In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using some form of AI, up from 55% in 2023, according to Stanford’s AI Index. Stanford’s 2025 AI Index notes that the inference cost for running models at GPT‑3.5 level fell about 280× from late 2022 to late 2024, enabling cheaper deployment. The European Union’s AI Act entered into…
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Vertex AI is Google’s unified platform for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale, integrating data preparation, pipelines, MLOps, and model monitoring with AutoML. Gemini is Google’s multimodal foundation family for text, code, and images, with Gemini 2.5 “Flash” announced in 2025 as a smaller, cost-efficient variant, plus Lyria for music and Imagen…
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In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed on a General Motors assembly line. From 1966 to 1972, Stanford Research Institute’s Shakey became the first mobile robot to reason about its actions using AI. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced the first robot arm with six electromechanical axes. In 1981, IBM introduced a robotic arm controlled…
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AWS announced an additional $100 million investment into its Generative AI Innovation Center to expand AI engineering capabilities and partner programs. AWS launched the Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance to streamline AI projects from experimentation to production via a global network of system integrators. A built-in blue/green deployment feature for Amazon ECS was rolled out…
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Google will invest over $25 billion in U.S. AI-related data centers and infrastructure over the next two years, plus $3 billion to modernize two Pennsylvania hydropower plants to power AI data centers, under the AI Works for America initiative. Project Stargate, originally pitched as a $500 billion effort with $100 billion upfront, is being scaled…
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OpenAI’s latest experimental reasoning model achieved a gold medal performance at the International Math Olympiad by solving 5 of 6 problems under contest conditions. GPT-5 is reportedly on the horizon as a system of specialized models with a smart router, not a single monolith. Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, predicted AI could reach human‑level problem‑solving…
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The Pentagon’s Project Maven, now managed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, uses AI to identify objects in surveillance imagery and speeds target identification timelines from hours to minutes. In 2024, the U.S. tested Scylla AI at Blue Grass Army Depot, which autonomously detected intruders and flagged a guard in seconds, achieving over 96% accuracy distinguishing…
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent on July 18–19, 2025, a mode that lets the chatbot act on the user’s behalf using a virtual browser and plugins like Gmail and GitHub to perform multi-step tasks with user permission. AWS unveiled AgentCore at its NY Summit, a toolkit for enterprises to build and deploy custom AI agents…
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AWS unveiled Kiro AI in mid-July 2025 as a specification-driven agentic IDE, available in a free public preview on kiro.dev, and powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 (with Claude 3.7 as a fallback) while built on a VS Code (Code-OSS) core. Kiro converts plain English prompts into full project specs—requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md—before writing code,…
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Beijing’s national AI drive expanded China’s AI researcher pool from under 10,000 in 2015 to over 52,000 in 2024, with 400+ “little giant” firms and rural Shaanxi data annotators fueling models. Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba are embracing open-source LLMs to compete amid U.S. export controls, aiming to decentralize AI development. Nvidia CEO Jensen…
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