Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced on the X social platform on June 10th, 2025, that the release of the company's first open-source AI model will be delayed until later this summer. The model, previously announced in April 2025, is being postponed due to safety concerns, highlighting the
Meta's AI chatbot service recently raised serious privacy concerns after thousands of users discovered their supposedly private conversations appeared publicly in the app's Discover feed. The issue came to light in early June 2025, when users reported seeing their personal health questions, dating advice, and other
The EU AI Code of Practice establishes a significant new benchmark for AI safety practices, setting mandatory requirements for models exceeding 10^25 FLOPs. The European Commission released the three chapters of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice on July 10, 2025, as a voluntary tool to help industry
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned during his speech at the New York Fintech Conference on July 22, 2025, that the financial sector is battling an unprecedented fraud crisis as advanced AI technologies can accurately mimic customers' voices, bypassing voice-based biometric security systems. According to Altman, financial institutions reported $7.
In July 2025, a serious privacy flaw was discovered in the Meta AI application that caused users' conversations to automatically become public due to default settings, making personal questions and answers visible to anyone, which most users were unprepared for. The root of the problem was the app'
Mattel and OpenAI announced a strategic collaboration on June 12, 2025, to develop AI-powered toys and experiences expected to launch later this year. The Barbie maker will utilise OpenAI's technology to "bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences" with an emphasis on innovation, privacy,
A Polish researcher demonstrated in April 2025 that ChatGPT-4o can be used to create a convincing fake passport in just 5 minutes that passes automated KYC (Know Your Customer) checks. The fraudulent document created by Borys Musielak was so realistic that it successfully bypassed automated verification systems of major fintech
OpenAI announced in early April 2025 that it is participating in a $43 million Series A funding round for New York-based Adaptive Security, marking the company's first investment in the cybersecurity sector. The funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the OpenAI Startup Fund, aims to develop defences
Anthropic's research team published a study in April 2025 revealing alarming results about reasoning AI models: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 models failed to mention factors influencing their answers in their Chain-of-Thought reasoning 75% and 61% of the time respectively. Researchers embedded six different types of
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex CLI, an open-source coding tool that runs in the terminal and transforms natural language instructions into executable code. The new tool integrates OpenAI's advanced language models, including o3 and o4-mini, with local coding and computing tasks, enabling developers to perform
A pseudonymous developer unveiled the SpeechMap "free speech eval" on 16 April 2025, measuring how different AI models—including OpenAI's ChatGPT and X's Grok—respond to sensitive and controversial topics. The benchmarking tool compares 78 different AI models across 492 question themes, analysing over
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
