2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his blueprint for the future of AI, and it’s about giving you “personal superintelligence”.In a letter, the Meta chief painted a picture of what’s coming next, and he believes it’s closer than we think. He says his teams are already seeing early signs of progress.“Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving...

Alibaba has released a new AI coding model called Qwen3-Coder, built to handle complex software tasks using a large open-source model. The tool is part of Alibaba’s Qwen3 family and is being promoted as the company’s most advanced coding agent to date.The model uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) approach, activating 35 billion parameters out of a total 480 billion and supporting up to 256,000 tokens of...

Google has made its most powerful AI video creator, Veo 3, available for everyone to use on its Vertex AI platform. And for those who need to work quickly, a speedier version called Veo 3 Fast is also ready-to-go for quick creative work.Ever had a brilliant idea for a video but found yourself held back by the cost, time, or technical skills needed to create it? This tool aims to offer a faster way to turn...

The artificial intelligence sector in China has entered a new phase intensifying AI competition with the United States, as Chinese megacities launch massive subsidy programmes. At the same time, domestic firms are hoping to reduce their dependence on US technology. The stakes extend far beyond technological supremacy, with both nations viewing AI dominance as critical to future economic and strategic...

If you’ve searched anything on Google lately, chances are you’ve seen an AI overview (AIO). Formerly known as SGE, AI overviews are the succinct AI-generated summaries of information that appear right at the top of Google for a majority of search queries.While it can serve as a convenient way to get a question answered quickly without having to sift through so many options of links to click on, it...

While the development of increasingly powerful AI models grabs headlines, the big challenge is getting intelligent agents to communicate.Right now, we have all these capable systems, but they’re all speaking different languages. It’s a digital Tower of Babel, and it’s holding back the true potential of what AI can achieve.To move forward, we need a common tongue; a universal translator that will...

Anthropic has built an army of autonomous AI agents with a singular mission: to audit powerful models like Claude to improve safety.As these complex systems rapidly advance, the job of making sure they are safe and don’t harbour hidden dangers has become a herculean task. Anthropic believes it has found a solution, and it’s a classic case of fighting fire with fire.The idea is similar to a digital...

The Qwen team from Alibaba have just released a new version of their open-source reasoning AI model with some impressive benchmarks.Meet Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. Over the past three months, the Qwen team has been hard at work scaling up what they call the “thinking capability” of their AI, aiming to improve both the quality and depth of its reasoning.The result of their efforts is a model that...

The White House has released its ‘AI Action Plan’, which frames the coming decade as a technological race the US cannot afford to lose.Laced with the urgent rhetoric of a new cold war, the action plan argues that securing victory in AI is nothing short of a national imperative. Trump’s foreword sets the tone, calling for America to “achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global...

In the halls of power in Washington, OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, warned of total job losses from AI and how national security is being rewritten. Altman positions OpenAI as not just a participant, but as the essential architect of our destiny.Holding court at the Federal Reserve’s conference for large banks, Altman clearly stated how he believes AI will impact how people earn a living. He spoke of...