AI tool launches, product updates and industry moves.
On October 29, 2025, Character.AI banned users under 18 from free-form chatbot conversations, responding to teen-suicide lawsuits and regulatory pressure.
Cursor released 2.0 on October 29, 2025, debuting Composer — its first frontier model, 4x faster than similarly intelligent models.
On October 28, 2025, OpenAI completed its historic restructure into OpenAI Group PBC, clearing its fundraising constraints.
OpenAI released Atlas, a browser with ChatGPT built in, on October 21, 2025 — joining Perplexity's Comet in making the browser the new AI-entry battleground.
Figure AI unveiled Figure 03 in October 2025 — designed for Helix, the home and scale — now deployed at BMW's Spartanburg plant.
Tesla began rolling out FSD (Supervised) V14 in October 2025, adding Speed Profiles and Arrival Options — but a driver must still supervise.
At DevDay on October 6, 2025, OpenAI shipped AgentKit and the Apps SDK, and opened Sora 2 and GPT-5 Pro via API — a full platform play.
OpenAI released the Sora 2 model and a social app on September 30, 2025, letting users cameo themselves and friends in AI videos — topping the App Store at launch.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 on September 29, 2025, billing it as the world's best coding model with sharply higher long-task autonomy.
Alibaba released Qwen3-Max on September 24, 2025 — its largest model ever at over 1 trillion parameters — alongside Nvidia partnership news.
Suno launched v5 on September 23, 2025, touting more immersive audio and authentic vocals, alongside its generative DAW, Suno Studio.
On September 22, 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI signed an LOI to deploy at least 10GW of Nvidia systems, with Nvidia investing up to $100 billion as each gigawatt lands.
At Connect on September 17, 2025, Zuckerberg unveiled the first Ray-Ban glasses with a display, paired with an EMG neural wristband.
In September 2025 OpenAI signed a five-year, $300 billion compute contract with Oracle starting in 2027, sending Oracle shares soaring.
In September 2025, lithography giant ASML led Mistral's Series C with €1.3 billion, making the French startup Europe's most valuable AI company.
In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to pay about $3,000 per book across ~500,000 books — the first major settlement over AI training data.
On September 2, 2025, Anthropic closed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ at a $183 billion valuation, with run-rate revenue up from $1B to $5B+.
China's four-agency Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Content took effect, requiring explicit and implicit labels on all AI-generated text, images and video.
Google released the image-editing model codenamed Nano Banana on August 26, 2025; the 3D-figurine craze swept global social media.
On August 12, 2025, Perplexity — itself worth a fraction of the price — made an unsolicited all-cash offer for Google Chrome amid the antitrust remedies fight.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, calling it its 'smartest, fastest, most useful model yet,' with built-in thinking available to free users.
DeepMind announced Genie 3 on August 5, 2025 — real-time interactive 3D environments from text prompts, billed as a stepping stone to AGI.
OpenAI released the gpt-oss-120b and 20b open-weight reasoning models on August 5, 2025 — its first open weights since GPT-2.
The EU AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024; prohibitions applied from February 2025 and GPAI obligations from August 2025.