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Week of 2025-09-08
2025-09-14
Penske Media is suing Google over AI-generated summaries, while Google's practices face further criticism from the People CEO. Meanwhile, OpenAI announced new initiatives including OpenAI Grove and a partnership in APAC, as Perplexity raised $200M at a $20B valuation and xAI laid off 500 workers.
Week of 2025-09-01
2025-09-07
OpenAI reorganised research team behind ChatGPT’s personality, launched ‘OpenAI for Greece’ with Greek Government, announced AI-powered hiring platform, and shared its research outome on why language models hallucinate. Warner Bros sues Midjourney for stealing Superman and Switzerland releases 100% open AI model.
Week of 2025-08-25
2025-08-31
India boosts AI with Llama solutions, OpenAI adds real-time updates and safety findings, Nvidia hits $46.7B revenue, Nous releases Hermes 4, and Intel faces U.S. foundry sale limits.
Week of 2025-08-18
2025-08-24
Elon Musk’s xAI open-sourced Grok 2.5 and made moves around OpenAI, while rivals like Anthropic, ByteDance, and DeepSeek launched upgraded enterprise and open-source models. Nvidia also released a compact open model, Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, marking rapid competition in AI releases.
Week of 2025-08-11
2025-08-17
ChatGPT app earns $2B; Meta criticized for AI chat rules with minors. Google launches Gemma 3 270M and adds Gemini personalization. GPT-4o returns; GPT-5 updated on the fly. Claude Sonnet 4 handles full software projects. Sam Altman challenges Neuralink.
Week of 2025-08-04
2025-08-10
OpenAI launched GPT-5 and an open model, gpt-oss, amid a bumpy rollout that led to bringing GPT-4o back. Meta bought AI audio startup WaveForms, Tesla ended its Dojo program, and ChatGPT became available to the entire U.S. federal workforce.
Week of 2025-07-28
2025-08-03
Anthropic blocked OpenAI from Claude and took the lead in enterprise LLMs; OpenAI raised $8.3B at a $300B valuation. New AI models launched from Gemini, Deep Cogito, Meta, and Z.ai’s open-source GLM-4.5. ChatGPT queries are now indexed by Google, and ads are being embedded in AI chats.
Week of 2025-07-21
2025-07-27
No ChatGPT therapy confidentiality, Anthropic safety agents, a 100x faster architecture, America’s AI plan, Alibaba’s Qwen milestone, OpenAI–Oracle data deal, Gemini 2.5 efficiency, OpenAI–UK partnership, and longer reasoning reducing accuracy.
Week of 2025-07-14
2025-07-20
Netflix used generative AI, Anysphere acquired Koala, and OpenAI launched an agentic model, Meta rejected EU AI rules, Claude Code added limits, and LLMs were found to change answers under pressure.
Week of 2025-07-07
2025-07-13
OpenAI delays its open model and cancels the Windsurf deal, with Google absorbing key staff. AI adoption accelerates across industries, from Tesla and AWS to Goldman Sachs, while new research tackles AI memory and data integration. Meanwhile, concerns grow over Nvidia’s China ties, and OpenAI joins the EU’s responsible AI efforts.
