On August 5, 2025, the South Korean Ministry of Education announced the cancellation of its previously ambitious AI textbook programme, which had originally launched in 2023 with 300 billion won (approximately $230 million) in government funding. The programme, which was part of President Yoon Suk Yeol's K-Digital initiative,
On August 13, 2025, Anthropic unveiled Claude AI's two new educational styles: Explanatory and Learning modes, which completely transform how programming is taught and learned. The Explanatory mode enables Claude to explain its reasoning step-by-step, sharing architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and best practices while writing code. The Learning mode,
In its August 2025 report, Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of deliberately bypassing website protection systems and technical restrictions designed to prevent their content being harvested for AI training. The company identified suspicious activity across more than 32,000 websites in the space of three months. According to the report, Perplexity’
Hackers have uncovered a critical security flaw in Google Gemini AI, through which even a seemingly harmless calendar entry could be enough to take control of smart home systems. The vulnerability was disclosed in August 2025, and it became clear that attackers could bypass standard authentication processes and gain access
On July 25, 2025, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, BSI) published its white paper Transparency of Bias in AI Systems - Challenges and Proposed Solutions, providing a comprehensive framework for addressing bias in AI systems. The document analyses in detail the
China published its Global AI Governance Action Plan on 26 July, just days after the United States released its AI blueprint on 23 July. Premier Li Qiang announced the establishment of a new global AI cooperation organisation at Shanghai's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, where over 800 companies showcased
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
