President Donald Trump announced on CNBC's Squawk Box on August 5, 2025, that his administration planned to impose tariffs on semiconductors and chips, as his administration also deliberated its approach to AI chip export restrictions. Subsequently, on August 15th, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump clarified
The Hungarian-developed SustainaBot AI platform achieved a significant breakthrough in green building design in July 2025, enabling designers to reduce building energy consumption by up to 42% and carbon dioxide emissions by 37% at the design stage. This cloud-based system analyses data from more than 5,000 previous green buildings
The American labour market is already being significantly influenced by generative AI, with young technology sector workers being the first casualties of this impact, according to Joseph Briggs, Senior Global Economist at Goldman Sachs. The unemployment rate for tech workers aged 20-30 has increased by 3 percentage points since early
Elon Musk announced on 19 July 2025 that his company, xAI, is developing a child-friendly AI application called Baby Grok. The app is designed specifically for users under the age of 13 and aims to provide safe, educational interactions for younger audiences. The announcement followed criticism of the Grok 2.
On July 15, 2025, the Trump administration announced America's AI Action Plan, a comprehensive national strategy that allocates $175 billion in investment over the next five years for AI research, development, and implementation, thereby ensuring the United States' technological superiority and national security while reducing over-regulation. The
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
