Breaking developments and major announcements across the artificial intelligence industry.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told the World Economic Forum that scaling LLMs alone will not produce scientific breakthroughs, put AGI by 2030 at roughly 50 percent, and said China trails by about six months.
Reports say OpenAI is preparing AI earbuds designed with Jony Ive's team, built on a Samsung 2nm chip and targeted for a September 2026 launch, though the company has not confirmed details.
The Guinness-certified smallest mini PC packs 80GB of memory and 1TB of storage, runs large language models locally and heads to Kickstarter in February from $1,399.
At CES 2026 the Nvidia chief predicted human-like robots this year, while roboticists point to hands, actuators and dexterity as the hard problems still unsolved.
From a wood-paneled sleep-sensing hub to an ultrasonic kitchen knife and e-paper smartwatches, CES 2026 showed AI moving into the background of everyday objects.
Musk's January 4 reply to Midjourney founder David Holz drew enthusiasm and skepticism in equal measure, as critics pointed to AI's limits in the physical world.
Reports say OpenAI's first consumer hardware, codenamed Gumdrop, will be built by Foxconn rather than Chinese supplier Luxshare, with a launch targeted for 2026.
EngineAI's T800 walked a beat with Shenzhen police and a Unitree G1 danced at IIT Bombay's Techfest in December, as Chinese humanoids move out of the lab.
Google DeepMind's feature-length film about the lab's pursuit of AGI and the AlphaFold breakthrough drew 200 million views in four weeks after its free YouTube release.
Hyundai and Boston Dynamics plan the first public showing of the new Atlas, LG brings a two-armed home robot and Nvidia's Jensen Huang opens the show on January 5.
Surge AI's Edwin Chen and Mercor's three 22-year-old co-founders lead a wave of new AI fortunes in a year when AI startups took roughly $202 billion in venture capital.
Reporting by Fortune and an MIT study of the Reddit community My Boyfriend Is AI describe a growing trend of AI companionship, with ChatGPT the most common partner.
A Deutsche Welle report on seven undeciphered writing systems shows where pattern-finding software runs out of road: too little text and no bilingual key.
YouTube shut two fake-trailer channels, OpenAI blocked Sora clips of Martin Luther King Jr., and New York now requires heirs' consent for digital replicas of the dead.
OpenAI has launched an in-product app directory for ChatGPT and opened submissions to developers building on its Apps SDK, turning the chatbot into a platform.
Google released Gemini 3 Flash on December 17, replacing Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default in its app and AI Mode, with frontier-level benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
OpenAI's new image model generates pictures up to four times faster, cuts API prices by about 20 percent and arrives with a dedicated Images section inside ChatGPT.
Speaking at the Axios AI+ Summit, the Google DeepMind chief predicted that models uniting text, images, video, audio, 3D and robotics will define the next year of AI.
