The Washington Post introduced Your Personal Podcast, an AI-powered customisable audio briefing available to registered users on its mobile app, developed through a multi-year agreement with AI voice-generating software company Eleven Labs. In three rounds of internal testing, between 68% and 84% of scripts generated by the feature failed a
On 11th December 2025, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's short-form video generator. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, whilst the
On 9 December 2025, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google regarding its use of online content for AI purposes, marking the latest regulatory action against U.S. tech giants. The Commission is examining whether Google breached EU competition rules by using content from web publishers and
On 11th December 2025, global energy technology company SLB signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Shell to develop digital and AI solutions that drive measurable performance and efficiency gains across upstream operations. The collaboration aims to develop agentic AI-powered solutions that will accelerate and amplify the capabilities of technical experts
Approximately three in ten US teenagers use AI chatbots every day, with 16% engaging several times daily or almost constantly, according to a Pew Research Centre survey of 1,458 teens aged 13 to 17 conducted from 25 September to 9 October 2025. Overall, 64% of teens report using AI
Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of modern AI, is departing Meta at the end of the year after 12 years with the company, where he served as founding director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Chief AI Scientist. LeCun plans to launch a startup focused on world models, a
Warner Music Group announced that it has reached settlements with AI music startups Suno and Udio, resolving copyright infringement lawsuits filed just over a year ago by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on behalf of major record companies. The deals mark a significant shift from litigation to collaboration,
ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on last Thursday, 20 November 2025. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in select regions, including Japan and New Zealand. The feature allows users to collaborate
Fireflies AI co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted in a LinkedIn post that when the company launched in 2017, its AI-powered note-taking service charging $100 per month was actually just him and co-founder Krish Ramineni manually transcribing meetings by hand. The company made headlines this summer with a $1 billion valuation,
Netflix will introduce AI-powered, interactive advertisements to its basic package from 2026, which will not simply interrupt content but adapt to it. Amy Reinhard, head of Netflix's advertising business, announced at an event for advertising agencies that the company's in-house developed advertising technology is ready, and
A dramatic shift has occurred in how people use generative AI, with personal well-being applications now dominating technical uses – therapy and companionship ranks first on the list, according to Harvard Business Review's "The 2025 Top-100 Gen AI Use Case Report" published in April 2025, surpassing life
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
