YouTube is expanding its likeness detection tool, first introduced in October, to millions of creators in the YouTube Partner Programme as AI-manipulated content becomes more prevalent. The tool uses creators' biometrics to help remove AI-generated videos that exploit their likeness, but experts have warned that it also allows Google
Approximately three in ten US teenagers use AI chatbots every day, with 16% engaging several times daily or almost constantly, according to a Pew Research Centre survey of 1,458 teens aged 13 to 17 conducted from 25 September to 9 October 2025. Overall, 64% of teens report using AI
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 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
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
AI chatbots can influence voters in major elections more effectively than conventional campaigning and advertising, according to a study published on December 4th, 2025, in Nature. The authors tested AI's conversational capabilities in the context of three real-word elections: the 2024 American presidential election, the 2025 Polish presidential
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
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
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 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
Artificial intelligence could widen inequality between countries by increasing divides in economic performance, capabilities, and governance systems, according to a United Nations Development Programme report titled The Next Great Divergence: Why AI May Widen Inequality Between Countries, released on 2 December 2025. Whilst AI opens important avenues for development, countries
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
