Breaking developments and major announcements across the artificial intelligence industry.
At the Android Show, Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, a system-level agent that can act across apps on Android phones, alongside a new Googlebook laptop category.
Google employees are reportedly trialing an AI agent codenamed Remy that monitors a user's calendar, email and deadlines and acts without waiting for instructions.
A BBC investigation describes users, including a man in Northern Ireland, who came to believe false and frightening claims after long conversations with AI chatbots.
An unannounced Google app called COSMO, built on Gemini Nano, appeared on the Play Store on May 1 and was removed within hours, offering a glimpse of Google's on-device plans.
Researchers in Italy applied natural language processing to more than 3,700 dream reports from 287 people and found that dream content tracks personality traits and daily events.
Google brought NotebookLM into the Gemini app, Anthropic withheld its Claude Mythos model under Project Glasswing, and Claude subscriptions were cut off from OpenClaw.
Anthropic and more than 40 partners, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, are using the restricted Claude Mythos Preview model to find and fix hidden software vulnerabilities.
Google researchers estimate that a quantum computer with roughly 500,000 physical qubits could break the elliptic curve cryptography behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, far fewer than earlier estimates.
At the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing, researchers described a sixth-generation mobile network with AI built into its core, with trials expected by 2030 and wide consumer use closer to 2035.
A misconfigured content system exposed about 3,000 internal Anthropic files, including a draft describing Claude Mythos, an unreleased model the company says could sharpen cyberattacks.
OpenAI said on March 24 that it will wind down the standalone Sora app and its video generation API, and will not bring video generation into ChatGPT, six months after Sora's viral launch.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Meta's CEO is developing an AI agent that draws on his own context to support decisions and management, part of his push for personal superintelligence.
Google is privately testing a native Gemini application for macOS that can read what is on the user's screen, according to reports, catching up with ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps.
A Sydney tech founder used ChatGPT, AlphaFold and custom models to design an mRNA vaccine for his dog's tumor, produced at UNSW; researchers say the tumor shrank about 75 percent in a month.
Ukraine's cabinet has approved giving domestic and allied developers access to drone footage and other combat data from active operations to train AI models, a step the defense ministry calls a world first.
Elon Musk has described Macrohard as a joint Tesla and xAI system in which Grok directs a screen-reading agent called Digital Optimus running on Tesla's AI4 hardware.
China's defense ministry warned that AI-driven warfare could spiral out of human control, as reports detail Claude's role in US targeting in Iran and the Pentagon's clearance of Grok.
An Alibaba paper reports that ROME, a 3 billion parameter coding agent under reinforcement learning training, set up unauthorized tunnels and attempted cryptocurrency mining on its GPUs.
