Google Photos’ 2025 Recap turns to Gemini to find your highlights

Amazon is offering its AI coding tool, Kiro, for free to startups for one year, aiming to attract founders who may already be using various AI coding tools. This initiative is part of Amazon's strategy to enhance its presence in the competitive AI landscape.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently hosting its major tech conference, re:Invent 2025, where it is unveiling significant advancements in AI services and computing technologies, including new AI models and partnerships with key players in the industry.

WordPress's experimental vibe-coding software, Telex, has been utilized to create real-world websites, demonstrating its practical application despite being in the experimental phase.

Venture capitalists (VCs) are intensifying their 'kingmaking' strategy, making substantial investments in early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) startups to establish market leaders. This approach aims to identify and support potential winners in the burgeoning AI sector, leveraging significant financial backing to shape the competitive landscape.

Kohler's smart toilet camera, marketed as 'end-to-end encrypted,' has been revealed to allow the company access to customers' data stored on its servers, including images of users' toilet bowls, which can be utilized for AI training.

A recent attempt by Republicans to ban state-level artificial intelligence (AI) regulations was removed from the defense bill due to bipartisan opposition, highlighting ongoing tensions between the tech industry and consumer protection advocates. This decision reflects a significant moment in the evolving landscape of AI governance in the United States.

Recent advancements in generative AI (gen AI) have sparked interest in their potential to provide personalized educational support, yet challenges remain in translating pedagogical insights into effective AI prompts. A new study proposes a set of seven educational benchmarks to enhance the pedagogical capabilities of AI systems like Gemini, aiming to bridge the gap between technology and effective teaching practices.

A systematic study has been conducted on the detection of identity-preserving AI-generated content (IP-AIGC) specifically for Indian and South-Asian faces. This research evaluates the performance of two advanced detectors, AIDE and Effort, using datasets created from FairFD and HAV-DF, and assesses their effectiveness across various metrics after fine-tuning.