In September 2025, Anthropic formally announced that its AI models cannot be used for law enforcement or surveillance purposes in the United States, directly sparking conflict with the Trump administration. The decision is striking because the government is increasingly relying on AI technologies in national security and policing, while Anthropic
Google announced on 21 August 2025 that its AI Mode search feature, previously available only in the United States, the United Kingdom and India, is now being rolled out to 180 additional countries and territories in English. The company also plans to extend the feature to more languages and regions
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI in a Texas federal court, accusing the firms of engaging in anticompetitive practices. In the complaint, submitted on 25 August 2025, xAI and Musk’s X Corp allege that the two companies colluded to block rivals
In September 2025, Anthropic announced the closure of its latest Series F funding round, raising $13 billion from investors. As a result, the generative artificial intelligence company’s valuation rose to $183 billion. This means that Anthropic’s market value has almost tripled in just six months, having been estimated
UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed a potential £2 billion deal that would provide premium access to ChatGPT Plus for all UK residents. According to information obtained by The Guardian, the proposal emerged during a meeting in San Francisco
According to the first comprehensive benchmarking study published by LegalBenchmarks.ai in September 2025, AI tools in several cases produced contract drafts that were as accurate as, or more accurate than, those prepared by human lawyers. The study evaluated 13 AI tools across 30 real-world contract drafting tasks, where human
Italy's parliament approved a new law regulating artificial intelligence in September 2025, making it the first comprehensive AI regulation in the European Union, aligned with the EU's landmark AI regulation. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government stated that the legislation establishes human-centric, transparent and safe
An advanced version of Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved gold-medal level performance at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, which took place on 4 September in Baku, Azerbaijan. The ICPC is the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious programming competition at university level, where
OpenAI announced the development of the OpenAI Jobs Platform in September 2025, which will use AI technology to connect qualified candidates with companies, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Microsoft's LinkedIn platform. The platform is expected to launch by mid-2026 and will not only serve large companies:
xAI announced the Grok-4-Fast model in September 2025, which integrates "reasoning" and "non-reasoning" modes into a unified architecture whilst using 40% fewer thinking tokens than the Grok-4 model. The Grok-4-Fast can process up to 2 million text units at once and has been trained to use
NVIDIA’s 2025 Blackwell Ultra chip marks a major leap forward in the AI market, far surpassing its predecessor in performance. The chip delivers exceptional computational capacity for AI tasks: it operates 7.5 times faster than the previous generation and is equipped with significantly larger memory, enabling the training
In September 2025, Indianapolis bankruptcy lawyer Mark S. Zuckerberg filed a lawsuit against Meta after the company suspended his Facebook account five times in eight years on accusations of impersonating a celebrity, causing him significant business losses. The attorney, who has practised for 38 years, claims that Meta breached its
