On 29 September 2025, Anthropic introduced Claude Sonnet 4.5, describing it as the most powerful AI coding model ever released. The company highlighted its outstanding capabilities in code generation, debugging, and complex software development tasks. Claude Sonnet 4.5 showed exceptional performance in languages such as Python, Java, and
Nvidia announced a $5 billion purchase of Intel common stock at a price of $23.28 per share. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval, but financial markets reacted immediately: Intel’s shares surged by almost 23%, while Nvidia’s own stock climbed by more than 3%. This reflects
In September 2025, a new AI company called Periodic Labs secured a $300 million seed round to revolutionise the process of scientific discovery through automation. Founded by former researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind, the startup aims to accelerate breakthroughs by delegating labour-intensive tasks such as hypothesis generation, experiment design and
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
According to the latest AI market report from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), ChatGPT’s competitors – particularly Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok – have significantly reduced their gap with OpenAI’s leading chatbot over the past two and a half years. While ChatGPT continues to dominate both web and mobile platforms,
The German company DeepL, previously best known for its AI-based translation services, announced on 3 September 2025 the launch of DeepL Agent, an AI agent designed specifically for enterprise users. The newly introduced product is capable of automating repetitive, time-consuming corporate tasks and, by responding to natural language commands, can
Chinese higher education institutions have undergone a significant shift in their approach to AI technologies in education. As demonstrated by a recent Mycos Institute survey showing that AI use has become virtually universal across Chinese universities, with only 1% of faculty and students reporting never using AI tools, while nearly
