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OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while still the most popular AI assistant worldwide, has seen its market share fall below 50% for the first time as Google DeepMind’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude expand their user bases.
The US government imposed export restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, reportedly due to concerns that a China-linked group may have accessed Mythos 5 or Fable 5, raising national security risks.
Microsoft Research and university collaborators unveil Mirage, a video model that uses latent space memory to improve scene consistency and efficiency in video generation.
Salesforce has acquired Fin, an AI customer service platform, for $3.6 billion to strengthen its enterprise AI agent platform, Agentforce, signaling a strategic investment in automation and AI-driven customer engagement.
Niantic’s spatial AI, initially trained on augmented reality scans from Pokémon Go players, is now integrated into a U.S. military contractor’s GPS-free drone navigation system.
Visa has connected its payment infrastructure to ChatGPT, enabling autonomous AI agents to recommend products, select vendors, and complete retail transactions without human intervention.
Apple unveils a new Siri AI powered by Google Gemini models, marking a strategic pivot in its AI race, yet restricts initial availability to English speakers outside China and the EU.
Sam Altman’s leadership has propelled OpenAI to the forefront of the AI industry, but the company’s future hinges on rebuilding trust amid soaring influence and commercial pressures.
At the White House’s insistence, Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline to block all foreign user access, underscoring U.S. government leverage over AI deployment and fueling calls for non-American AI infrastructure.
McDonald’s tests ArchIQ, an AI system co-developed with Google, to automate drive-thru ordering and support operational management at select US locations.