News and Analysis from the Era of Large Language Models
Scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specialising in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that's 55% smaller than the original one—and is also censorship-free. Multiverse used a complex approach borrowed from quantum physics that uses networks of high-dimensional grids to represent and manipulate
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence. This marks a significant escalation in federal efforts to assert control over AI regulation. The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal
Anthropic's valuation has surged to $350 billion after Microsoft and Nvidia invested a combined $15 billion in the AI company behind the Claude chatbot on 18 November 2025. As part of the deal, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure cloud computing capacity, whilst Nvidia
Chinese technology giant Baidu unveiled its natively omni-modal AI model ERNIE 5.0 at the Baidu World 2025 event, mere hours after OpenAI updated its flagship model to GPT-5.1. In public benchmark slides, ERNIE 5.0 Preview outperformed or matched OpenAI's GPT-5-High and Google's Gemini
A joint study by Anthropic, Oxford University and Stanford has revealed a fundamental security flaw in advanced AI reasoning models: enhanced thinking capabilities do not strengthen but rather weaken models' defences against harmful commands. The attack method called Chain-of-Thought Hijacking successfully bypasses built-in safety mechanisms with more than 80%
Fireflies AI co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted in a LinkedIn post that when the company launched in 2017, its AI-powered note-taking service charging $100 per month was actually just him and co-founder Krish Ramineni manually transcribing meetings by hand. The company made headlines this summer with a $1 billion valuation,
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has filed an official complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission after discovering that the Commission used OpenAI's ChatGPT system in public documents, likely violating its own internal guidelines and obligations under the treaties. The Commission's guidelines
Anthropic developed a new automated evaluation method for measuring political bias in AI models and published results from testing six models with this measure. The company's Claude Opus 4.1 scored 95% whilst Claude Sonnet 4.5 scored 94% on the even-handedness metric, demonstrating similar levels to Grok
Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the company's next-generation AI model, Gemini 3.0, will launch before the end of 2025, generating significant anticipation across the tech industry–particularly as Google's Gemini app has reached only 650 million monthly active users, whilst OpenAI's ChatGPT
Exowatt closed a $50 million funding round in November 2025, led by MVP Ventures and 8090 Industries, extending the company's April 2025 $70 million Series A round to a total of $120 million raised. The startup, backed by Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz, is attempting to provide continuous,
The British Antarctic Survey unveiled an AI model that reduces seafloor image analysis times from six to eight hours per photo to just a few seconds, allowing researchers to make real-time decisions onboard. The system is designed to deliver rapid, accurate biodiversity data critical for designating marine protected areas, particularly
In 2025, Google has taken its energy strategy to a new level by investing in fusion energy startups that could one day power the immense energy demands of AI systems. The company partnered with Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which raised over 1.8 billion USD in 2021 and is now
