ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on last Thursday, 20 November 2025. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in select regions, including Japan and New Zealand. The feature allows users to collaborate
Alphabet is gaining momentum in its bid to challenge Nvidia’s AI-chip dominance, as strong early reactions to its new Gemini model and rising demand for accelerators have pushed its stock up 37% since mid-October, adding roughly $1 trillion in value. This surge is prompting investors to reassess the competitive
Claude Opus 4.5 became available on 24 November 2025, marking Anthropic's third major AI model launch in two months. The model is the best in the world for coding, agents, and computer use, whilst being meaningfully better at everyday tasks like deep research and working with slides
Last Tuesday, Google released Gemini 3, its latest foundation model, now available through the Gemini app and company's chat interface. Coming just seven months after the Gemini 2.5 release, the new model is Google's most capable LLM yet and an immediate contender for the most
Manus has introduced Manus Browser Operator, a browser extension that enables the AI platform to operate directly within users' local browser environments. The extension is now rolling out in beta to Pro, Plus, and Team users. Chrome and Edge are currently recommended, with support for additional browsers coming soon.
Scientists at Multiverse Computing, a Spanish firm specialising in quantum-inspired AI techniques, created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a model that's 55% smaller than the original one—and is also censorship-free. Multiverse used a complex approach borrowed from quantum physics that uses networks of high-dimensional grids to represent and manipulate
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order that would direct the Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating artificial intelligence. This marks a significant escalation in federal efforts to assert control over AI regulation. The draft order comes after Republicans in Congress failed to pass a federal
Anthropic's valuation has surged to $350 billion after Microsoft and Nvidia invested a combined $15 billion in the AI company behind the Claude chatbot on 18 November 2025. As part of the deal, Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure cloud computing capacity, whilst Nvidia
Chinese technology giant Baidu unveiled its natively omni-modal AI model ERNIE 5.0 at the Baidu World 2025 event, mere hours after OpenAI updated its flagship model to GPT-5.1. In public benchmark slides, ERNIE 5.0 Preview outperformed or matched OpenAI's GPT-5-High and Google's Gemini
A joint study by Anthropic, Oxford University and Stanford has revealed a fundamental security flaw in advanced AI reasoning models: enhanced thinking capabilities do not strengthen but rather weaken models' defences against harmful commands. The attack method called Chain-of-Thought Hijacking successfully bypasses built-in safety mechanisms with more than 80%
Fireflies AI co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted in a LinkedIn post that when the company launched in 2017, its AI-powered note-taking service charging $100 per month was actually just him and co-founder Krish Ramineni manually transcribing meetings by hand. The company made headlines this summer with a $1 billion valuation,
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has filed an official complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission after discovering that the Commission used OpenAI's ChatGPT system in public documents, likely violating its own internal guidelines and obligations under the treaties. The Commission's guidelines
