— "By 2030, they could use ?more power than all but five countries — and enough water to meet the basic needs ?of all 1.3 billion residents of sub-Saharan Africa for an entire year," he said. His speech (via Reuters) also included the launch of the UN's AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, which offers AI companies the opportunity to publicly disclose water, the environmental impacts of their water usage, carbon emissions, and land use.
— An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career starters in 2025 was just under a third lower than the average for the period before generative AI arrived, according to a study published on Wednesday by the recruitment portal Jobs.ch.
— Engineers comprised 55% of all new hires in 2025 across the 12 companies SignalFire classifies as "Tech Majors" — a significant jump from 2019, when engineers represented only 46% of new recruits, according to the report. The continued need for engineers was even more evident at early-stage startups, which collectively brought on 7% more engineers in 2025 than they did in 2019.
— The current edition of the FIFA World Cup features a sensor-fitted ball, real-time tracking, artificial intelligence-assisted offside calls, and an AI assistant for each of the 48 teams. Teams today may have in-house data analysts and scientists with doctorates in physics, mathematics, or machine learning and AI experience; data vendors whose workers specialize in player tracking and turning raw video into data; and video platforms that record and tag matches.
— The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls today warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital technologies absent meaningful regulation may deepen existing gender inequalities and create new risks for the human rights of women and girls worldwide.
— "AI and digital technologies are reshaping the conditions under which women and girls exercise their rights," the Working Group said. "Without deliberate, gender-responsive governance, these systems risk amplifying exclusion, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and exacerbating structural inequalities."
— The Working Group identified three urgent preconditions for achieving substantive gender equality in the digital age: closing the digital divide, harnessing AI and digital technologies to bolster rather than undermine women's and girls' human rights, and promoting their meaningful participation and leadership in public and political life. The experts also echoed calls for multilateral dialogue on AI redlines. They expressed alarm about some of the most extreme harms, including the gendered impact of AI in armed conflict and lethal autonomous weapons, climate change, mass surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. "These harms are not hypothetical, they are already being felt around the world," the Working Group said, stressing that intersecting forms of marginalisation are regularly mirrored and exacerbated by AI.
— They also underscored the potential of AI to advance gender equality, including by expanding access to education, healthcare, financial services, and justice — if developed responsibly and inclusively.
— OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model tricked the judges into thinking it was the human 73% of the time. LLaMa-3.1-405B performed just above chance at 56%, while the other two models were much less successful, with ELIZA at 23% and GPT-4o at 21%.
— TechRadar: The feature isn't live yet, and Meta claims it may never be, but reactions to it are largely negative. "Not only do you need to worry about being photographed or filmed by people's glasses, but that they could identify you just by looking at you."
— Using the AI detection tool Pangram, one analyst found that certain passages of the document were estimated to be anywhere between 40 per cent and fully AI-generated. Another researcher reportedly analysed the text chapter by chapter and found that nearly two-thirds of the first chapter was flagged as AI-written.
— Days after OpenAI's paper, US mathematician Will Sawin followed the same line of reasoning to an improved result. Also last week, a team from Google DeepMind used one of their own models to resolve nine lesser open problems left.
— Britain applied banking-style sanctions to crypto exchanges for the first time, requiring U.K. financial firms to freeze funds and trace transactions. Sanctions target Russia's "illicit financial infrastructure", focusing on the A7 payments network, which officials say moved over $90B for military support.
— "For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids," OpenAI wrote on X. "An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better." Guardian: "The startup has been tripped up before by its attempts to solve Erdos's problems, having hailed a supposed breakthrough last year that was in fact based on already existing literature absorbed by the model. This time, OpenAI's work has been validated by mathematicians, including Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who maintains the Erdos problems website and criticised OpenAI's prior Erdos claims."
— "By responsibly integrating AI powered tools to help accelerate progress and reimagine learning, we are pairing Google's technology with UNICEF's deep expertise in building education systems to ensure every student has the tools they need to succeed. Over the next three years, UNICEF will work with local communities to build localized, scalable solutions that meet the needs of learners — from training teachers to use Gemini and NotebookLM for personalized instruction, to using ReadAlong to support learners foundational reading fluency and comprehension through guided practice."
— Notably absent from the list is AI company Anthropic, after its public dispute and legal fight with the Trump administration over the ethics and safety of AI usage in war.
— Some industry analysts speculate the stance may also be a reaction to the completion of a performance by Val Kilmer, who died in 2025, using AI technology.
— Less than 15% of crypto projects have taken meaningful steps to appear in AI-generated answers, and the gap between who AI recommends and who deserves to be recommended widens every quarter.
— Moneywise: According to Anthropic's security team (6), Mythos has already identified thousands of previously unknown, aka "zero-day," vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. Among the discoveries: a flaw in OpenBSD — widely regarded as one of the most secure operating systems available — that had gone undetected for 27 years, and a bug in the video processor FFmpeg that survived five million automated security tests without being caught, per Quartz. What makes Mythos especially worrying to regulators is not just that it can find these flaws, but that it can link multiple vulnerabilities together autonomously to construct working exploits.
— Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company.
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