<p>Apple is introducing Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, for Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls. </p>

<p>Apple is launching what it calls the Foundation Models framework, which the company says will enable developers to tap into its AI models in an offline, on-device fashion.</p>

<p>A healthy chunk of corporate America has eagerly embraced AI, betting that the tech will bring heretofore unrealizable productivity gains. But adoption may be leveling off, according to transaction data from fintech company Ramp. </p>

<p>XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots. </p>

<p>Anthropic was experimenting with an AI-generated blog. TechCrunch profiled it. Then, Anthropic shut it down.</p>

<p>Qualcomm has acquired Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity, for around $2.4 billion.</p>

<p>ChatGPT&#8217;s natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.</p>

<p>Meta is discussing a multi-billion dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the deal value could reportedly exceed $10 billion, making it the largest external AI investment for the Facebook parent company and one of the largest funding events ever for a private company.</p>

<p>The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.&#8221;</p>

<p>In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order 14144 — signed days before the end of his presidency — was an attempt “to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.”</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review! Got lots for you today, including why Windsurf lost access to Claude, ChatGPT&#8217;s new features, WWDC 2025, Elon Musk&#8217;s fight with Donald Trump, and lots more. Have a great weekend! Duh: During an interview at TC Sessions: AI 2025, Anthropic&#8217;s co-founder had a perfectly reasonable explanation for why the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI.</p>

<p>Andrew &#8220;Boz&#8221; Bosworth, Meta&#8217;s CTO, says 2025 will be a pivotal year for Reality Labs, the company&#8217;s augmented and virtual reality unit. </p>

<p>AI startups are reaching growth stage much faster. That&#8217;s exciting, but also risky, because investors might pour millions into a company only to watch it be unseated in a few months. </p>

<p>Anthropic&#8217;s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit and that has the power to elect some of the company&#8217;s board of directors.</p>

<p>Figure AI has drawn attention for making claims that its AI-powered robots possess human-like fine motor skills and can manipulate objects with precision but hasn&#8217;t done a live demonstration of the humanoids.</p>

<p>EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it&#8217;s claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.</p>

<p>In an interview with TechCrunch after her SXSW appearance, Franklin said Lattice has built an AI HR agent that gives proactive insights and assists employees in one-on-one meetings. The company also has a platform where Lattice clients can create their own custom agents for their businesses. Franklin was adamant that humans must have oversight of any AI technology implemented by a company.</p>

<p>OpenAI&#8217;s head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she&#8217;s stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer.</p>

<p>AMD has acqui-hired the employees behind Untether AI.</p>