DuckDuckGo’s $9.99-per-month subscription now provides access to the most advanced AI models via its Duck.ai chatbot, including GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama Maverick. The free plan remains available, but only with older models such as GPT-4o mini or Claude 3.5 Haiku. The company stressed that
Elon Musk announced on the X platform that xAI has open-sourced the Grok 2.5 AI model, which was the company’s best-performing model last year, and released the model weights on Hugging Face. Musk also stated that the source code for Grok 3 would be made public in around
Alibaba announced its new Qwen3-Next model on September 10, 2025, significantly reshaping AI development direction. The model is exceptionally cost-effective, with training expenses just one-tenth of similarly performing models as it is estimated by experts to be under $500,000. The new solution provides more than ten times the speed
China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) issued a strict directive on September 17, 2025, ordering ByteDance and Alibaba to immediately terminate testing and cancel all existing orders for Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D chips. Prior to the regulatory decision, several companies had indicated plans to order tens of thousands
On 16 September 2025, the “Tech Prosperity Deal” was signed, marking a major influx of American technology investments into the United Kingdom. The agreement aims to strengthen bilateral cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy. Under the deal, Microsoft will build the UK’s largest AI supercomputer in
The German company DeepL, previously best known for its AI-based translation services, announced on 3 September 2025 the launch of DeepL Agent, an AI agent designed specifically for enterprise users. The newly introduced product is capable of automating repetitive, time-consuming corporate tasks and, by responding to natural language commands, can
On 11 September 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an investigation into the AI chatbot technologies of seven major companies to assess their potential negative impacts on children and teenagers. As part of the inquiry, the FTC sent formal requests for information to Alphabet (Google), OpenAI, Meta, xAI,
Chinese commerce giant Alibaba is developing a new artificial intelligence chip specifically designed for inferencing rather than training tasks. The new semiconductor, created by the company's cloud computing division, represents a significant advancement from its previous Hanguang 800 chip released in 2019. This reflects Chinese technology firms'
Microsoft will soon use Anthropic's AI technology for certain Office 365 applications, with an announcement planned in the coming weeks. This strategic shift indicates the software giant is diversifying its artificial intelligence portfolio after primarily relying on OpenAI technology for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint applications. Microsoft has
Scale AI announced a multimillion-dollar deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on March 5, 2025, for the AI agent program Thunderforge to be used in U.S. military planning and operations. The agreement is spearheaded by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which is the Pentagon's
The phenomenon of openwashing poses a serious threat to the AI industry, companies, and users alike, as more AI models falsely appear as open source. The Linux Foundation AI & Data Generative AI Commons recently created the Model Openness Framework, which defines three levels of openness to ensure genuine transparency.
Google released detailed data in August 2025 on the energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water usage of its Gemini AI system. Making this one of the most comprehensive disclosures from a tech giant like Google about AI's environmental impact. The company applied a comprehensive methodology when calculating consumption
