In 2025, the AI landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, expanding into two critical new layers: the application layer and the data infrastructure layer.

As we settle into 2025, it’s clear that the future of software development is being shaped by trends that prioritize efficiency, intelligence and adaptability. And while adjusting to change isn’t always easy, these shifts can be exciting as long as we remain adaptable and learn to overcome potential challenges.

The result was Athenic AI, a company that uses AI to run data analytics for enterprises across all of their data sources. Zhao, the founder and CEO, said that Athenic’s products are designed to be a central nervous system of an organization’s databases that can be used by anyone in the company regardless of their coding or data experience.

Voice deepfakes are making it increasingly hard to figure out if there’s a real person or a bot on the other end of the line.

Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand. Last year, journalists with the environmental-news nonprofit Mongabay used a free AI tool, called Earth Index, to analyze satellite images and spot potential airstrip sites across vast stretches of rainforest.

Quantum computing has been on the horizon for what feels like decades. But with the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year or so, the quantum computing future could be upon us. In 2025, there are several stocks that could benefit. Some are big tech businesses; others are specialty start-ups focused on a particular niche.

David J. Ball and Alexandria Moriarty of Bracewell LLP discuss the use of generative AI in legal evidence, such as expert declarations, and the moves within the legal profession to develop rules on its use to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Weeks after Japan revealed details of a landmark energy plan partly designed to keep up with an expected AI surge, the shock rise of Chinese startup DeepSeek has upended conventional wisdom over the sector's future power demands.

Chinese startup DeepSeek has been taking the AI industry by storm with a new chatbot rivaling ChatGPT and Gemini that uses a fraction of the power, time, and money to train and operate.

By analyzing almost 10,000 pregnancies, researchers discovered previously unidentified combinations of risk factors linked to serious negative pregnancy outcomes, finding that there may be up to a tenfold difference in risk for infants who are currently treated identically under clinical guidelines.

This AI-driven approach goes beyond traditional voice analysis methods by detecting nuanced vocal characteristics imperceptible to the human ear. The machine learning models use complex algorithms to analyze numerical embeddings of audio segments, creating a more sophisticated assessment of a speaker's mental state.

Gemini in Google Sheets is about to become more powerful. The AI agent can now use Python code to generate insights and charts about your data.