On 14 May 2025, Elon Musk's xAI company's Grok AI chatbot began promoting a South African "white genocide" conspiracy theory regardless of user queries. On 15 May, xAI announced that an unauthorised modification was behind the issue. In responses examined by CNBC, the chatbot
Netflix began testing a new artificial intelligence-powered search engine in April 2025, based on OpenAI's technology. As Bloomberg announced on 13 April 2025, the streaming giant has made this new tool available only to certain subscribers for now, who must explicitly opt in to use the feature. The
According to a study published by Forethought Research on 26 March 2025, the complete automation of AI research and development could potentially lead to a software-driven intelligence explosion. The researchers examined what happens when AI systems become capable of fully automating their own development processes, creating a feedback loop where
The development of artificial intelligence has never been as rapid and significant as shown by the annual report published on 7 April 2025 by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Now in its eighth year, the AI Index provides a comprehensive overview of global AI developments, covering technical
In March 2025, the IBM AI Ethics Board published a comprehensive report on artificial intelligence agents, detailing the opportunities presented by AI agents, their associated risks, and recommended risk mitigation strategies, highlighting that these systems can create significant value for companies while introducing new types of sociotechnical risks requiring advanced
There is currently insufficient data on the impact of artificial intelligence on elections to draw well-founded conclusions, while initial threat predictions have proven exaggerated. Researchers from the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics identified only 71 instances of AI use in election-related communication in 2024. Purdue University researchers documented
A joint study by OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab, published on 21 March 2025, found that users who form emotional bonds with ChatGPT are more prone to loneliness and emotional dependency. The researchers analysed nearly 40 million ChatGPT interactions using automated methods. They conducted a randomised controlled trial (RCT)
The AI 2027 report, published on 3 April 2025 under the leadership of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, presents a detailed roadmap of the accelerating development of artificial intelligence. It predicts that by the end of 2027, AI systems will surpass human capabilities, potentially leading to a severe international crisis
Google’s new Gemini 2.0 Flash model has surprised developers with an unexpected capability: it effortlessly removes watermarks from images, raising significant copyright concerns. On 17 March 2025, multiple social media users discovered that Google’s experimental AI model not only removes watermarks—including those from Getty Images and
Manus, the general artificial intelligence agent developed by the Wuhan-based Butterfly Effect startup and debuted in early March 2025, has gained global attention with praise from influential tech personalities such as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Victor Mustar, Head of Product at Hugging Face. The platform, which describes itself as
In March 2025, Sakana AI’s "AI Scientist-v2" system achieved a significant milestone by producing the first fully AI-generated scientific paper to successfully pass peer review at a workshop of the ICLR conference. The research team submitted three AI-generated studies, one of which—titled "Compositional Regularization: Unexpected
The first international AI safety report was published on 29th January 2025 by 96 international experts led by Yoshua Bengio, documenting artificial intelligence's social, economic, and environmental impacts with concrete data. The document jointly endorsed at the 2023 Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit provides a scientific foundation for
