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New research by the Pew Research Center reveals that nearly half of American adults (49%) now use AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT or Gemini, marking a significant increase from last year's 33%. Americans are using AI for various tasks, including researching information, handling work tasks, and entertainment. ChatGPT dominates the U.S. AI market, with 44% of respondents using the OpenAI chatbot. However, concerns about AI's impact on society and data security remain high, with 40% believing AI [...]

Apple has unveiled Xcode 27, a developer tool that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify the coding process. The new version of Xcode includes a Core AI framework that allows developers to use on-device AI models with ease, delivering strong performance through a modern Swift API. Xcode 27 also supports third-party AI models and enables developers to have conversations with AI agents, making it easier to create and edit code. This marks a significant shift in Apple's [...]

Elon Musk has announced that xAI's model, Grok, will be capable of creating full movies by the end of 2026. A trailer for Homer's The Odyssey, created using Grok Imagine Video 1.5, showcases the AI's rapid strides in video generation. The 2-minute-plus trailer features 36 consistent shots, realistic special effects, and emotional depth, demonstrating Grok's capabilities in scale, physics, and cinematic workflow. Musk believes Grok will be "watchable" by the end of 2026 and "really good" by

Google has released a major update for its Gemini app, introducing a new Neural Expressive user interface for Gemini Live. The revamped interface focuses on AI-generated content, displaying spoken words, images, and more on the screen as users interact with the chatbot. This upgrade enables new use cases, such as generating images and viewing the output immediately, and provides users with more control over the conversation, including the ability to copy, share, and export responses.

Loft Orbital's YAM-9 spacecraft successfully demonstrated the first publicly disclosed execution of a vision-language model in orbit. Aboard the spacecraft, Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 performed natural language queries, classified Earth imagery, and produced plain-English summaries without transmitting raw pixels to the ground. This achievement marks a significant shift in the value layer of Earth observation, moving from ground-based processing to onboard inference capabilities. The model, running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX graphics processing unit, utilized a [...]

Chinese firm Alibaba has unveiled its first embodied AI model family, the Qwen-Robot suite, which links large language models with real-world robotic actions. The suite comprises three models focused on navigation, manipulation, and world modeling for robots operating in physical environments. Developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Lab, the Qwen-Robot suite enables machines to perceive, reason, and interact with the real world, joining a growing global push to advance embodied AI beyond traditional chatbot applications. The models are currently [...]

The Big 6 AI companies are spending heavily on AI development, outpacing the potential bubble, with Amazon spending more on AI than its total earnings this year. The combined market value loss of $900 billion by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft is being erased by a 60% rise in spending, totaling $410 billion from last year. AI investment is keeping the US economy out of recession, but also leading to job losses, with companies like Amazon cutting jobs [...]

Insight Health has joined the AdvancedMD Marketplace, making its AI-powered clinical agents available to thousands of independent practices and multi-specialty groups. This partnership aims to reduce the administrative burden in healthcare by automating front-office and documentation workflows. The integration will provide AdvancedMD users with access to Insight Health's suite of clinical agents, streamlining tasks and improving efficiency. The move is significant as it brings advanced technology to a large number of healthcare providers, potentially improving patient care [...]