Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

In 2025, we rebuilt the foundations of our AI program [and] over the coming months, we're going to start shipping our new models and products, and I expect us to steadily push the frontier over the course of the new year. Our world-class recommendation systems are already driving meaningful growth across our apps and ads business, but we think that the current systems are primitive compared to what will be possible soon. Today, our systems help people stay in touch with friends, understand the world, and find interesting and entertaining content.

"We're starting to see projects that used to take big teams now be accomplished by a single, very talented person," he said. Already this year, Meta has laid off several hundred workers mainly in its Reality Labs division, a part of the company that focuses on its "metaverse" ambitions, hardware products and AI initiatives. Zuckerberg said Meta is investing more across the company in AI tools that help employees like software engineers complete more work.

"Everyone's looking at all the software use and saying, 'How fast could I vibe code that?'" Taylor said. "'I wonder if it's the wrong question.' Whether someone can quickly vibe code an app in a web browser isn't "the most interesting question in software," he added. Instead, the software we use today is set to be replaced, and that's the real disruption, Taylor said.

Dynatrace has launched Dynatrace Intelligence, a system that combines deterministic AI and agentic AI. The platform is designed to help organizations transition from reactive to autonomous operations. Dynatrace Intelligence is the new agentic operations system that takes center stage at the observability company's Perform conference. It is built to observe and optimize dynamic AI workloads. The platform is designed to enable organizations to build more resilient applications and improve customer experiences.

"The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," co-directed by Oscar-winning film-maker Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, examines the promises and risks of AI through a personal lens, while bringing together some of the most influential voices shaping the global AI conversation. The film arrives at a moment when AI systems are being adopted faster than regulatory frameworks can keep pace, raising urgent questions about safety, governance and social impact.

YouTube appears to have taken down two of the most popular AI slop channels on its platform, along with several others. A report from Kapwing found that a channel called CuentosFacianantes no longer exists on the platform after amassing more than 5.9 million subscribers and over 1.2 billion total views. In a November 2025 report, Kapwing identified CuentosFacianantes (FascinatingTales) as the most-subscribed-to AI slop channel, which churned out "low-quality Dragon Ball-themed videos."

Google is launching a new "auto browse" feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf. The Gemini AI-powered capability is coming to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, and can do things like research hotel and flight costs, schedule appointments, fill out online forms, manage subscriptions, and more. The update marks another expansion for Gemini in Chrome, which initially served as an AI assistant that you can use to ask questions or summarize content on the webpage you're reading.

"The future will be, for sure, that you are not typing any data information into an SAP system. You can instead ask certain analytical questions with your voice. You can trigger operational task workflows. You can also make entries in the system with your voice-performance feedback, pipeline entries, etc. The technological capabilities are there, it really is now about the execution."

SoftBank is considering a new investment in OpenAI that could amount to $30 billion. This would further strengthen the Japanese technology conglomerate's position with one of the most influential AI developers. The plans were reported on by Bloomberg. The talks are still in the early stages, but they once again underscore the scale of founder Masayoshi Son's ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has a grave warning for fellow AI titans who dismiss the public's concerns about AI. "You can't just go around saying we're going to create all this abundance, a lot of it is going to go to us, and we're going to be trillionaires, and no one's going to complain about that," Amodei told Axios in an interview. "Look, you're going to get a mob coming for you if you don't do this in the right way."

But tiny 30-person startup Arcee AI disagrees. The company just released a truly and permanently open (Apache license) general-purpose, foundation model called Trinity, and Arcee claims that at 400B parameters, it is among the largest open-source foundation models ever trained and released by a U.S. company. Arcee says Trinity compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B, and Z.ai GLM-4.5, a high-performing open-source model from China's Tsinghua University, according to benchmark tests conducted using base models (very little post training).

Artificial intelligence has been a growth driver for the economy, and AI stocks have become massive winners over the past two years. Some of these stocks have been hotter than the others, and one of the biggest beneficiaries is NVIDIA ( Nasdaq: NVDA). The company made the most of the AI boom, and its shares have skyrocketed over the last two years.

Microsoft first acknowledged the issues at 0900 UTC (although the status page for the service stated it spotted the problem at 0922 UTC). At the time, Microsoft blamed the Azure OpenAI Service's availability issues on "an unhealthy backend dependent service, which led to cascading failures." The Windows behemoth noted problems when using modes such as GPT-5.2, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-4.1, and related APIs.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir's generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form, according to an inventory released Wednesday of all use cases the Department of Homeland Security had for AI in 2025. The "AI Enhanced ICE Tip Processing" service is intended to help ICE investigators "to more quickly identify and action tips" for urgent cases, as well as translate submissions not made in English, according to the inventory.

Between the lines: This isn't benevolence. It's customer acquisition. Mayors don't just buy "AI." They buy cloud, data modernization, cybersecurity, services, and long-term support - the tech stack underneath any serious deployment. In return, cities get tools that could fix long-standing challenges, Cris Turner, vice president of government affairs at Google told Axios last June when it first released its playbook.

When we announced the pre-release version of Lumen AI, our goal was ambitious: build a fully open, extensible framework for conversational data exploration that always remains transparent, inspectable, and composable, rather than opaque, closed and non-extensible. Today, with the full release of Lumen 1.0, that vision has been realized while also significantly evolving. This release represents a substantial re-architecture of both the UI and the core execution model, along with major improvements in robustness, extensibility, and real-world applicability.

The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues

It's a powerful tool for coders and one that may very well drive the price of software markedly lower as the technology advances. Of course, Anthropic's enterprise focus may very well be working in its favor as it looks to have one of the most capable AI coders on the market. With Claude Cowork, which was coded in large part by Claude Code, also gaining traction as 2026 becomes the big year for agentic AI, it certainly feels like the tech landscape is shifting