Updates

21 Aug 2025

GPT-5 criticised for lacking flair as users seek older ChatGPT options

GPT-5 debuts with smart routing, but users miss the personality of older models.

21 Aug 2025

Indian firms accelerate growth through AI, Microsoft finds

Frontier firms in India are redesigning operations around human-AI collaboration, scaling productivity and innovation while turning AI’s promise into practical results for businesses.

21 Aug 2025

MIT highlights divide in business AI project success

An MIT study finds 95% of corporate AI projects fail to generate returns due to workflow integration issues.

21 Aug 2025

Google Cloud boosts AI security with agentic defence tools

AI security enhancements, including agentic SOCs, Model Armor protections, and automated Alert Investigation agents, have been revealed by Google Cloud to improve detection, response, and compliance across enterprise environments.

21 Aug 2025

Crypto executives urged UK to create national stablecoin strategy

The UK’s current definition of stablecoins is seen as misleading, with calls to recognise them as essential digital payment rails for finance.

21 Aug 2025

CBA reverses AI-driven job cuts after union pressure

CBA admits error in redundancy assessment, offers affected staff options to stay or move.

21 Aug 2025

Google to replace Assistant with Gemini in smart home devices

Google will replace Assistant with Gemini in Home devices from October, starting with an early preview.

21 Aug 2025

Rapper Bot dismantled after 370,000 global cyberattacks

Ethan Foltz, accused of running Rapper Bot as a DDoS-for-hire service, faces a possible 10-year prison sentence if found guilty.

21 Aug 2025

DeepSeek launches upgraded AI system with stronger agent capability

With the V3.1 upgrade now live and the R1 label missing, observers are debating whether DeepSeek has postponed or abandoned its R2 reasoning model entirely.

21 Aug 2025

Meta freezes hiring as AI costs spark investor concern

After months of aggressive recruitment, Meta has frozen AI hiring, citing organisational planning, as analysts warn about rising labour expenses and stock-based compensation risks.