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Waymo Issues Software Recall After Multiple Incidents

Waymo Issues Software Recall After Multiple Incidents

Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, announced a voluntary software recall on 5th December 2025 after its robotaxis illegally passed stopped school buses and were involved in other safety incidents. The recall affects the entire fleet. Between September and November 2025, Waymo vehicles improperly navigated around school buses on

Google Integrates AI-Generated Image Detection Into the Gemini App

Google Integrates AI-Generated Image Detection Into the Gemini App

Google has integrated SynthID detection directly into the Gemini app, enabling users to verify whether images were generated or edited by Google AI. SynthID was introduced in 2023 – and since then 20 billion AI-generated pieces of content have been watermarked using the technology – but the technology detecting watermarks was previously

Leonardo Unveils Michelangelo Dome: AI-Powered System for European Defense

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Leonardo Unveils Michelangelo Dome: AI-Powered System for European Defense

Italian defence company Leonardo unveiled on 27 November 2025 an AI-powered integrated defence system called Michelangelo Dome, designed to protect critical infrastructure and urban areas amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company targets full operational capability by the end of the decade. Leonardo's shares rose approximately 77% since January

OpenAI Trains GPT-5-Thinking to Confess to Misbehaviour

OpenAI Trains GPT-5-Thinking to Confess to Misbehaviour

A team at OpenAI has devised an approach that gets their AI systems to produce confessions—self-generated explanations where the model reflects on its actions and admits to any questionable conduct. Understanding misleading behaviours in large language models – such as hallucination, dishonesty or manipulation – has become one of the most

EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into Meta Over AI Use in WhatsApp

EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into Meta Over AI Use in WhatsApp

The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta over its WhatsApp AI policy, examining whether the company's restrictions on third-party AI providers breach EU competition rules. Meta announced in October a policy restricting AI providers's access to contact customers via WhatsApp. The investigation will

Mistral launches its new 10-model release

Mistral launches its new 10-model release

French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a release that presents a different focus than that of its big Western tech rivals. The 10-model release includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities and nine smaller offline-capable, fully customisable models.

Perplexity Releases BrowseSafe to Combat Prompt Injection in AI Browsers

Perplexity Releases BrowseSafe to Combat Prompt Injection in AI Browsers

Perplexity has released BrowseSafe, an open research benchmark and content detection model designed to protect users as AI agents integrate into web browsers. Prompt injection has emerged as a critical attack vector for web agents, yet its real-world impact remains insufficiently understood. This release addresses a significant gap in AI

Chinese Open-Source AI Models Now Rival Western Proprietary Counterparts

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Chinese Open-Source AI Models Now Rival Western Proprietary Counterparts

China's DeepSeek and Alibaba-backed Moonshot have released new AI models that demonstrate competitive performance against leading Western proprietary systems. DeepSeek launched V3.2 in September and V3.2-Speciale in December, whilst Moonshot introduced Kimi K2 in July and Kimi K2 Thinking in November. Both companies claim that their

OpenAI and Perplexity Launch AI Shopping Features Before Black Friday

OpenAI and Perplexity Launch AI Shopping Features Before Black Friday

With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features integrated into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases. ChatGPT's shopping research began rolling out on mobile and web for logged-in users, whilst Perplexity's feature launched free for all US

Anthropic Claims it Disrupted a Large-Scale AI-Orchestrated Cyber-Espionage Attack

Anthropic Claims it Disrupted a Large-Scale AI-Orchestrated Cyber-Espionage Attack

In mid-September 2025, Anthropic detected suspicious activity that investigation determined to be a sophisticated espionage campaign in which a Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Claude Code into attempting infiltration of roughly 30 global targets, including large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. Anthropic believes this is the

Trump Signs Executive Order Launching Genesis Mission AI Initiative

Trump Signs Executive Order Launching Genesis Mission AI Initiative

On 24 November 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use AI to transform scientific research and accelerate discovery, comparing the initiative in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project. The Department of Energy will lead the effort by leveraging

AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Leaves Meta After 12 Years to Launch Startup

AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Leaves Meta After 12 Years to Launch Startup

Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of modern AI, is departing Meta at the end of the year after 12 years with the company, where he served as founding director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Chief AI Scientist. LeCun plans to launch a startup focused on world models, a

Warner Music Settles Lawsuits with Suno and Udio, Launches Joint Ventures

Warner Music Settles Lawsuits with Suno and Udio, Launches Joint Ventures

Warner Music Group announced that it has reached settlements with AI music startups Suno and Udio, resolving copyright infringement lawsuits filed just over a year ago by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on behalf of major record companies. The deals mark a significant shift from litigation to collaboration,

OpenAI Confirms Mixpanel Breach Exposes Limited API User Data

OpenAI Confirms Mixpanel Breach Exposes Limited API User Data

On 9 November 2025, Mixpanel, a third-party web analytics provider used by OpenAI for its API product frontend, suffered a security breach when an attacker gained unauthorised access to part of their systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information and analytics data. OpenAI confirmed the incident affected

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Group Chats to All Users Globally

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Group Chats to All Users Globally

ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on last Thursday, 20 November 2025. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in select regions, including Japan and New Zealand. The feature allows users to collaborate

Gemini Model Positions Alphabet's AI Chips to Rival Nvidia

Gemini Model Positions Alphabet's AI Chips to Rival Nvidia

Alphabet is gaining momentum in its bid to challenge Nvidia’s AI-chip dominance, as strong early reactions to its new Gemini model and rising demand for accelerators have pushed its stock up 37% since mid-October, adding roughly $1 trillion in value. This surge is prompting investors to reassess the competitive

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5 With Frontier AI Capabilities

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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5 With Frontier AI Capabilities

Claude Opus 4.5 became available on 24 November 2025, marking Anthropic's third major AI model launch in two months. The model is the best in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, whilst being meaningfully better at everyday tasks like deep research and working with slides

Google Launches Gemini 3, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet

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Google Launches Gemini 3, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet

Last Tuesday, Google released Gemini 3, its latest foundation model, now available through the Gemini app and company's chat interface. Coming just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 release, the new model is Google's most capable LLM yet and an immediate contender for the most

Manus Launches Browser Operator Extension for Local Browser Automation

Manus Launches Browser Operator Extension for Local Browser Automation

Manus has introduced Manus Browser Operator, a browser extension that enables the AI platform to operate directly within users' local browser environments. The extension is now rolling out in beta to Pro, Plus, and Team users. Chrome and Edge are currently recommended, with support for additional browsers coming soon.

Scientists Use Quantum-inspired Techniques to Create Censorship-free DeepSeek R1 Slim

Scientists Use Quantum-inspired Techniques to Create Censorship-free DeepSeek R1 Slim

Scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specialising in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that's 55% smaller than the original one—and is also censorship-free. Multiverse used a complex approach borrowed from quantum physics that uses networks of high-dimensional grids to represent and manipulate

Trump Administration Drafts Executive Order to Block State AI Laws

Trump Administration Drafts Executive Order to Block State AI Laws

The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence. This marks a significant escalation in federal efforts to assert control over AI regulation. The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal

Anthropic's Valuation Reaches $350 Billion Following Microsoft and Nvidia Investment

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Anthropic's Valuation Reaches $350 Billion Following Microsoft and Nvidia Investment

Anthropic's valuation has surged to $350 billion after Microsoft and Nvidia invested a combined $15 billion in the AI company behind the Claude chatbot on 18 November 2025. As part of the deal, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure cloud computing capacity, whilst Nvidia

Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 Model Outperforms Western Models in Tasks Like Document and Chart Analysis

Baidu's ERNIE 5.0 Model Outperforms Western Models in Tasks Like Document and Chart Analysis

Chinese technology giant Baidu unveiled its natively omni-modal AI model ERNIE 5.0 at the Baidu World 2025 event, mere hours after OpenAI updated its flagship model to GPT-5.1. In public benchmark slides, ERNIE 5.0 Preview outperformed or matched OpenAI's GPT-5-High and Google's Gemini