The OECD's August 2025 analysis of AI openness reveals that traditional "open source" terminology does not fully capture the complexities specific to AI systems. The study published in August 2025 demonstrates that AI openness exists on a spectrum from fully closed systems with restricted access to
Musk announced Macrohard, a purely AI-based software company operating under xAI, on August 22, 2025, posing a direct challenge to Microsoft. The venture's name is a play on words that pokes fun at Microsoft, though Musk emphasized that the project is genuine and serious. The entrepreneur stated that
Albania made history in September 2025 by appointing Diella, the world's first artificial intelligence-generated minister, who will oversee public procurement to eliminate corruption. The announcement came during the presentation of Prime Minister Edi Rama's new cabinet, following his historic fourth mandate secured in the May 2025
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released its new 685-billion parameter V3.1 artificial intelligence model on August 19, 2025. This system directly challenges American AI giants, as the model uploaded to the Hugging Face platform achieved a 71.6% score on the Aider coding benchmark. This result surpasses Claude Opus 4&
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the Trump administration's plan on August 19, 2025. The government intends to convert federal funding pledged to Intel under the CHIPS Act into an equity stake. According to Bloomberg, the planned 10% stake would make the US government Intel's largest
The Australian arm of KPMG has developed a highly efficient agentic system using a 100-page prompt that generates tax advice documents in one day instead of two weeks. The consultancy firm's digital transformation accelerated significantly after ChatGPT's debut in late 2022, although initial experiments revealed security
NVIDIA researchers have presented compelling arguments for small language models (SLMs) being more suitable than large language models (LLMs) for powering autonomous task-performing AI systems. In their Arxiv study published in June 2025, the researchers explain that self-operating, task-oriented AI applications mostly perform repetitive, narrow-scope operations that don't
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
