OpenAI launched Study Mode on July 29, 2025, a new ChatGPT feature that helps students develop critical thinking skills rather than simply providing answers to questions. Study Mode is already available to Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users, while ChatGPT Edu subscribers—primarily young people whose school administrators have purchased
The European Commission has secured widespread support from US Big Tech and other AI leaders for its General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool to ensure compliance with the EU's landmark AI Act. August 2, 2025, marked a new key date in the rollout of the EU&
Researchers at Anthropic demonstrated in a study published on August 1, 2025, that temporarily training large language models (LLMs) to behave maliciously can significantly enhance their safety and reliability. In the research titled Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models, scientists developed a technique where they deliberately
President Donald Trump announced on CNBC's Squawk Box on August 5, 2025, that his administration planned to impose tariffs on semiconductors and chips, as his administration also deliberated its approach to AI chip export restrictions. Subsequently, on August 15th, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump clarified
The Hungarian-developed SustainaBot AI platform achieved a significant breakthrough in green building design in July 2025, enabling designers to reduce building energy consumption by up to 42% and carbon dioxide emissions by 37% at the design stage. This cloud-based system analyses data from more than 5,000 previous green buildings
The American labour market is already being significantly influenced by generative AI, with young technology sector workers being the first casualties of this impact, according to Joseph Briggs, Senior Global Economist at Goldman Sachs. The unemployment rate for tech workers aged 20-30 has increased by 3 percentage points since early
Elon Musk announced on 19 July 2025 that his company, xAI, is developing a child-friendly AI application called Baby Grok. The app is designed specifically for users under the age of 13 and aims to provide safe, educational interactions for younger audiences. The announcement followed criticism of the Grok 2.
On July 15, 2025, the Trump administration announced America's AI Action Plan, a comprehensive national strategy that allocates $175 billion in investment over the next five years for AI research, development, and implementation, thereby ensuring the United States' technological superiority and national security while reducing over-regulation. The
The new GPT-5 model debuted on August 7, 2025, after more than two years of development, unifying the reasoning abilities of OpenAI's o-series models with fast response times. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, described GPT-5 as a significant step toward artificial general intelligence, likening the model&
The Trump administration launched the CMS Digital Health Tech Ecosystem initiative on 31 July 2025, partnering with over 60 technology and healthcare companies to modernise American health data management. The project, backed by the White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), aims to build a patient-centred,
On August 5, 2025, Thomson Reuters announced CoCounsel Legal, an agentic AI platform, and the final version of Westlaw, functioning as an integrated, real-time legal assistant that significantly transforms how lawyers work by reducing legal research time by up to 70%. According to the company's statement, the new
On August 5, 2025, OpenAI released two open-weight reasoning models under the Apache 2.0 license, named gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, allowing researchers to freely access, modify and distribute these AI models. This industry-milestone move responds to growing demand for open-source, high-performance models that make AI development more transparent. The two
