OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 with two variants - GPT-5.1 Instant for enhanced conversations and GPT-5.1 Thinking for adaptive reasoning - while introducing specialized mental health safety features targeting delusions, psychosis, and emotional dependency concerns.
MIT researchers unveil SEAL, a groundbreaking technique that enables AI models to permanently learn new information by creating their own study sheets and updating internal weights, boosting accuracy by 15% on question-answering and over 50% on skill-learning tasks.
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable surges to nearly 8 million users and attracts Fortune 500 companies despite experiencing a 40% traffic drop since September, as the one-year-old company seeks a massive $5 billion valuation after previously raising $228 million.
Israeli AI startup Wonderful secures $100 million Series A funding to expand its customer service agents that resolve 80% of daily requests across voice, chat, and email, with plans to enter Germany, Austria, and Nordic markets in 2025.
Google launches Private AI Compute platform to rival Apple's privacy-focused cloud processing, enabling Pixel 10 phones to handle complex AI tasks on secure servers while keeping sensitive user data inaccessible to Google itself.
Google Photos introduces revolutionary AI-powered editing features using Nano Banana technology, allowing users to transform photos with simple voice commands like making people smile or creating artistic styles while preserving realistic facial features.
Wikipedia demands payment from AI companies as tech giants increasingly rely on the platform's human-edited content to prevent their AI models from collapsing, with the Wikimedia Foundation calling for proper attribution and financial support to sustain operations that provide the transparent, verifiable knowledge that AI systems desperately need but cannot …
Google launches Private AI Compute platform for Pixel 10 devices, using zero-access encryption and hardware-secured enclaves to process personal data with powerful Gemini AI models while keeping information completely inaccessible to Google itself.
GitHub unveils AgentHQ at GitHub Universe 2025, a new platform that enables developers to create AI agents capable of automating complex development tasks like issue triage, code reviews, and deployment beyond what Copilot offers, marking a significant leap toward autonomous software development workflows.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, a free open-source reasoning model that reportedly outperforms GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on major benchmarks while costing just $4.6 million to train, potentially disrupting the billion-dollar AI market and intensifying US-China competition.