Anthropic announced the launch of ‘Skills’ for Claude, enabling the AI to load folders containing instructions, scripts and resources to perform specific tasks more effectively. The feature is designed to accelerate automation, reduce costs and improve consistency across business and research applications. The Skills function shortens the time needed to
In mid-October 2025, Anthropic officially launched Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest and fastest member of the Claude 4.5 family. The company describes it as the lightest Claude model released to date, capable of processing large volumes of customer interactions within seconds. Its primary goal is to deliver low
Anthropic has released Petri, an open-source framework that deploys automated agents to test AI models in realistic scenarios. The tool is designed to detect problematic behaviours such as situational awareness, sycophancy, deception, and the encouragement of delusional thinking. Its purpose is to make AI safety auditing more systematic and scalable.
Google’s DolphinGemma model, built with nearly 400 million parameters, is designed to study dolphin vocalisations using decades of recordings collected by Georgia Tech and the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP). Since 1985, WDP has compiled extensive audio and behavioural data on Atlantic spotted dolphins, enabling the model to uncover structural
On 1 October 2025, Meta announced that it may begin using data from users’ AI chatbot conversations to deliver targeted advertising. The company stated that interactions with its AI assistants—similar to ChatGPT—will be anonymised and analysed to build more precise advertising profiles. This initiative is strategically important as
In October, Elon Musk announced Grokipedia, a new online encyclopedia designed to directly compete with Wikipedia, which has operated since 2001. The project will be integrated into the ecosystems of xAI and X (formerly Twitter), with the aim of combining community-driven knowledge sharing with generative AI technologies. The announcement is
On 29 September 2025, Anthropic introduced Claude Sonnet 4.5, describing it as the most powerful AI coding model ever released. The company highlighted its outstanding capabilities in code generation, debugging, and complex software development tasks. Claude Sonnet 4.5 showed exceptional performance in languages such as Python, Java, and
A study published in Cell Reports Physical Science in September 2025 reports that a generative AI model screened over 1 million simulated crystal structures and identified porous oxide materials as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage. The research, led by Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, focused particularly on
On 25 September 2025, Clarifai unveiled its new “Reasoning Engine,” which the company claims boosts inference and reasoning performance on GPUs by up to tenfold while significantly reducing costs. According to TechCrunch, the system is specifically designed for “agentic AI” applications—systems that require autonomous decision-making and multi-step task execution.
On 22 September 2025, multiple reports indicated that OpenAI is working on its own hardware devices, including a smart speaker, smart glasses, a voice recorder, and a wearable “pin,” as an extension of the ChatGPT ecosystem. The initiative aims to integrate artificial intelligence more directly into everyday life, from voice-based
In September 2025, a new AI company called Periodic Labs secured a $300 million seed round to revolutionise the process of scientific discovery through automation. Founded by former researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind, the startup aims to accelerate breakthroughs by delegating labour-intensive tasks such as hypothesis generation, experiment design and
Google announced on 21 August 2025 that its AI Mode search feature, previously available only in the United States, the United Kingdom and India, is now being rolled out to 180 additional countries and territories in English. The company also plans to extend the feature to more languages and regions
