On August 5, 2025, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson admitted to regularly using ChatGPT and the French service LeChat as a second opinion in his governmental role, immediately drawing criticism from experts and media. Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå University, emphasised that AI is incapable of
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on 17 July, enabling users to delegate complex, real-world tasks to AI, including restaurant reservations, grocery shopping, and presentation creation. ChatGPT Agent represents an advanced version of the previous Operator tool, combining Operator's website interaction capabilities, deep research's information synthesis skills, and
According to an investigation published by Futurism in June 2025, multiple individuals have been placed in psychiatric institutions or jailed after experiencing severe mental health crises following intensive conversations with ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. The documented cases include a man in his early 40s with no prior history of
ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular AI chatbot, suffered a decisive defeat against a 46-year-old Atari 2600 chess program when researcher Stephen Cobb pitted the two systems against each other in March 2024. During the experiment, the gaming console won five out of six matches, with ChatGPT securing only a single
OpenAI announced on May 8, 2025, its first "connector" for ChatGPT deep research, bringing GitHub integration to the popular AI assistant. The new feature lets developers connect their code repositories directly to ChatGPT, enabling the AI to sift through codebases and engineering documentation to generate comprehensive, cited research
Meta released its standalone artificial intelligence application on April 29, 2025, directly competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI assistants – announced at the company's LlamaCon developer event in California. The new app runs on Meta's Llama AI model and offers personalised responses based on
OpenAI’s GPT-4o image generator went viral almost instantly after thousands of users began creating images in the iconic style of Studio Ghibli, raising serious copyright concerns. The artificial intelligence mimics the Japanese animation studio’s visual world with remarkable accuracy based solely on text prompts. The phenomenon was amplified
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)
Due to the excessive use of ChatGPT's image generation function, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on 30 March 2025, urged users to cut back on generating Studio Ghibli-style images, as it is placing an extraordinary strain on the company’s GPU resources and staff. In a message posted
On 28 January 2025, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Gov, a dedicated AI platform developed specifically for US government agencies. Delivered via Microsoft Azure’s cloud services, the platform provides access to OpenAI’s most advanced language models for public sector use. ChatGPT Gov enables government bodies to adopt AI technologies while
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek unveiled its new chatbot in January 2025, which, they claim, operates at a considerably lower cost and energy consumption than competitors. This could represent a significant breakthrough in reducing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, as current data centres consume 1-2% of global electricity, according
OpenAI announced on 25th February 2025 that it is making its Deep Research feature available to all paying ChatGPT users. The advanced research tool, which is based on the o3 model and was previously accessible only to Pro users, is now available to Plus (for $20 per month), Team, Edu,
