Updates

9 Sep 2025

New project expands AI access for African languages

The African Next Voices project recorded 9,000 hours of speech to train tools for real-life use.

9 Sep 2025

UK publishers fear Google AI summaries hit revenues

Reach and DMG Media warn Google’s AI summaries undermine journalism by removing incentives for readers to visit their sites.

9 Sep 2025

AI job losses could leave many workers behind, experts warn

Evidence shows AI job losses are reducing opportunities for recent graduates, though companies are more likely to retrain than dismiss staff.

9 Sep 2025

Meta to spend $600 billion on US data centres by 2028

Zuckerberg says Meta will deploy over one million GPUs to train advanced AI models.

9 Sep 2025

Google boosts Gemini with audio uploads and NotebookLM upgrades

Free users can upload ten minutes of audio daily, while Gemini Pro and Ultra subscribers gain three hours of uploads, enabling deeper transcription and analysis across multiple files.

9 Sep 2025

Momenta set for first European robotaxi rollout with Uber in Germany

Germany’s automotive hub Munich will host Uber’s partnership with Momenta for its inaugural European robotaxi trials.

9 Sep 2025

AI Mode in Google Search adds multilingual support to Hindi and four more languages

Gemini 2.5 powers AI Mode’s reasoning and multimodal features, making Google Search more useful across languages, rather than being restricted to English.

9 Sep 2025

Microsoft signs multi-billion-dollar AI pact with Nebius

Nebius shares jump more than 50% after sealing a $19.4 billion deal with Microsoft.

9 Sep 2025

Social media authenticity questioned as Altman points to bot-like behaviour

Reddit’s response to GPT-5 and the rise of bots highlight Altman’s concerns over social media authenticity.

9 Sep 2025

AI adoption drops at large US companies for the first time since 2023

Despite enterprise AI hype, 95 per cent of US companies report no revenue gains, while adoption among large firms shows signs of decline.