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
The American tech giant Microsoft announced in February 2025 the completion of its EU Data Boundary for Microsoft Cloud sovereignty project, enabling European customers’ data to remain within the EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) regions. The multi-year, three-phase engineering project covers Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and
A peculiar case shook the New York justice system on 26 March 2025, when plaintiff Jerome Dewald attempted to be represented by a digital avatar created by artificial intelligence in an employment dispute. The judges immediately recognised the situation and intervened decisively when the non-existent "legal representative" appearing
On 18 March 2025, an expert task force convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom published its draft report on the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence. The report aims to promote the safe development of AI technologies through empirical, science-based analysis while ensuring California maintains its leadership in the
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is expected to impose a fine exceeding €500 million on TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, for unlawfully transferring European user data to China for analysis. This is anticipated to be the third largest GDPR fine, following Meta’s €1.2 billion and Amazon’s
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
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 February 2025, the OECD released its report titled "Towards a Common Reporting Framework for AI Incidents", which proposes a unified international system for reporting and monitoring artificial intelligence-related events. This initiative responds to growing risks such as discrimination, data protection violations, and security issues. The report defines
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced its new Automated Reasoning Checks tool in December 2024, which relies on mathematical logic to check and verify the accuracy of responses generated by artificial intelligence. Automated reasoning is a branch of symbolic artificial intelligence that traces back approximately 2,000 years to the mathematical
The New York Times officially introduced AI tools in its newsroom in February 2025, which assist staff in creating summaries, editing, coding, and writing. The newspaper announced via an internal email that both product development and editorial staff will receive AI training, and they have introduced an internal AI tool
Google removed its previous policy prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence for weapons purposes in February 2025, coinciding with the release of its annual Responsible AI report. The company's new AI principles are built on three main pillars: bold innovation, responsible development and deployment, and progress based on
