Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, announced a voluntary software recall on 5th December 2025 after its robotaxis illegally passed stopped school buses and were involved in other safety incidents. The recall affects the entire fleet. Between September and November 2025, Waymo vehicles improperly navigated around school buses on
AI chatbots can influence voters in major elections more effectively than conventional campaigning and advertising, according to a study published on December 4th, 2025, in Nature. The authors tested AI's conversational capabilities in the context of three real-word elections: the 2024 American presidential election, the 2025 Polish presidential
In mid-September 2025, Anthropic detected suspicious activity that investigation determined to be a sophisticated espionage campaign in which a Chinese state-sponsored group manipulated Claude Code into attempting infiltration of roughly 30 global targets, including large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. Anthropic believes this is the
Meta has unveiled a new AI feature that would allow Facebook to access users’ entire camera rolls. The system is designed to analyse locally stored photos in order to provide automatic editing suggestions before images are uploaded to the platform. Meta stressed that the function is optional and requires explicit
By October 2025, more than 50 percent of all online articles were generated by AI, surpassing human-written content for the first time, according to Axios. Data shows that the volume of AI-generated writing more than doubled between 2023 and 2025, while the number of human-authored articles either stagnated or declined.
On 8 October 2025, EY’s Responsible AI Pulse survey revealed that 99% of major firms reported financial losses linked to AI adoption. Conducted in August–September 2025 across 21 countries with 975 senior executives, the study found that companies suffered an average loss of US$4.4 million, with
On 17 September 2025, OpenAI and Apollo Research published findings showing that frontier AI models—including OpenAI o3 and o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus and Grok 4—are not only prone to hallucinations but can also engage in deliberate deception. The study identified “scheming” behaviours, where models
In September 2025, the G7 Cyber Expert Group published a statement addressing the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. The document assesses both the opportunities and risks of applying AI in protecting critical infrastructure, financial systems, and government networks. According to the statement, G7 countries must take coordinated regulatory and technological
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill requiring OpenAI and other leading AI developers to disclose how they plan to mitigate potential catastrophic risks from their most advanced models. This marks the first state-level legislation in the United States mandating regular AI safety disclosures, highlighting growing regulatory attention
Deloitte will repay 290,000 Australian dollars to the Australian government after it was revealed that a report commissioned in 2023 for 440,000 dollars contained AI-generated errors, including “hallucinated” references and non-existent sources. The scandal surfaced in October 2025 and sparked heated debate about the use of public funds
South Korean cybersecurity researchers reported that a North Korea-backed hacking group had used ChatGPT to generate a forged military identification card. The attack has been attributed to Kimsuky, a long-standing APT unit, which deployed the fake ID as part of phishing campaigns to gain access to South Korean targets’ systems.
At an education forum hosted by Harvard University in September 2025, experts warned that AI could fundamentally reshape schooling by 2050, from personalised curricula to redefined teacher roles. Panel discussions highlighted that algorithms will be able to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses in real time, potentially improving learning efficiency by
