Updates

17 Dec 2025

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with faster AI images

ChatGPT now supports advanced image creation and editing through GPT Images 1.5, offering users faster visuals, photo uploads and intuitive text prompts across web and mobile.

17 Dec 2025

Customer trust at risk as retail cyberattacks grow

As AI personalisation expands, retailers must balance innovation with data protection, strengthening cybersecurity to defend customer trust against escalating fraud and privacy risks.

17 Dec 2025

AI models reach human-level language analysis

Research shows large language models can reason about language, handle recursion and phonology, and approach the analytical abilities of human linguistics experts.

17 Dec 2025

Vietnam expands 5G and strengthens digital trust

Rapid 5G expansion places Vietnam among global broadband leaders, reinforcing digital transformation goals while policymakers address cybersecurity risks, AI driven fraud and data governance challenges.

17 Dec 2025

AI research challenges long-held assumptions about covert attention

Covert attention may be an emergent property, researchers find.

17 Dec 2025

Language models impress but miss real-world understanding

Growing concerns from Yann LeCun suggest language models impress with words but fall short on real-world reasoning, raising doubts about their role in achieving true artificial intelligence.

17 Dec 2025

Microsoft outlines how AI is shifting from tools to partners in 2026

AI adoption enters a new phase ahead of 2026 according to Microsoft.

17 Dec 2025

UK launches taskforce to boost women in tech

Industry leaders warn limited representation threatens innovation as the UK pursues ambitious AI objectives.

17 Dec 2025

Africa urged to focus on practical, local AI solutions rather than frontier models

An opinion column argues that Africa should not compete to build the largest frontier AI models, but instead focus on efficient, context-specific AI systems that address real challenges on the continent.

17 Dec 2025

Dubai Police explores AI for VIP protection

Growing adoption of AI-driven security solutions reflects Dubai Police’s strategy to enhance readiness and maintain high safety standards in complex protection environments.