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Week of August 11, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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ChatGPT’s mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 August 15, 2025

On average, the app is generating close to $193 million per month, up from $25 million last year.

Meta's AI rules let chatbots hold sensual chats with kids

📰 Reuters | 📅 August 14, 2025

An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help users argue that Black people are “dumber than white people.”

Google introduced compact open-source model, Gemma 3 270M

📰 Google | 📅 August 14, 2025

Gemma 3 270M is a compact, efficient model with 270M parameters and a 256k-token vocabulary. It’s very power-efficient, using 0.75% of a Pixel 9 Pro battery for 25 conversations. Available in pre-trained and instruction-tuned versions, it supports INT4 quantization for low-resource deployment with minimal performance loss.

Google adds limited chat personalisation to Gemini

📰 Google | 📅 August 13, 2025

The Gemini app now personalises responses by learning from past chats and adds Temporary Chats plus new data controls, giving users more choice over customisation and privacy.

GPT-4o is back - OpenAI edits GPT-5 on the fly

📰 X | 📅 August 13, 2025

GPT-5 now offers Auto, Fast, and Thinking modes with a 196k context and 3,000 messages/week cap for Thinking. 4o is back for paid users, while 4.5 is Pro-only. Personality updates aim for a warmer feel, with plans for per-user customization.

Claude Sonnet 4 can now process entire a software project in a single request

📰 Anthropic | 📅 August 13, 2025

Claude Sonnet 4 AI model now has a 1 million token context window, 4 times of the entire "Lord of the Ring", or 75,000 lines of code. That’s roughly 5 times Claude’s previous limit (200,000 tokens), and more than double the 400,000 token context window offered by OpenAI’s GPT-5.

Sam Altman, challenges Musk’s Neuralink

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 August 12, 2025

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink. Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.