Microsoft is considering shelving its 2030 renewable energy target as AI data center demand is projected to surge 600% — enough to power all of New England — a sign that Big Tech’s green pledges are buckling under the AI energy crisis.
Genesis AI, backed by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, launched GENE-26.5 — a foundation model paired with a human-scale robotic hand that learns skills directly from humans, achieving physical manipulation no prior robot has matched.
Workers displaced by AI suffer earnings 10 percentage points below non-displaced peers a full decade later, along with delayed homeownership and lower marriage rates — with white-collar workers uniquely exposed and underprotected.
A Goldman Sachs analysis finds AI is erasing a net 16,000 U.S. jobs per month, with Gen Z workers hit hardest — concentrated in exactly the routine white-collar roles AI automates most efficiently.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act’s AI deepfake provisions take effect this month, with Colorado’s broader AI accountability law following June 30 — creating a growing legal patchwork for developers even as the White House pushes to federalize AI rules.
DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, and Z.ai all shipped powerful open-weight coding models within 12 days, with Kimi K2.6 briefly topping the global coding benchmark above GPT-5.4 at a fraction of Western inference costs.
The Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic has signed a sweeping partnership with OpenAI to embed AI into every layer of its operations — from drug discovery to supply chains — with full deployment planned by end of 2026.
Tufts University researchers built a neuro-symbolic AI achieving a 95% success rate versus 34% for standard AI — while consuming only 1% of training energy and 5% of runtime energy, potentially solving AI’s massive power problem.
Mayo Clinic’s REDMOD system analyzed routine CT scans and flagged pancreatic cancer markers up to three years before any tumor was visible, detecting 73% of prediagnostic cases — nearly double the rate of human specialists.
Google released Gemma 4, a family of open-weight AI models available free under the Apache 2.0 license, with the 31B version ranking #3 globally on the Arena AI leaderboard and outperforming many closed models.