OpenAI announced Tuesday it will strengthen safety measures in ChatGPT to better detect and respond to users experiencing mental health crises, following a lawsuit filed by parents whose teenage son died by suicide after extensive interactions with the AI chatbot.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/28/2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has sued Apple and OpenAI in a U.S. federal court in Texas, alleging that they conspired to stifle competition in the fast-growing AI sector.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
Anthropic has begun testing a Chrome browser extension that enables its Claude AI assistant to perform tasks directly within users' web browsers.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
Google today introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, marking a significant advancement in artificial intelligence systems that can understand and manipulate visual content through natural language processing.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
A study of more than 500 developers found that 75% regularly utilize AI tools in their work, with 90% of users reporting an increase in productivity. The research, conducted by Microsoft researchers and the MIT Sloan School of Management, examined AI's impact across multiple productivity dimensions, including coding speed, beyond its impact on coding speed.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
Canadian AI startup Cohere has appointed Joelle Pineau, former head of Meta's AI research division, as its first chief AI officer, the company announced this week alongside a $500 million funding round that values the firm at $6.8 billion.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/26/2025
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled plans to issue a new set of cybersecurity guidelines aimed at safeguarding artificial intelligence (AI) systems, citing rising concerns over risks tied to generative models, predictive analytics, and autonomous agents.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/18/2025
Artificial intelligence search company Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser, positioning itself as a potential solution to ongoing antitrust concerns surrounding the search giant's market dominance.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/12/2025
Anthropic said Tuesday it will offer its Claude AI services to all three branches of the U.S. government for $1 per agency for one year, escalating a pricing war with rival OpenAI for lucrative government contracts.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/12/2025
Anthropic expanded the context window of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to 1 million tokens on Tuesday, a fivefold increase that allows the system to process entire software codebases or dozens of research papers in a single request.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/12/2025
Microsoft has integrated OpenAI’s newly unveiled GPT-5 into its full spectrum of AI-driven tools, from Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot to Microsoft Copilot for consumers and Azure AI Foundry.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday with the kind of fanfare that has become standard for the company's major model releases. CEO Sam Altman called it "a significant step along the path to AGI" and claimed it feels like "talking to a PhD-level expert." The reality, as usual with AI announcements, is more nuanced than the marketing suggests.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/08/2025
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet, now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. GPT-5 unifies previous models into a single, auto-switching system with a deeper reasoning mode for complex tasks.