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The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025
Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, it was full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models to new features in Search and Gmail.
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Can the US really enforce a global AI chip ban?
When Huawei shocked the global tech industry with its Mate 60 Pro smartphone featuring an advanced 7-nanometer chip despite sweeping US technology restrictions, it demonstrated that innovation finds a way even under the heaviest sanctions.
OpenAI’s Codex is part of a new cohort of agentic coding tools
Last Friday, OpenAI introduced a new coding system called Codex, designed to perform complex programming tasks from natural language commands. Codex moves OpenAI into a new cohort of agentic coding tools that is just beginning to take shape.
UAE launches Arabic language AI model as Gulf race gathers pace
The United Arab Emirates launched a new Arabic language AI model on Wednesday as the regional race to develop AI technologies accelerates in the Gulf.
Applied use cases
Will Writing Survive A.I.? This Media Company Is Betting on It.
The start-up Every centered its business model on AI, and has raised $2 million from backers including Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn.
Will the AI boom fuel a global energy crisis?
As AI models get ever more complex and weave themselves into yet more parts of our lives, a massive question mark hangs in the air: can we power this revolution without costing the Earth?
Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator
Google is rolling out a new image-generating AI model, Imagen 4, that the company claims delivers higher-quality results than its previous image generator, Imagen 3.
Ethics
Study Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses
Researchers say threat from ‘jailbroken’ chatbots trained to churn out illegal information is ‘tangible and concerning’
Reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Almost four years after its creation by the UN General Assembly, Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, which serves as an advisory body to the Human Rights Council and a consultative mechanism for people of African descent and a platform for improving their safety and quality of life and livelihoods, hosted its fourth session in New York from 14-17 April 2025.
Fortnite faces complaint from actors' union over AI Darth Vader
Actor union Sag-Aftra has filed a complaint over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader in Fortnite.
Robotics
How robotics and AI are reshaping heavy industry
Many of society's heavy industries — shipbuilding, construction, offshore energy — remain analogue in a digital world. A new centre in Denmark aims to develop advanced robotic and digital solutions for heavy industry.
Giant Robotic Bugs Are Headed to Farms
Being long and skinny and wiggly is a strategy that’s been wildly successful for animals, ever since there have been animals, more or less. Roboticists, eternally jealous of biology, have taken notice of this, and have spent decades trying to build robotic versions of snakes, salamanders, worms, and more.
Robots that can climb trees or restore coral reefs
Around 100 Bachelor’s students from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering have spent two semesters working on their Focus projects in 11 teams. They will present the results of their projects on 28 May.
Research
Entanglement Meets AI in Quantum Wensors
The high precision of atomic sensors can be further enhanced by quantum correlations between atoms prepared in an entangled state through the use of artificial intelligence.
AI for modeling and understanding extreme weather and climate events
This paper reviews how AI is being used to analyze extreme climate events (like floods, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves), highlighting the importance of creating accurate, transparent, and reliable AI models.
A systematic review of LLM evaluations in clinical medicine
This systematic review examines the evaluation parameters and methodologies applied to LLMs in clinical medicine, highlighting their capabilities, limitations, and application trends.
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