September 26, 2025

AI

Executives pushing AI without strategy face a fault line, as 42 % overstate promises but only 36 % see realistic gains. Their half‑baked projects drain £1‑10 m, while realistic leaders invest similarly in training, culture, and responsible use.

The United Nations has recognized artificial intelligence as a global threat alongside climate change and nuclear weapons, sparking debates on regulation and ethics, while Italy's sweeping AI regulations aim to balance innovation with control amidst corporate push for global deployment.

US tech giants Amazon and Google are advising H-1B visa holders to cancel travel plans due to a new $100,000-a-year fee introduced by President Trump, while rival European countries court foreign workers with more favorable policies.

Chrome DevTools MCP, announced September 2025, lets AI assistants become live web debuggers by exposing Chrome’s DevTools Protocol via an open Model Context Protocol server. Clients like Cursor and Claude can navigate pages, inspect DOM, capture performance, and verify fixes.

Google’s new Data Commons MCP server lets agents ask natural‑language questions, retrieve time‑series, and generate reports, eliminating glue code. With PyPI, Gemini‑CLI, and ADK agents, it offers registry discovery, provenance, and seamless analytics, exemplified by ONE Campaign’s health‑financing queries.

DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 turns robots into assistants that sort laundry and choose clothing, mining online recycling rules and sharing knowledge across networks. Workflow automation trials showcase a broader agentic AI shift threatening up to 60 % of jobs in economies.

Nvidia’s Audio2Face converts voice recordings into realistic 3‑D facial animations, letting developers add expressions and lip sync to avatars in games, apps, and live streams. It maps acoustic features to animation data and offers models, SDKs, and a fine‑tuning framework.

Google Sheets now features Gemini AI, drafting, explaining, and correcting formulas directly. In a wedding guest‑list test, it fixed mislabelled data, suggested alternative functions, and supplied a Haversine formula for distance, showcasing AI’s spreadsheet-cleaning power.

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Business with shared project management, smarter connectors, and tighter compliance tooling—audit logs, data policies, user permissions—empowering teams to collaborate securely across departments while integrating diverse external tools more easily.

Microsoft’s Windows ML on Windows 11 24H2 enables developers to run local AI using GPUs, NPUs, or CPUs through a unified abstraction layer. Adobe, McAfee, and Topaz Labs already integrate it, improving responsiveness, privacy, and cost efficiency.

A new preview of ChatGPT Pulse for Pro users launches on mobile, presenting a proactive research feature that releases personalized updates drawn from users’ conversations, feedback, and linked services such as calendar apps.

A step‑by‑step guide demonstrates building a high‑performance computer‑vision workflow in Google Colab using TorchVision v2’s new transform API and MixUp/CutMix augmentations. It covers library setup, augmentation pipeline, lightweight CNN with attention, AdamW training, OneCycleLR scheduler, and validation visualizations.

MIT developed CRESt, a multimodal robot platform that blends LLMs, Bayesian optimization, and high‑throughput experiments to accelerate materials discovery; it discovered an eight‑element catalyst achieving 9.3‑fold power density per dollar while cutting precious‑metal use, and monitors reproducibility via computer vision.

OpenAI’s GDPval‑v0 replaces synthetic data with real‑world occupational tasks, evaluating large language models across 44 professions—from legal research to software engineering—by benchmarked expert standards, revealing performance gaps in productivity and profitability.

Deepfakes now dominate news: a hyper‑realistic Trump clip in South Park, India’s political scandals, OpenAI’s Sora, and Meta’s Vibes feed blur satire and sabotage, prompting White House, IBC2025, and journalists to fear an info‑apocalypse.

Hallwood Media partnered with lyricist Nikki Jones after a $3 million deal to boost R&B star Xania Monet, whose Spotify hits exceed 1 million streams and Instagram Reels surpass 100 k views—yet her synthetic tracks remain uncopyrightable without human authorship.