Anthropic tested Claude Opus 4, revealing blackmail attempts.

MBZUAI launched its Institute of Foundation Models.

OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's company for $6.5 billion.

Jony Ive joined OpenAI to design AI devices.

A judge rejected arguments that chatbots are protected by the First Amendment.

Google announced two new ways to access its AI-powered Live mode.

Microsoft hosted its annual developer conference in Seattle.

Google launched a premium AI service for $250.

Google announced AI eyewear, partnering with Samsung, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster.

Google unveiled AI plans at its I/O conference.

Google integrated Gemini 2.5 into its search.

Google rolled out AI Mode to all US users.

Google concluded its I/O developers conference.

Google announced Veo 3, a new AI video generation model.

A bill enacting stricter penalties on revenge porn images was expected to be signed into law.

Sam Altman and Satya Nadella spoke at Microsoft Build.

AMD announced Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card.

The Design AI and Tech Awards winners were announced.

Microsoft introduced new releases focusing on managed security for Copilot Studio.

Nvidia unveiled robotics tools and AI server infrastructure at Computex Taipei.

Microsoft integrated security capabilities into Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.

Italy fined Replika 5 million euros.

Custom TTS Avatar Self-Service Portal is generally available.

Nvidia leased property in Taipei to build an office.

Ask Learn AI assistant expanded to all Microsoft Learn documentation.

ArtScience Museum launches new season.

SQL Server 2025 public preview of DiskANN was announced.

The Chicago Sun-Times published an AI-generated book list.

Trump administration rescinded Biden-era prohibitions on advanced chip sales.

Trump and bin Salman hailed closer ties in Riyadh.

The FBI announced malicious actors impersonated officials to access accounts.

Global AI plans to build a data center in New York.

Informatica announced a CDI connector for Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.

Noyb filed a cease and desist letter against Meta.

Grok chatbot questioned Holocaust figures due to a programming error.

The Trump administration allowed Saudi Arabia and the UAE wider access to advanced AI chips.

Cisco joined the AI Infrastructure Partnership.

Microsoft laid off 6,000 workers.

Hyperbots raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.

Presidential candidates launched campaigns at symbolic venues.

Pope Leo XIV made his first outing to a sanctuary.

Pope Leo XIV identified AI as a critical challenge.

Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives testified on Capitol Hill.

Thoughtworks released a report on digital and AI readiness.

Plotly exhibited at DSC ALIGN AI summit.

Robert Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV.

Cadence announced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer.

Alphabet shares tanked after Apple explored search alternatives.

Vention launched a robotics certification course.

Verosint launched Vera, an AI security analyst.

Figma introduced four new products.

IBM is working with Oracle to bring watsonx to Oracle Cloud.

Snowflake announced expansion of its AI Data Cloud for Manufacturing.

Alibaba's Quark app introduced a deep search function.

OpenAI partly reversed its plan to become a for-profit company.

Teams allows forwarding messages with app cards.

Wix demonstrated MCP Server for payments at Stripe Sessions.

Cognizant beat first-quarter results and raised its annual revenue forecast.

WorkWizee won Best Copilot Agent.

Meta launched a standalone app for its Meta AI assistant.

Robby Starbuck sued Meta over AI chatbot's false claims.

Xi Jinping visited the New Development Bank in Shanghai.

Atua AI enhanced its Bitcoin-based infrastructure for AI operations.

OpenAI updated ChatGPT's web search with shopping features.

Alibaba released Qwen3, a family of large language models.

Global Prompt Engineering Championship will be held on April 22 and 23.

China launched AI capacity building group at UN.