The biggest AI announcements and high drama of 2025 (so far)

Trust us, if we were trying to create a complete overview of all IA news since January 2025, it would not be a list – it would be a book.

We have experienced a whole life of news from AI while industry is progressing at a frantic pace. To reduce it, we focused on the main policies, features and official announcements of companies that shape the AI ​​generator.

So let’s dive into the biggest ads of the AI ​​of the year (so far).

The best new models of 2025

The best IA companies are locked in an AI arms race, and we get new major models on a basis almost month. The new models published in 2025 include:

The $ 500 billion infrastructure plan of the Stargate Project

Two days after its inauguration, President Donald Trump underlined the accent put by his administration on AI innovation with a massive infrastructure project. The Stargate project is a $ 500 billion company led by Openai and SoftBank, with Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle to build AI supercomputers in the United States.

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However, not everyone was optimistic about the investment of $ 500 billion. “They have no money,” said Elon Musk, an Openai co-founder who continues the company for trying to change its business structure. (More about this later.)

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Deepseek R1 has made its mark on the AI ​​industry

While the United States has announced its intention to pay hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, a Chinese company called Deepseek has built its R1 model for only $ 6 million. The real material cost is estimated much more (perhaps more than $ 500 million), because Deepseek only declared the rental price of its NVIDIA GPU. But the fact that Deepseek was able to create a model of reasoning as good as the Openai models, despite limited access to GPUs, was sufficient to shock the AI ​​industry.

Technological actions have taken a hit, and Trump said the moment a “alarm clock” for American technological companies, while the Chinese competitor has created a new precedent for the AI ​​global arms race.

The executive order of Trump puts education at AI in schools from kindergarten to 12th year

The promotion of AI innovation was a major theme of the Trump presidency. And in April, Trump made AI education in schools an official priority with a decree. The mandate orders the federal agencies to implement literacy and the competence of AI in kindergarten schools to the 12th year and the programs to reduce educators and professionals concerned.

The decree aims to prepare future generations to acquire the skills necessary for a world increasingly focused on AI. Meanwhile, schools are struggling to navigate the use of AI tools as a chatgpt in class, which led to a crawling cheat problem. This is to say, the ability of AI to stimulate productivity and give the United States a competitive advantage while hindering learning and critical thinking is a delicate dichotomy that has taken root in the education system.

OPENAI U-Tour business structure

Openai was a capped profit, governed by a non -profit board of directors. Then, he tried to convert to a fully for -profit lucrative company, which raised alarm ringtates from AI leaders like Geoffrey Hinton and former Openai employees who warned the consequences in an open letter.

The proposed restructuring “would eliminate essential guarantees”, they explained, “effectively putting the control and benefits of the most powerful technology ever created for a for-profit entity with legal duties to prioritize shareholders’ yields.”

In the end, Openai reversed the course … in a way. Instead, the Chatgpt manufacturer announced in May that there would be governed by a non -profit board of directors but would convert its for -profit subsidiary into a public service company (PBC), a for -profit business structure which legally requires that the company “examines the interests of shareholders and the mission,” legally indicated the announcement.

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However, this new plan has been criticized by the same group and others which have declared that the new structure still allows OPENAI to write profits before its altruistic mission, because the non -profit board of directors would now become a shareholder having a direct interest in the success of the company.

Pope Leo XIV has a lot to say about the impact of AI on humanity

A few days after the choice of Pope Leo XIV as head of the Catholic Church, he called the AI ​​industry. The new pope has spoken of “developments in the field of artificial intelligence which pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and work”, in its first cardinal address, transmitting a powerful message on its priorities. His choice of name even pays tribute to a previous Pope, Leo XIII, who pleaded for social justice and the reform of work during the industrial revolution.

Pope Leo XIV continued to talk about the misdeeds of AI. “We must not forget that artificial intelligence works as a tool for the good of human beings-not to decrease them, not to replace them,” he said at a June conference on the governance and ethics of AI in Rome. Technology and religion do not always coincide, but Leo XIV has clearly indicated that the impact of AI is also a spiritual problem.

The AI ​​AI report had a “pre-publication” impact

One day after the American copyright office published a “pre-publication version” of its highly anticipated report on the use of copyright protected works for the training of AI models, director Shira Perlmutter was dismissed by President Trump. Perlmutter’s brutal dismissal immediately sparked speculation, people wondered if she knew she was dismissed and rushed to publish a version of the report, or if she was dismissed because She published the report, or something entirely unrelated.

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We do not know what happened, but what is clear is that the copyright office was generally favorable to copyright holders. “”[M]A commercial use of vast treasures of works protected by copyright to produce expressive content that competes with them on the existing markets, in particular when accomplished thanks to illegal access, goes beyond the limits of the established flaw, “said the report.

The AI ​​Deepfake porn bill has become federal law

Ai Deepfake Porn is now a federal crime. The Take It Down law was promulgated on May 19, which makes it a criminal act to publish or threaten to publish intimate non -consensual imaging (NCII), which is increasingly including Deepfakes generated by AI. The act of resumption of the congress crossed the congress fairly quickly, with bipartite support. The widespread availability of the generator AI has made the creation of Fakefakes Deep for harmful purposes with concern, which ultimately attracted the attention of the legislators.

But digital rights defense groups have criticized the bill to be too wide and the risk of false positives. “The services will be based on automated filters, which are sadly frank tools. They frequently report legal content, comments for fair use to reports,” said the Electronic Frontier (EFF) foundation which added that the bill may have good intentions, but should not “invent new withdrawal regimes that are ripe for abuses”.

Google AI mode marks a new research era

The evolution of Google Search from a list of blue links to a search engine powered in AI is in manufacturing for some time now. But at Google E / S of this year, the technology giant made it official with the public launch of IA mode. The new Google search tool is a chatbot interface that is marketed as an alternative to the traditional search for search page (now teeming with previews generated by AI and summaries of related requests).

As a supreme holder of the search engines market, the IA mode introduction by Google represents a fundamental change in the way people find information online. Users were already turning to the perplexity of the AI ​​or AI search engine, as is the quality of Google search results has worsened. Google’s solution was to rely on the research features fueled by AI to compete more directly, despite known hallucination problems and alienating publishers who say that the new AI research features are in the process of sunbathing their traffic.

Openai and Jony Ive team up to build a companion ai

The future of AI is without screen, according to Sam Altman and Jony Ive. In May, Openai announced the acquisition of the company of Jony Ive and plans to develop an AI device together. OPENAI will try to succeed where others have failed: to create a device that has evolved beyond the phone and computer screens that experience the world like you, becoming the companion of the ultimate.

The details are still rare, but a recording disclosed during an internal meeting describes it as a “third central device that a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone”. More recently, any mention of the Jony Io Io startup was cleaned from the Openai site after a brand trial was filed by the head of headphones supplied by AI Iyo. But Openai says that the partnership is still in progress.

Mark Zuckerberg makes a shopping trip

Recently, the New York Times have reported that the meta-PDG Mark Zuckerberg offers $ 100 million contracts To poach the key talents far from Openai and other competitors. Speak TimesZuckerberg continues “divine technology” and super-intelligent AI. The founder of Facebook is aware that Meta is lagging behind his rivals in the AI ​​race, and he is determined to build an AI supergroup.

Disney enters the Battle of AI copy rights

Many copyright actions against AI companies have been deposited by journalists and artists. Recently, Meta and Anthropic have won copyright combinations against the authors. However, this summer, a new fearsome fighter has entered the legal battle of AI Copyright: The House of Mouse. Disney continued the IA Midjourney images generator, one of the dozens of AI -centered proceedings and the copyright law. The Disney costume calls Midjourney a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April, filed a complaint against Openai, alleging that it has violated Ziff Davis Copyrights in the training and exploitation of its AI systems.