On 18 September 2025, at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai, Huawei introduced the SuperPoD Interconnect, capable of linking up to 15,000 Ascend AI cards. The announcement came one day after China barred domestic firms from purchasing Nvidia RTX Pro 600D servers and other hardware, a move framed as
On 25 September 2025, OpenAI introduced GDPval, measuring AI models on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations in nine sectors that each contribute over 5% to U.S. GDP. The aim is to move from synthetic exams to authentic work deliverables (e.g., legal briefs, engineering blueprints, nursing care
On 1 October 2025, Meta announced that it may begin using data from users’ AI chatbot conversations to deliver targeted advertising. The company stated that interactions with its AI assistants—similar to ChatGPT—will be anonymised and analysed to build more precise advertising profiles. This initiative is strategically important as
According to the World Economic Forum’s September 2025 briefing, synthetic data is set to reshape the global data ecosystem. Real-world datasets are often incomplete, biased, or restricted by privacy regulations, making artificially generated synthetic data an increasingly vital alternative. The report highlights its potential to fill critical data gaps,
In October, Elon Musk announced Grokipedia, a new online encyclopedia designed to directly compete with Wikipedia, which has operated since 2001. The project will be integrated into the ecosystems of xAI and X (formerly Twitter), with the aim of combining community-driven knowledge sharing with generative AI technologies. The announcement is
On 29 September 2025, Anthropic introduced Claude Sonnet 4.5, describing it as the most powerful AI coding model ever released. The company highlighted its outstanding capabilities in code generation, debugging, and complex software development tasks. Claude Sonnet 4.5 showed exceptional performance in languages such as Python, Java, and
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a landmark strategic partnership aimed at creating one of the world’s largest AI infrastructures. As part of the deal, the two companies will develop 10 gigawatts of data centre capacity, a massive leap in scale that could redefine the availability and performance of generative
The European Commission announced on 13 October 2025 the launch of the AI Factory Antenna network in seven Member States—Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, and Slovakia—and in partner countries including Iceland, Moldova, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, North Macedonia, and Serbia. The Antenna sites will collaborate closely with
A study published in Cell Reports Physical Science in September 2025 reports that a generative AI model screened over 1 million simulated crystal structures and identified porous oxide materials as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage. The research, led by Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, focused particularly on
On 25 September 2025, Clarifai unveiled its new “Reasoning Engine,” which the company claims boosts inference and reasoning performance on GPUs by up to tenfold while significantly reducing costs. According to TechCrunch, the system is specifically designed for “agentic AI” applications—systems that require autonomous decision-making and multi-step task execution.
On 22 September 2025, multiple reports indicated that OpenAI is working on its own hardware devices, including a smart speaker, smart glasses, a voice recorder, and a wearable “pin,” as an extension of the ChatGPT ecosystem. The initiative aims to integrate artificial intelligence more directly into everyday life, from voice-based
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab published Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence, which found that in AI-exposed occupations, employment of 22–25-year-olds fell by 13%, even as overall employment continued to grow. The study highlights that AI’s primary impact is
