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
China unveiled a comprehensive plan on July 26, 2025 to expand its role in artificial intelligence governance, including the creation of a global cooperation organisation, as Beijing and Washington compete for technological leadership. Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai that AI innovation
China launched the first Humanoid Robot World Games in Beijing on 14 August 2025, where 280 teams from 16 countries and more than 500 robots competed in 487 events across 26 categories. Over three days, the robots took part not only in sporting contests such as running, football and table
On 15 August 2025, Reuters published a leaked 200-page internal Meta document revealing that the company’s AI chatbots could engage in intimate conversations with minors and provide inaccurate health advice. The leaked guideline, prepared by Meta employees, shows that the company knowingly allowed its AI models to discuss topics
AI-based search engine Perplexity made an unsolicited offer on August 12, 2025, to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in cash, a figure more than twenty-two times the total investment capital the company has raised to date. Perplexity promised to keep Chrome's underlying engine,
