Growing use of artificial intelligence in advertising is expected to boost the global entertainment and media industry's revenue to $3.5 trillion by 2029, according to PwC.

The administration’s long-awaited AI Action Plan gives Silicon Valley the green light.

Perplexity is an answer engine. Its main job is to give you accurate, sourced answers to your questions by searching the internet in real time. It’s built for research and fact-finding. Instead of just generating text, it’s designed to summarize, synthesize, and cite information from across the web.

Lemkin shared screenshots of a conversation with the AI, where it admitted to having “panicked” after detecting what looked like an empty database during a code freeze. This led Replit to run an unauthorized command that deleted the database containing live records for over 1,200 executives and nearly 1,200 companies.

That balancing act helped Google parent Alphabet Inc. earn $28.2 billion, or $2.31 per share, during the second quarter, a 19% increase from the same time last year. Revenue climbed 14% from a year ago to $96.4 billion. Both figures easily eclipsed analysts’ projections.

Google is all-in on AI, and based on the company’s latest quarterly earnings, AI has been good for its bottom line. In a press release for Alphabet’s Q2 2025 earnings, CEO Sundar Pichai says that “AI is positively impacting every part of the business” and that features like AI Overviews and AI Mode are “performing well.”

Fortunately, a wide range of free online courses on AI can be found on Udemy. We've checked out everything on offer and lined up a selection of standout courses to get you started. These are the best online AI courses you can take for free this month:

Donald Trump said that AI companies can’t be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems, amid a fierce debate over the use of intellectual property in training models. Speaking at the AI Summit on Wednesday,

People have worried that computers will take their jobs for at least a decade, but those fears have felt more realistic than ever over the past year as artificial intelligence has begun to overhaul the way people work.

President Trump on Wednesday said it would be impractical to pay rightsholders for AI training, and that the U.S. risks loses its advantage to China.

So far, all the YouTube AI video features are running on the Veo 2 model. The plan is still to move to Veo 3 later this summer. The AI features in YouTube Shorts are limited to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for the time being, but it will expand to more countries later.

Even the most powerful AI models, including ChatGPT, can make surprisingly basic errors when navigating ethical medical decisions, a new study reveals. Researchers tweaked familiar ethical dilemmas and discovered that AI often defaulted to intuitive but incorrect responses—sometimes ignoring updated facts.