US. Dept of Energy will be leading the Genesis Mission initiative to harness AI to advance the development of energy production capabilities, advancement of material science, and defence innovations, and other broad scientific endevours
Foxconn is strategically expanding its US manufacturing presence with a multibillion-dollar investment and a key partnership with OpenAI to innovate AI data center architecture, supporting large-scale infrastructure projects and reducing reliance on traditional consumer electronics assembly.
Gemini 3 represents a major step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) by combining state-of-the-art reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic abilities, enabling users to 'bring any idea to life' through learning, building, and planning tasks at scale.
On November 17, 2025, The New York Times reported that Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and former CEO, is taking on his first formal executive position since stepping down from Amazon in 2021 by serving as co-CEO of a new artificial intelligence startup named Project Prometheus.
Blue Origin conducted the second flight of its New Glenn rocket on November 13, 2025, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This marked the vehicle's first mission carrying customer payloads, including NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) spacecraft—two identical probes named Blue and Gold, built by Rocket Lab with instruments from the University of California, Berkeley.
Google DeepMind's AI hurricane model represents a breakthrough in weather forecasting by delivering faster, more accurate predictions than traditional methods, as demonstrated in the 2025 season, enabling bolder and timely warnings that could mitigate disaster impacts.
Alphabet's Google has submitted a proposal to the European Commission to modify its online advertising technology (adtech) practices, aiming to resolve antitrust issues without divesting any assets. This follows a 2.95 billion euro ($3.4 billion) fine in September for favoring its own services, particularly its ad exchange AdX, which disadvantaged competitors, advertisers, and publishers.
McKinsey's annual survey on AI adoption, based on responses from over 1,500 global executives, reveals that AI usage has expanded, with 88% of organizations employing it in at least one function, up from 78% the previous year. However, scaling remains limited, as nearly two-thirds have not extended AI beyond experimentation or pilots, and only about one-third have achieved organization-wide implementation. AI agents are emerging, with 62% experimenting and 23% scaling in specific areas like IT and knowledge management, though adoption is highest in sectors such as technology, media, telecommunications, and healthcare.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist and a recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for advancements in deep neural networks, is reportedly planning to leave the company in the coming months to establish his own startup. He is in early discussions to raise funding for the venture, which is expected to focus on continuing his research into world models.
Snap Inc. and Perplexity revealed a partnership on November 5, 2025, to integrate Perplexity’s AI-powered answer engine into Snapchat, starting early 2026. The feature will appear in Snapchat’s Chat interface, enabling users to ask questions and receive conversational, source-cited answers from verifiable data.
On November 6, 2025, Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, marked a seismic shift: investors approved a compensation package for their mercurial CEO that could net him nearly $1 trillion over the next decade - if he delivers on audacious milestones that would catapult Tesla into the stratosphere of global dominance. This isn't just a payday; it's a manifesto for moonshot ambition, a bet on artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous vehicles that could either forge the world's first trillionaire or expose the fragility of winner-takes-all economics. As Tesla's market cap hovers around $1.5 trillion, the package - structured as up to 423.7 million shares - dangles the keys to Musk's 25% voting control, but only if he turns the company into an $8.5 trillion behemoth.