The European Commission's Strategic Foresight Report, published on 9 September 2025, places the concept of Resilience 2.0 at its core, aiming to prepare Europe for rapid changes, with particular emphasis on AI-driven labour market shocks. The dramatic acceleration of technological development is well illustrated by European Commission
Nvidia is developing a new AI chip based on its cutting-edge Blackwell architecture specifically for the Chinese market that significantly outperforms the currently authorized H20 model, Nvidia said on August 19, 2025. The chip, codenamed B30A, would deliver approximately half the performance of the company's most advanced modell,
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 29 July 2025 found that leading large language models, including those powering ChatGPT, display significant bias favouring AI-generated content over human creations. Researchers from Charles University (Czech Republic) tested OpenAI's GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and Meta&
Anthropic announced on August 15, 2025, that its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models have been equipped with a new capability to autonomously terminate conversations in rare and extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. The company describes this as an experimental “model welfare” initiative – introduced not
Character.AI, once a billion-dollar startup promising to bring personalized superintelligence to everyone, has implemented a significant strategic shift. Karandeep Anand, appointed as the company's CEO in June 2025, announced that the firm has abandoned its founders' Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas' aspirations to develop
Spain-based Multiverse Computing unveiled two extremely small yet high-performing AI models on August 14, 2025, which they humorously categorised into a Model Zoo family because they're comparable in size to a fly's and chicken's brain. The company's SuperFly model contains just 94
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated at a press dinner in San Francisco on August 15, 2025, that the company would already be profitable from running AI models if they didn't have to pay for training new ones. Altman discussed in detail the period following GPT-5's
Algorithmic management (AM) has become a key research focus in the sociology of work, especially concerning platform work, but is increasingly spreading to traditional workplaces. A recent study by Csaba Makó, Miklós Illéssy, József Pap, Éva Farkas and László Komlósi, published in the Journal of Labor and Society under the
One of the world's largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, is confronting a serious challenge as AI increasingly demonstrates the ability to perform traditional consulting tasks faster and at lower cost. Kate Smaje, a senior partner leading McKinsey's AI initiatives, acknowledged to The Wall Street Journal
In August 2025, OpenAI released the GPT-5 language model, which the company described as a significant leap in intelligence, but a substantial group of users expressed disappointment and preferred the earlier GPT-4o version. The negative feedback was so strong that Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, eventually yielded to the
President Trump declared on 23 July 2025 at a Washington AI summit that requiring royalties for copyrighted works used in AI development is practically unfeasible and would disadvantage the United States against China. Speaking at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium, Trump advocated for a common sense approach allowing unfettered AI development,
The Pentagon has signed a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy the Grok chatbot across government agencies. The agreement is part of "Grok for Government", a programme enabling the technology's use across federal, local, and national security organisations. The contract aligns
