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
Up to 40% of time in the UK's public sector could be supported by generative AI technology according to a research report published in May 2024 by the Department for Transport (DfT), the Alan Turing Institute, and the Office for National Statistics. The study, which examined the impact
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced on the X social platform on June 10th, 2025, that the release of the company's first open-source AI model will be delayed until later this summer. The model, previously announced in April 2025, is being postponed due to safety concerns, highlighting the
In July 2025, Microsoft initiated negotiations with OpenAI for a new agreement that would ensure the company's continued access to OpenAI's technology even after the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), modifying the original 2019 contract which stipulated that Microsoft would lose its access rights if
Recent scientific studies suggest that AI tools significantly reduce brain activity and produce less original thinking. Last year's experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, involving more than fifty Boston University students, found that subjects using ChatGPT for essay writing showed substantially less brain activity than
Chinese AI company Moonshot AI unveiled its new Kimi K2 model on July 16, 2023, which outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4 in several key performance metrics while being completely free to use. The company, which has previously developed acclaimed AI models, has achieved a significant breakthrough for Chinese AI technology&
Meta's AI chatbot service recently raised serious privacy concerns after thousands of users discovered their supposedly private conversations appeared publicly in the app's Discover feed. The issue came to light in early June 2025, when users reported seeing their personal health questions, dating advice, and other
