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Week of September 29, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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OpenAI’s video generation app Sora, tops Apple’s App Store

📰 CNBC | 📅 October 03, 2025

OpenAI’s new Sora app has secured the top spot in Apple’s App Store ahead of Google Gemini and the startup’s own ChatGPT. Sora allows users to generate short-form AI videos, remix videos created by other users and post them to a shared feed.

Google’s Jules enters developers’ toolchains as AI coding agent competition heats up

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 October 02, 2025

Jules is already being used by developers to complete code after experimenting on vibe-coding platforms.

OpenAI announces strategic collaboration with Japan’s Digital Agency

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 October 02, 2025

OpenAI and Japan’s Digital Agency partner to advance generative AI in public services, support international AI governance, and promote safe, trustworthy AI adoption worldwide.

AI causes reduction in users’ brain activity – MIT

📰 AI News | 📅 October 01, 2025

A study from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has found that the human brain not only works less hard when using an LLM, but its effects continue, negatively affecting mental activity in future work. The researchers used a limited number of subjects for their experiments (a limitation stated in the paper [PDF]), who were asked […] The post AI causes reduction in users’ brain activity – MIT appeared first on AI News.

Why AI phishing detection will define cybersecurity in 2026

📰 AI News | 📅 October 01, 2025

Reuters recently published a joint experiment with Harvard, where they asked popular AI chatbots like Grok, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and others to craft the “perfect phishing email.” The generated emails were then sent to 108 volunteers, of whom 11% clicked on the malicious links. With one simple prompt, the researchers were armed with highly persuasive messages […] The post Why AI phishing detection will define cybersecurity in 2026 appeared first on AI News.

Introducing parental controls

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 September 29, 2025

We’re rolling out parental controls and a new parent resource page to help families guide how ChatGPT works in their homes.

Buy it in ChatGPT: Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 September 29, 2025

We’re taking first steps toward agentic commerce in ChatGPT with new ways for people, AI agents, and businesses to shop together.