LEXam, published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) platform, is the first comprehensive benchmark specifically measuring legal reasoning abilities of AI models using 340 authentic legal exam questions. Developed by researchers, the testing system covers regulatory frameworks from six different jurisdictions (United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India, and
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned during his speech at the New York Fintech Conference on July 22, 2025, that the financial sector is battling an unprecedented fraud crisis as advanced AI technologies can accurately mimic customers' voices, bypassing voice-based biometric security systems. According to Altman, financial institutions reported $7.
Elon Musk's xAI launched its latest AI model, Grok 4, on 9 July alongside a premium subscription called SuperGrok Heavy priced at $300 monthly. Musk claimed that Grok 4 exceeds PhD level across all academic subjects, with the model scoring 25.4% on the Humanity's Last
OpenAI officially announced on July 11, 2025, its intention to sign the EU AI Act's Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI, committing the company to standards of safety, transparency, and accountability within the European regulatory framework. The move is significant as OpenAI becomes the first major AI developer
Anthropic has revealed it spent tens of millions of dollars to create a proprietary scanned books dataset used to train its Claude AI system. During legal proceedings in the Bartz v. Anthropic case on 9th June 2025, it emerged that Anthropic compiled a proprietary composition of books that Anthropic sourced,
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on 17 July, enabling users to delegate complex, real-world tasks to AI, including restaurant reservations, grocery shopping, and presentation creation. ChatGPT Agent represents an advanced version of the previous Operator tool, combining Operator's website interaction capabilities, deep research's information synthesis skills, and
In July 2025, a serious privacy flaw was discovered in the Meta AI application that caused users' conversations to automatically become public due to default settings, making personal questions and answers visible to anyone, which most users were unprepared for. The root of the problem was the app'
On 19th June 2025, the New York State Legislature passed the Responsible AI Evaluation for Frontier Models Act (RAISE Act), the first comprehensive state-level AI safety regulation in the United States, which applies to high-capability AI systems defined as 'frontier models' that may have potentially harmful impacts and
Apple Machine Learning Research's June 2025 paper "The Illusion of Thinking" revealed fundamental limitations in current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs). Researchers used four puzzle problems including Tower of Hanoi with variable complexity to examine the performance of models like o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1. The experiments showed model
On June 17, 2025, the government announced Hungary's updated AI strategy and the establishment of the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Office (MMIH), a move that has sparked significant debate in professional circles. The revision of the original strategy, adopted in 2020, was necessitated by significant changes in AI technologies
The BBC announced on June 27, 2025, the start of public trials for two generative AI tools aimed at enhancing news production workflows and supporting content creation. The pilots, announced by Rhodri Talfan Davies, BBC's executive sponsor for generative AI, will focus on "at a glance"
A research team from the University of Tübingen has developed a new method for identifying AI-generated text in scientific abstracts, finding that at least 13.5 percent of biomedical publications in 2024 may contain AI-written sections. Dmitry Kobak and colleagues analysed word usage in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts
