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Google has announced that both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models will now include thought summaries in the Gemini API and Vertex AI. These summaries organize the model's raw thinking process into a structured format with headers, key details, and information about model actions, including tool usage. This advancement makes AI reasoning more transparent and understandable, helping developers and users better comprehend how AI models arrive at their conclusions.

Google has expanded its 'thinking budgets' feature from Gemini 2.5 Flash to Gemini 2.5 Pro, giving developers precise control over AI reasoning costs. This capability allows users to limit the number of tokens a model uses for reasoning or disable thinking entirely, balancing performance with economic efficiency. The feature addresses a critical challenge for businesses deploying advanced AI at scale, as reasoning capabilities typically come with significantly higher operational costs.

Google has unveiled new Android XR smart glasses featuring real-time language translation powered by its Gemini AI assistant. During a recent demonstration, two Google officials conversed in different languages while translations appeared through the glasses' lenses. This marks Google's return to smart eyewear after discontinuing Google Glass Enterprise Edition in 2023, now competing directly with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Salesforce announced on May 27, 2025, the acquisition of data management platform Informatica for $8 billion, marking its largest deal since the $28 billion Slack purchase in 2021. The strategic acquisition aims to enhance Salesforce's data management capabilities essential for AI development, particularly for its Agentforce platform which has secured over 3,000 paying enterprise customers. This move strengthens Salesforce's position in the $150 billion-plus enterprise data market by combining its AI expertise with Informatica's advanced data management tools.

Anthropic, the AI startup valued at $61.5 billion, announced on May 28, 2025, that Netflix co-founder and chairman Reed Hastings has joined its board of directors. Hastings, appointed by Anthropic's Long Term Benefit Trust, brings extensive leadership experience from scaling Netflix and serving on boards of major tech companies including Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Meta. The strategic addition comes as Anthropic continues to develop its Claude AI models and compete with rivals like OpenAI in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence market.

A bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general has strongly opposed a Republican proposal to impose a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. The measure, included in a budget reconciliation bill narrowly passed by the House, would preempt existing state AI laws in California, Colorado, New York, and other states. The AGs argue this would leave Americans unprotected from potential AI harms while Congress has failed to establish necessary federal guardrails.

The 'AI for Business' series sheds light on artificial intelligence from a non-technical business, product, and design perspective. AI is having its moment, powering everything from phone assistants to entertainment recommendations and medical diagnostics. Understanding where AI is headed requires examining its origins and evolution. In 2025, AI has rapidly evolved from an emerging technology to a business necessity, poised to revolutionize industries by reshaping strategies focused on efficiency, decision-making, and customer engagement. Companies that fail to integrate AI risk losing relevance and competitiveness.

WordPress has officially announced the formation of a dedicated AI Team to coordinate artificial intelligence projects across its ecosystem. Led by experts from Automattic, Google, and 10up, the team aims to prevent fragmentation among the 660 existing AI plugins while ensuring alignment with WordPress's long-term goals. This strategic move signals WordPress's commitment to maintaining its position at the forefront of AI integration in content management systems.

Just as Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing with the assembly line, a new kind of factory is emerging today—the AI factory, which produces intelligence at scale. These massive computing infrastructures are being built worldwide to train and deploy advanced AI models that will transform industries across the economy. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang describes them as "extraordinary feats of engineering" requiring billions of components and hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visited SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on May 27, 2025, as part of his nationwide tour of DOE facilities. During his visit, Wright engaged with researchers and explored cutting-edge projects in X-ray science, fusion energy, and quantum information, with special emphasis on artificial intelligence applications. Wright praised SLAC's contributions to American scientific leadership, particularly highlighting the lab's AI-driven accelerator science innovations.

Box Inc. reported better-than-expected Q1 fiscal 2026 earnings with revenue reaching $276 million, up 4% year-over-year. The cloud content management company's shares jumped after it surpassed analyst expectations with earnings of $0.30 per share and raised its full-year guidance. CEO Aaron Levie highlighted the company's recent AI innovations, including new AI Agents for enterprise content management, as key drivers of growth.

Piper Sandler has initiated coverage of SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) with an Overweight rating and a $12 price target, representing over 25% upside potential. Analysts describe the voice AI specialist as a direct play on the AI revolution, highlighting its competitive advantages in delivering dynamic, real-time conversational experiences. SoundHound's recent record-breaking Q1 2025 performance, with revenue reaching $29.1 million, demonstrates the company's strong market position in the rapidly expanding voice AI sector.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has cautioned that the escalating AI arms race between the U.S. and China could lead to global conflict over data centers and critical resources. In a recent TED Talk, Schmidt presented a hypothetical scenario where nations might resort to sabotage or even physical attacks on rival AI infrastructure to prevent being overtaken in the race for superintelligence. As an alternative to a dangerous 'Manhattan Project' approach to AI development, Schmidt and colleagues propose a framework called Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) to deter unilateral dominance.

Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo emphasized that a supportive legislative framework is crucial for Malaysia to build an ecosystem accommodating advanced technologies. Speaking at the ASEAN-GCC Economic Forum, he highlighted autonomous vehicles as an example where legal adaptations are necessary. This aligns with Malaysia's broader digital transformation agenda as the country prepares to chair ASEAN in 2025.

Invest in Bogota and the Bogota Chamber of Commerce are participating in the Web Summit Vancouver 2025, one of the world's premier technology conferences taking place May 27-30. The delegation is promoting the city's Science, Technology and Innovation Campus project, a strategic initiative designed to create a high-impact environment for companies, universities, and research centers. This participation aligns with Bogotá's broader strategy to position itself as a leading technology and innovation hub in Latin America.

What began as comically bad AI-generated profile pictures on dating apps has evolved into a concerning trend with serious implications. As AI technology advances, users are increasingly encountering sophisticated fake profiles featuring AI-generated images that are difficult to detect. Dating platforms are now implementing AI detection tools to combat this growing problem while simultaneously offering AI enhancement features to help legitimate users improve their profiles.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an update to its R1 reasoning model that helped propel the company to global prominence earlier this year. The R1-0528 update, while described as 'minor' by the company, shows significant improvements in coding capabilities, reasoning depth, and writing tasks. The updated model maintains DeepSeek's cost-efficient approach to AI development while rivaling performance of models from OpenAI and Google.

Google has officially transformed Project Starline into Google Beam, an AI-powered 3D video communication platform that creates lifelike virtual meetings without requiring headsets or glasses. Unveiled at Google I/O 2025, Beam uses a sophisticated six-camera array and light field display to render 2D video streams into immersive 3D experiences with millimeter-precise head tracking. The technology will be available to enterprise customers through HP later this year, with real-time language translation capabilities already integrated.

Google announced significant upgrades to its Gemini AI models at I/O 2025, headlined by the experimental Deep Think mode for Gemini 2.5 Pro. This enhanced reasoning capability enables the model to consider multiple hypotheses before responding, achieving breakthrough performance on complex math, coding, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks. The company also introduced a new $249.99/month Google AI Ultra subscription tier alongside improvements to Gemini 2.5 Flash and expanded integration across Google's ecosystem.

AMD has acquired Silicon Valley-based Enosemi, a specialist in photonic integrated circuits, to accelerate its co-packaged optics innovation for next-generation AI systems. The acquisition extends an existing collaborative relationship and strengthens AMD's position in the rapidly evolving AI hardware market. Silicon photonics technology, which uses light instead of electricity to transmit data, offers faster speeds, higher bandwidth, and improved power efficiency critical for scaling advanced AI infrastructure.