A federal judge has ruled that Character.AI chatbots do not currently enjoy First Amendment protections in the United States. On May 21, 2025, Judge Anne Conway rejected Character Technologies' defense in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 14-year-old boy's suicide, allowing Florida mother Megan Garcia'
French H Company released three new agentic AI models on June 3, 2025: Runner H public beta, Holo-1 visual model, and Tester H developer tool. Runner H is an autonomous AI agent capable of executing complex tasks and integrating various tools with minimal human intervention. According to MarkTechPost data, the
Anthropic introduced a custom set of AI models for US national security customers on June 5, 2025, which are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of security operations. The "Claude Gov" models were built based on direct government feedback to address real-world operational needs while undergoing
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into research environments has fundamentally transformed how scholars approach knowledge creation, data analysis, and academic writing. As these powerful technologies become increasingly sophisticated and accessible, they offer unprecedented opportunities for enhancing research productivity and enabling novel discoveries. However, their deployment simultaneously introduces complex
Amazon has announced a $10 billion investment in North Carolina, one of the company's largest investments in the state to date, aimed at expanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing capacity. The announcement came on June 4, 2025, and is expected to create at least 500 new high-skilled jobs
The European Commission launched a public consultation on June 6, 2025, seeking feedback on implementing the AI Act's regulations for high-risk Artificial Intelligence systems. The six-week consultation, running until July 18, 2025, aims to gather practical examples and clarify outstanding questions related to high-risk AI systems, with the
Reddit filed a lawsuit on 4 June 2025 against Anthropic, alleging the AI startup unlawfully used the platform's data to train its Claude chatbot without a proper licensing agreement. This marks the first time a Big Tech company has legally challenged an AI model provider over its training
Chinese startup DeepSeek announced DeepSeek-R1-0528 on 28 May 2025, delivering significant performance improvements in complex reasoning tasks and achieving near-parity capabilities with paid models OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. The update increased accuracy on the AIME 2025 test from 70% to 87.5%, whilst improving coding performance
Persona-based approaches contextualise AI responses within specific roles, expertise domains, or cognitive frameworks, thereby improving both relevance and quality of generated outputs (Kong et al. 2024). These techniques encompass mega prompts providing extensive contextual information, expert prompts assigning specific professional roles, and advanced reasoning frameworks such as Tree of Thoughts
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, co-founded by former top Google AI scientists, unveiled the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) on May 12, 2025. The CTM is the first artificial neural network that uses neuron synchronisation as its core reasoning mechanism, enabling AI to "think" through problems step-by-step. This represents a significant
OpenAI announced on May 8, 2025, its first "connector" for ChatGPT deep research, bringing GitHub integration to the popular AI assistant. The new feature lets developers connect their code repositories directly to ChatGPT, enabling the AI to sift through codebases and engineering documentation to generate comprehensive, cited research
On 23rd May 2025, Perplexity officially launched Perplexity Labs, an early-access environment specifically developed for business users that enables them to create customised AI solutions with their own organisational data. The system is built on a proprietary 100 billion parameter language model called Perplexity Labs LLM, which offers functionality significantly
