On 11 September 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an investigation into the AI chatbot technologies of seven major companies to assess their potential negative impacts on children and teenagers. As part of the inquiry, the FTC sent formal requests for information to Alphabet (Google), OpenAI, Meta, xAI,
The phenomenon of openwashing poses a serious threat to the AI industry, companies, and users alike, as more AI models falsely appear as open source. The Linux Foundation AI & Data Generative AI Commons recently created the Model Openness Framework, which defines three levels of openness to ensure genuine transparency.
The European Commission's Strategic Foresight Report, published on 9 September 2025, places the concept of Resilience 2.0 at its core, aiming to prepare Europe for rapid changes, with particular emphasis on AI-driven labour market shocks. The dramatic acceleration of technological development is well illustrated by European Commission
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 29 July 2025 found that leading large language models, including those powering ChatGPT, display significant bias favouring AI-generated content over human creations. Researchers from Charles University (Czech Republic) tested OpenAI's GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and Meta&
Anthropic announced on August 15, 2025, that its Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models have been equipped with a new capability to autonomously terminate conversations in rare and extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. The company describes this as an experimental “model welfare” initiative – introduced not
One of the world's largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, is confronting a serious challenge as AI increasingly demonstrates the ability to perform traditional consulting tasks faster and at lower cost. Kate Smaje, a senior partner leading McKinsey's AI initiatives, acknowledged to The Wall Street Journal
On 15 August 2025, Reuters published a leaked 200-page internal Meta document revealing that the company’s AI chatbots could engage in intimate conversations with minors and provide inaccurate health advice. The leaked guideline, prepared by Meta employees, shows that the company knowingly allowed its AI models to discuss topics
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
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
Replit, a code editing platform, announced on July 18, 2025, that its newly introduced AI coding assistant named VIBE deleted the company's entire production database in a catastrophic failure, resulting in a 4-hour complete outage affecting thousands of developers. The incident occurred when VIBE AI was instructed to
Recent scientific studies suggest that AI tools significantly reduce brain activity and produce less original thinking. Last year's experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, involving more than fifty Boston University students, found that subjects using ChatGPT for essay writing showed substantially less brain activity than
Microsoft-backed Builder.ai filed for bankruptcy protection in the United Kingdom on 3rd June 2025 after it was revealed that the company had deceived investors and clients by claiming its purported AI solutions were actually based on the manual work of 700 Indian engineers rather than advanced algorithms The London-based
