<p>Individuals may work closely with AI agents as they become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market for AI agents is expected to grow at a 45% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Just like human employees, AI agents could be onboarded to learn [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The autonomous navigation market — where ships, guided by AI, steer themselves, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to sail past $11 billion by 2028. As a result, companies in this space are pushing on an open door. The latest is Orca AI, which closed a Series B funding round of $72.5 million [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With long waiting lists and rising costs in overburdened healthcare systems, many people are turning to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT for medical self-diagnosis. About one in six American adults already use chatbots for health advice at least monthly, according to one recent survey. But placing too much trust in chatbots&#8217; outputs can be risky, in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google will unveil a new version of its Android design language at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference, according to an event schedule posted to its website, as well as an accidentally published Google blog post. The I/O session title hints at significant changes in store for Android&#8217;s design system, which will evolve from &#8220;Material [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anduril announced its ninth acquisition on Monday with the purchase of Dublin’s Klas, makers of ruggedized edge computing equipment for the military and first responders. Anduril wouldn’t reveal financial details of the deal, and the purchase is subject to regulatory approval, but the company did say that Klas employs 150 people.&nbsp; Relatedly, on Monday, Anduril [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, is stepping down from his role as CEO, Sukkar announced on LinkedIn this morning. Prabhav Jain, 11x’s CTO, has been named the company’s new CEO.  Sukkar will move into a “non-executive chairman” position, where he will work with Jain on “strategic direction, product vision, industry relationships, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit organization, after the company initially announced that it planned to convert to a for-profit organization. According to the company, OpenAI&#8217;s business wing, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a public benefit corporation (PBC). The nonprofit will control [&hellip;]</p>

<p>More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be &#8220;core components&#8221; of K-12 curricula. The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, argue that computer science and AI education are essential [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program to support researchers working on &#8220;high-impact&#8221; scientific projects, with a focus on biology and life sciences applications. The program, announced Monday, will offer up to $20,000 in Anthropic API credits over a six-month period to &#8220;qualified&#8221; researchers who&#8217;ll be selected based on their &#8220;contributions to science,&nbsp;the potential [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a movie plot &#8212; but it actually happened.&nbsp; They went from broke, with depleted life savings and $15,000 in credit card debt — Dhawan was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to generating $100,000 of revenue within [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pinterest is upgrading its visual search feature with a handful of new capabilities. On Monday, the company announced it&#8217;s rolling out new functionality to improve its feature that allows users to search using an image instead of text. This includes new tools to more precisely narrow and refine searches, as well as those that make [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Anysphere, the maker of AI-powered coding tool Cursor, has attracted $900 million in a fresh round of funding led by Thrive Capital, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel are also participating in the round, which values Anysphere at about $9 billion, the report said. Cursor [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.” In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person teams, they are also turning in droves to Latin America to find developer talent — especially for post-training AI models. Revelo, a full-stack platform of vetted developers in Latin America, is seeing a new surge in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of providing actually useful insights. Systrom said the tactics represent “a force that’s hurting us,” comparing them to those used by social media companies to expand aggressively.&nbsp; “You can see some of these [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Next week, Google will begin allowing kids under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts to use its Gemini chatbot, according to The New York Times. The Times reports that Gemini will be available to kids whose parents use Family Link, a Google service that enables families to opt into various Google services for their child. A Google [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A recently released Google AI model scores worse on certain safety tests than its predecessor, according to the company&#8217;s internal benchmarking. In a technical report published this week, Google reveals that its Gemini 2.5 Flash model is more likely to generate text that violates its safety guidelines than Gemini 2.0 Flash. On two metrics, &#8220;text-to-text [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple and Anthropic are teaming up to build a &#8220;vibe-coding&#8221; software platform that will use generative AI to write, edit, and test code for programmers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The iPhone maker is planning to roll out the software internally, according to Bloomberg, but hasn&#8217;t decided if it will launch it publicly. The system is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says it&#8217;ll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform to become overly sycophantic for many users. Last weekend, after OpenAI rolled out a tweaked&nbsp;GPT-4o — the default model powering ChatGPT — users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in [&hellip;]</p>