival clouds, starting with Google. The timing, amid regulatory pressure, is no coincidence. But will this open approach actually help customers, or just the giants themselves?
Despite earning up to $300,000 per episode for Stranger Things and a $10 million movie deal, Millie Bobby Brown maintains surprisingly frugal spending habits. The 21-year-old star still uses her parents’ Netflix account and prefers Target over luxury stores.
AI progress is shifting from just feeding models more data to building digital classrooms for them. These reinforcement learning environments let AI experiment and fail safely, which could unlock true problem-solving. It’s a multi-billion dollar bet from Silicon Valley labs.
AWS is launching a new, specialized AI Competency focused on agentic AI systems. The program offers partners significant benefits, including funding and priority access to AWS resources. According to AWS, projects with a competency partner launch 30 days faster on average.
The Freiburg-based AI startup, founded by the researchers behind Stable Diffusion, has secured massive new funding to scale its visual intelligence platform. Its models are already used by giants like Adobe, Canva, and Meta.
Jay Graber is the engineer behind Bluesky, the decentralized social platform she describes as “billionaire-proof.” The Tulsa-born CEO was tapped by Jack Dorsey in 2021 to lead the project before Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
