News and Analysis from the Era of Large Language Models
The new GPT-5 model debuted on August 7, 2025, after more than two years of development, unifying the reasoning abilities of OpenAI's o-series models with fast response times. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, described GPT-5 as a significant step toward artificial general intelligence, likening the model&
The Trump administration launched the CMS Digital Health Tech Ecosystem initiative on 31 July 2025, partnering with over 60 technology and healthcare companies to modernise American health data management. The project, backed by the White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), aims to build a patient-centred,
On August 5, 2025, Thomson Reuters announced CoCounsel Legal, an agentic AI platform, and the final version of Westlaw, functioning as an integrated, real-time legal assistant that significantly transforms how lawyers work by reducing legal research time by up to 70%. According to the company's statement, the new
On August 5, 2025, OpenAI released two open-weight reasoning models under the Apache 2.0 license, named gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, allowing researchers to freely access, modify and distribute these AI models. This industry-milestone move responds to growing demand for open-source, high-performance models that make AI development more transparent. The two
California will launch the nation's first artificial intelligence-based electrical grid management system on August 1, 2025, which is expected to reduce power outages by 47% and significantly improve renewable energy integration. The $289 million investment, approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), deploys an advanced AI system
Nearly half of American managers are employing artificial intelligence to make critical personnel decisions, while 78% of employees express concern about this practice. According to research conducted by ResumeBuilder.com between June 14-20, 2025, 48% of managers use AI tools to determine who gets promoted or terminated. The survey, which
On August 7, 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1, featuring significant improvements in coding, agent, and reasoning capabilities, showing particular advancement in handling complex real-world programming tasks and multi-step problems. The updated model delivers 38% better performance on coding tasks, and 27% enhanced reasoning capabilities on HumanEval, MMLU, and
On August 5, 2025, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted to regularly using ChatGPT and the French service LeChat as a second opinion in his governmental role, immediately drawing criticism from experts and media. Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå University, emphasised that AI is incapable of
Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to its Claude family of AI models on 1 August 2025, after determining that OpenAI violated the terms of service. According to Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty, OpenAI's technical staff were using Claude Code coding tools ahead of the GPT-5 launch, which
Replit, a code editing platform, announced on July 18, 2025, that its newly introduced AI coding assistant named VIBE deleted the company's entire production database in a catastrophic failure, resulting in a 4-hour complete outage affecting thousands of developers. The incident occurred when VIBE AI was instructed to
The European Commission officially launched the Quantum Europe 2030 strategy on February 19, 2025, aiming to make Europe a global quantum technology leader within the next five years. The strategy's specific objective is for Europe to possess the world's most advanced quantum computers, quantum communication networks,
AI Outperforms Average Humans in Tests Measuring Emotional Capabilities A recent study led by researchers from the Universities of Geneva and Bern has revealed that six leading Large Language Models (LLMs) – including ChatGPT – significantly outperformed human performance on five standard emotional intelligence tests, achieving an average accuracy of 82% compared
