AI News Feed

27 Oct 2025- UK analyst Julien Garran warns today's AI boom is the largest, riskiest bubble—vast unprofitable valuations, funding fragility, potential economic drag; he doubts LLM-driven commercial success.

25 Oct 2025- Sam Altman’s Merge Labs hired Caltech engineer Mikhail Shapiro to lead noninvasive BCI work using ultrasound, magnetic and gene‑based techniques; company seeks large funding and favors read‑only interfaces.

25 Oct 2025- Microsoft relaunched agentic Copilot Mode in Edge—an Atlas‑like browsing assistant that reasons over tabs and acts for users—escalating competition and raising privacy and monetization concerns.

24 Oct 2025- EA partners with Stability AI to co-develop AI tools for game content creation — from PBR texture generation to 3D previsualization — augmenting artists while keeping humans central.

24 Oct 2025- Meta, Amazon and Alibaba unveiled AR/AI glasses: Meta's glitchy demo; Amazon's logistics-focused hands-free scanner/controller; Alibaba's consumer Quark glasses with Qwen LLM priced $660, betting on wearables.

24 Oct 2025- Microsoft launches Edge's "Copilot Mode" — tab-based AI chat integrating search and navigation, adding preview Copilot Actions and Journeys; limited rollout with mixed, error-prone agentic features.

22 Oct 2025- YouTube rolls out AI "Likeness Detection" to Partner Program creators to flag videos using their face, letting verified creators review and request removal of suspected deepfakes.

22 Oct 2025- Anthropic launched Claude Code: a sandboxed coding agent isolating filesystem and network access, cutting permission prompts 84%, proxying git credentials, running isolated cloud sessions, and open‑sourcing the sandbox.

21 Oct 2025- Friend’s $129 chatbot pendant sparked NYC backlash after a $1M subway ad campaign; protests and graffiti escalated, founder Avi Schiffmann confronted critics and pledged not to sell to Big Tech.

21 Oct 2025- AI-generated Bryan Cranston videos on OpenAI’s Sora 2 led actors, agencies and SAG‑AFTRA to demand protections; OpenAI pledged stronger guardrails and opt‑in likeness controls, but gave no specifics.

20 Oct 2025- Andrej Karpathy says no AGI until 2035, criticizes LLMs' cognitive limits (RL rewards lucky guesses, coding bloat, memorization), warns of reliability costs, predicts a decade of augmented intelligence.

18 Oct 2025- Meta is rolling out an opt‑in Facebook feature in US/Canada that uploads camera‑roll photos to the cloud to suggest edits — saying uploads won't train AI unless edited or shared.

18 Oct 2025- Anthropic launches "Skills" for Claude: folder-based, dynamically loaded bundles of workflows, scripts, and assets, plus an interactive creator, enabling enterprise automation like on‑brand PowerPoint generation.

17 Oct 2025- Google launches Veo 3.1 — editing-focused video generation supporting three reference images, start/end-frame transitions with audio, and scene extension to ~1-minute; available in Flow, Vertex AI, and Gemini.

17 Oct 2025- Anthropic forecasts ~$9B ARR, targets $25B in 2026, launches Claude Haiku 4.5 (faster, cheaper); Google unveils Veo 3.1 video-generation with character consistency and advanced editing.

16 Oct 2025- Google updates Flow with Veo 3.1: improved motion, lighting and shadow controls, new audio generation (Ingredients/Frames/Scene Extension), object-removal, available as paid preview via Gemini API/app.

16 Oct 2025- Stanford’s AI Evo, trained on ~2M phage genomes, generated synthesized bacteriophages—16 of 302 proved functional against E. coli, promising faster phage therapies while raising safety concerns.

15 Oct 2025- OpenAI will permit erotica in ChatGPT for verified adults starting December, adding age‑verification and controls; Altman cites relaxed restrictions and formed a well‑being expert council.

14 Oct 2025- California's SB 243 requires companion chatbots to clearly disclose they're AI and, starting next year, submit annual suicide‑prevention reports to the state Office of Suicide Prevention.

14 Oct 2025- Andrew Tulloch, co‑founder of Thinking Machines Lab, left to rejoin Meta amid reported multibillion-dollar recruitment, underscoring intense competition for AI talent and Meta’s AI reorganization.

13 Oct 2025- David Pierce says OpenAI’s ChatGPT is shifting into an “operating system” hosting apps, turning the assistant into an everything app while stirring cultural debates about AI art and games.

13 Oct 2025- Teens use Snapchat’s AI to generate images of a homeless-looking man to prank parents, sparking panic, wasting police resources, demeaning unhoused people, and risking dangerous responses.

13 Oct 2025- Figure AI unveiled the Figure 03 humanoid home robot with Helix vision-language-action learning, hardware upgrades, BotQ factory plans, $1B funding, and mass-production targets despite demo reliability issues.

11 Oct 2025- OpenAI stress‑tested ChatGPT across 100 political topics with five framings; found infrequent, low‑severity bias, with GPT‑5 variants reducing bias about 30% versus older models.

11 Oct 2025- Hollywood executives unprepared as OpenAI’s Sora—topping 1M downloads—raises copyright concerns over alleged training on studio IP; music industry better organized to demand licensing.

11 Oct 2025- Google launches Gemini Enterprise: a no-code workplace AI platform with ready-made agents, partner marketplace, secure data connectors, priced $30/month; rivals like Amazon's Quick Suite focus on enterprise integration and deployment.

10 Oct 2025- Jony Ive and Sam Altman outlined OpenAI’s hardware push — post-io acquisition — designing a "family of devices" to improve emotional well‑being and curb device addiction; no immediate consumer release.

09 Oct 2025- Sam Altman at Dev Day 2025 predicts agentic AI enabling novel discovery, autonomous multi‑step agents that could run complex businesses—even “zero‑person” billion‑dollar startups—reshaping work and society.

09 Oct 2025- Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use—browser‑control AI—outperforms rivals in Browserbase tests, faster and more accurate, automates UI actions with safety confirmations; available to developers via API preview.

08 Oct 2025- OpenAI's DevDay unveiled Codex as an AI co‑worker, a no‑code Agent Builder, Apps SDK for interactive ChatGPT UIs, and new models (Sora 2, GPT‑5 Pro), accelerating agentic prototyping.

07 Oct 2025- OpenAI launched a ChatGPT SDK letting third‑party apps integrate into conversations—demoed with Canva and Zillow. Early partners include Booking, Coursera, Expedia, Figma, Spotify; SDK preview available.

07 Oct 2025- Google launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program rewarding researchers—up to $20K (or $30K with bonuses)—for exploits causing "rogue actions" in generative AI; it also unveiled CodeMender for patching.

07 Oct 2025- OpenAI adds built-in ChatGPT app integrations (Spotify, Canva, Figma, Zillow, Expedia, Coursera) to control services within conversations; EU rollout delayed, broader developer platform arriving later.

07 Oct 2025- OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Pulse: a Pro-only, personalized daily briefing using transcripts and connected apps; ads discussed but Sam Altman says there are no current plans.

07 Oct 2025- OpenAI’s Sora went viral but faced copyright and deepfake issues; CEO Sam Altman announced opt‑in rights controls, revenue‑sharing for copyrighted or celebrity likenesses, stricter limits, and creator features.

07 Oct 2025- OpenAI's invite-only Sora topped the App Store amid content-filter backlash; Altman promises granular rights controls and revenue sharing. Leaked Agent Builder and mysterious "Cheetah" model raise dev/privacy concerns.

04 Oct 2025- OpenAI’s Sora iOS app creates 10‑second AI videos and likeness "cameos," sparking meme virality but raising deepfake, copyright, and weak‑safeguard concerns despite watermarking and identity controls.

04 Oct 2025- OpenAI completed a secondary share sale valuing it at $500B—surpassing SpaceX—employees sold ~$6.6B in shares; buyers included Thrive, SoftBank, and MGX amid rapid revenue growth.

03 Oct 2025- Ring's new AI "Search Party" scans nearby Ring outdoor cameras for matching lost-dog images, enabled by default (opt-out), sparking privacy concerns despite company reassurances.

03 Oct 2025- Apple halted its cheaper Vision Pro variant, refocusing on multiple AI- and voice-driven smart‑glasses — phone‑connected and display models — to challenge Meta’s Ray‑Ban lineup.

03 Oct 2025- Ex-OpenAI/DeepMind team raised $300M for Periodic Labs: AI-driven robotic labs that design, run, and learn from real experiments to accelerate materials and chip discovery.

02 Oct 2025- OpenAI released Sora 2, a video-generation model producing more photorealistic 5–10s clips with synchronized audio/dialogue, and launched Cameos app for AI likeness videos, raising virality and quality concerns.

01 Oct 2025- Google blocks AI-generated overviews for queries about Donald Trump’s cognitive health, returning links instead; Biden/Obama queries get summaries. Google says AI Mode won’t produce answers for every search.

01 Oct 2025- OpenAI launches Instant Checkout in ChatGPT (U.S.), enabling in-chat purchases via Stripe with Etsy initially, open-sourced Agentic Commerce Protocol, signaling a shift toward agent-driven AI commerce.

01 Oct 2025- Four major AI launches: OpenAI adds in-chat Instant Checkout with Stripe; Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 and developer tools; Microsoft adds Copilot Agent Mode; DeepSeek unveils cost‑saving long‑context model.

30 Sep 2025- Microsoft centralizes Windows engineering under one organization led by Pavan Davuluri, consolidating core teams to accelerate AI features and create an "Agentic OS," while some components remain with Azure.

30 Sep 2025- California enacted SB 53, requiring large "frontier AI" developers to publish safety/security frameworks and updates, establish incident reporting and whistleblower protections, with civil penalties; industry reaction split.

30 Sep 2025- Xicoia’s synthetic performer Tilly Norwood is courting Hollywood agencies, sparking actor boycotts and industry debate over representation, compensation, and ownership of AI-driven performers.

29 Sep 2025- Generative-AI firms court Hollywood with text-to-image/video deals (e.g., Critterz), promising cost cuts but facing technical limits, legal battles, labor concerns, and uncertain creative value.

29 Sep 2025- Trump posted then removed an AI-generated fake Fox News clip on Truth Social promoting the “MedBed” conspiracy; Fox News says the segment never aired and the motive is unclear.