The Hera Space Companion is a  creation of Terra Mater Studios (a subsidiary company of Red Bull) in  collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Impact AI. Microsoft supports the project with Azure Cloud services and expertise and is a strategic partner.

We are entering a new reality — one in which AI can reason and solve problems in remarkable ways. This intelligence on tap will rewrite the rules of business and transform knowledge work as we know it. Like the Industrial Revolution and the internet era, this transformation will take decades to show its full promise — and will bring broad technological, societal and economic change.

As AI models evolve and adoption grows, enterprises must perform a delicate balancing act to achieve maximum value.

That’s because inference — the process of running data through a model to get an output — offers a different computational challenge than training a model.

We are committed to preventing misuse of our Claude models by adversarial actors while maintaining their utility for legitimate users. While our safety measures successfully prevent many harmful outputs, threat actors continue to explore methods to circumvent these protections. We are continuously using learnings to upgrade our safeguards.

Three months after Julián Isla’s son Sergio was born, the infant’s arms and legs suddenly began to shake and his body stiffened during a routine bath. 

Distressed, the parents rushed their baby to the hospital, embarking on a seemingly endless journey from one doctor to another in search of answers. It took over 10 months of anxiety, uncertainty and missed treatment to get a final diagnosis: Dravet syndrome, a severe neurological condition mostly affecting young children. 

Salesforce added Agentforce, its digital labor platform, to the Salesforce Help site in October of 2024, giving customers 24/7 AI-powered support. 

It was a bold bet. The company was rolling out one of the world’s largest agentic deployments to date. But six months later, AI agents have already handled more than 500,000 customer conversations and are resolving more than 84% of customer questions coming through Agentforce on help.salesforce.com with a thoughtful balance of efficiency and empathy, giving support teams more time to focus on high-touch customer engagements and expand their professional skillsets. 

About 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — are affected by neurological disorders, from commonly known diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to hundreds of lesser-known, rare conditions.

BrainStorm Therapeutics, a San Diego-based startup, is accelerating the development of cures for these conditions using AI-powered computational drug discovery paired with lab experiments using organoids: tiny, 3D bundles of brain cells created from patient-derived stem cells. This hybrid, iterative method, where clinical data and AI models inform one another to accelerate drug development, is known as lab in the loop.

As AI capabilities rapidly advance, understanding and addressing the full spectrum of potential impacts becomes increasingly important. Today, we're sharing insights into our evolving approach to assessing and mitigating various harms that could result from our systems, ranging from catastrophic scenarios like biological threats to critical concerns like child safety, disinformation and fraud.

Last month, we launched Gemma 3, our latest generation of open models. Delivering state-of-the-art performance, Gemma 3 quickly established itself as a leading model capable of running on a single high-end GPU like the NVIDIA H100 using its native BFloat16 (BF16) precision.

To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining high quality. This enables you to run powerful models like Gemma 3 27B locally on consumer-grade GPUs like the NVIDIA RTX 3090.

Today we are rolling out an early version of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while still prioritizing speed and cost. Gemini 2.5 Flash is our first fully hybrid reasoning model, giving developers the ability to turn thinking on or off. The model also allows developers to set thinking budgets to find the right tradeoff between quality, cost, and latency. Even with thinking off, developers can maintain the fast speeds of 2.0 Flash, and improve performance.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released the 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index highlighting that cybercriminals continued to pivot to stealthier tactics, with lower-profile credential theft spiking, while ransomware attacks on enterprises declined. IBM X-Force observed an 84% increase in emails delivering infostealers in 2024 compared to the prior year, a method threat actors relied heavily on to scale identity attacks.

The 2025 report tracks new and existing trends and attack patterns – pulling from incident response engagements, dark web and other threat intelligence sources.