TRIBE analyzes video, audio, and dialogue from movies, accurately predicting which of the viewer’s brain regions will activate without any brain scanning.

The AI correctly predicted over half brain activity patterns across 1,000 brain regions after training on subjects who watched 80 hours of TV and movies.

It works best in brain areas where sight, sound, and language merge, outperforming single-sense models by 30%.

Meta's system also showed particular accuracy in frontal brain regions that control attention, decision-making, and emotional responses to content.

The AI designs both the drug molecule and how it will attach to diseased proteins in one step, rather than creating and then testing in multiple iterations.

BInD created drugs that target only cancer-causing protein mutations while leaving healthy versions alone, showing precision medicine capabilities.

Unlike older AI systems that could only optimize for one criterion at a time, BInD ensures drugs are safe, stable, and possible to manufacture all at once.

The model also learns from its successes, reusing winning strategies with a recycling technique to design better drugs without starting from scratch.

Perplexity pitched the acquisition directly to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, positioning itself as an independent operator that could satisfy DOJ remedies.

The bid exceeds Perplexity's own $18B valuation by nearly 2x, but the company claims venture investors have committed to fully fund the transaction.

Chrome commands over 60% of the global browser market with 3.5B users, with Perplexity recently launching its own AI-first competitor called ‘Comet’.

Federal Judge Amit Mehta will decide this month whether a forced sale is necessary after ruling Google illegally monopolized search markets last year.

The desktop robot will feature a motorized arm that controls a display to track users and lock onto speakers, infused with an AI-upgraded Siri.

Bloomberg said Apple is planning a personality-driven character for the new Siri called “Bubbles,” comparing it to ‘Clippy’ from the original Microsoft Office.

A smart display is also set to arrive mid-2026, running a new ‘Charismatic’ OS for controlling home apps, music, web browsing, and more via voice or touch.

New AI-powered security cameras with months-long battery life will automate household tasks like dimming lights or playing personalized music.

Engineers are rebuilding Siri from scratch with AI models under the codename ‘Linwood’, while testing Anthropic's Claude as a backup codenamed ‘Glenwood’.

Users can switch between AI models from OpenAI and Google for the wearable’s assistant, activated via a “Hey Vive” voice command.

Built-in real-time photo-based translation supports 13 languages through an embedded camera, with all data processed locally for privacy.

Other features include a 12 MP ultra-wide camera, extended battery life, video recording capabilities, music playback, and more.

The wearable will currently only be available in Taiwan, with a starting price of $520 compared to Meta’s $300 Ray-Bans.

xAI rolled out its next-gen Grok 4 for free to all users worldwide for a limited time, also announcing a new ‘long press’ feature to turn images into video with Grok Imagine.

Google and NASA are partnering to develop an AI medical assistant, dubbed ‘Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant’, with the ability to diagnose and treat astronauts during deep-space missions where Earth communication is delayed.

Microsoft released ‘Copilot 3D’, a new AI tool that converts images into usable 3D models in a single click for integrations with games, animation, VR/AR, and more.

T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telecom officially launched its AI phone and tablet in European markets, which come integrated with Perplexity’s assistant.

Alibaba’s Qwen3 models are now capable of processing up to 1M tokens in a single operation — equivalent to analyzing about 1,500 pages of text simultaneously.

Pika Labs introduced a new video model rolling out to its social app, with the ability to generate HD-quality outputs with lip-sync and audio in six seconds or less.

MIT researchers just used AI to design two new antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria, potentially opening a new front against infections that cause millions of deaths annually.

Elon Musk announced on X that xAI is taking legal action against Apple over pushing OpenAI’s products in the App Store and suppressing rivals like Grok, with the conversation spiraling after Sam Altman accused X of similar tactics.

OpenAI announced that its reasoning model achieved a gold-level score at the 2025 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), placing 6th against humans and first among AI in the world’s top pre-college programming competition.

Mistral released ‘Mistral Medium 3.1’, an upgraded model that shows improvements in overall performance and creative writing.

Google announced the rollout of several new features for Gemini, including temporary chats and memory to reference previous conversations and learn user preferences.

Higgsfield AI launched ‘Draw-to-Video’, allowing users to sketch text directions, shapes, and visual instructions on images to create a tailored video output.

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton proposed training “maternal instincts” towards humans into AI as a potential solution to preventing the tech from wiping out humanity.