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
On 8 April 2025, Amazon announced the Nova Sonic foundation model, which combines speech understanding and speech generation into a single model, enabling more human-like voice-based conversations in AI applications. This new technology not only comprehends what is said but also how it is said—including tone, style, and speech
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
On 18 March 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that creations generated solely by artificial intelligence are not eligible for copyright protection, reinforcing that copyright law presupposes a human creator. The decision came in a case brought by computer scientist Stephen Thaler,
On 17 February 2025, Chinese company StepFun publicly released its open-source text-to-video generation model, Step-Video-T2V, featuring 30 billion parameters. Positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, the model interprets bilingual (English and Chinese) text prompts and can generate videos of up to 204 frames in 544×992 resolution.
