Tech News How bad are AI data centres' carbon footprint? AI systems could produce 80 million tons of CO₂ in 2025 and as much water as the world’s bottled water industry. But it’s hard to measure as tech companies do not release all of the details. 20/12/2025
Culture news Disney deal with OpenAI brings Mickey Mouse to Sora AI video tool OpenAI said the agreement with Walt Disney was part of a push to ensure the rights of creators in the generative AI space - amid growing concerns over copyright, deepfakes and misinformation. 12/12/2025
Business Mickey Mouse meets ChatGPT: Disney signs short video deal with OpenAI Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI to let the firm's video generation tool produce short videos featuring more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters. 11/12/2025
Culture news TIME Person of the Year 2025 announced – and it’s not a person This is not the first time the magazine has picked a non-human as its Person of the Year, and 2025's choice reflects the domination of AI in news, public debate, as well as modern anxieties surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence. 11/12/2025
Markets Oracle shares fall as bubble fears return, hitting wider tech stocks The cloud computing giant missed revenue expectations, as well as announcing an increase in its planned spending on AI data centres. 11/12/2025
Business OpenAI awards millions to nonprofits under new foundation structure OpenAI was formed as a nonprofit in 2015 but then incorporated a for-profit subsidiary that has grown to be one of the most valuable start-ups in the world. 04/12/2025
Business Anthropic considers IPO preparations as AI rivalry intensifies The developer of the Claude AI assistant is preparing its corporate structure for a possible public listing, with reports suggesting it has brought in Wilson Sonsini to guide early-stage IPO planning. 03/12/2025
Tech News No AI company has plan to control superintelligence, study shows Eight leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, do not have credible plans to prevent catastrophic AI risks, a new study shows. 03/12/2025
Tech News Mistral releases new AI models, rivals US with multiple languages “Mistral Large 3 was trained on a wide variety of languages, making advanced AI useful for billions who speak different native languages,” the company said. 02/12/2025
Tech News AI could undo decades of development gains, UN report warns Women and the youth are the most at risk of AI taking their jobs, and of the technology being biased against them. 02/12/2025
Tech News Poetry can trick AI into ignoring safety rules, new research shows Across 25 leading AI models, 62% of poetic prompts produced unsafe responses, with some models responding to nearly all of them. 01/12/2025
Tech News OpenAI confirms ChatGPT data breach. Here is everything we know OpenAI has confirmed a security breach involving a third-party analytics provider, Mixpanel. 27/11/2025
Tech News OpenAI denies ChatGPT caused teenager’s suicide The AI giant said the teenager should not have been using the technology without parental consent and should not have bypassed ChatGPT’s protective measures. 26/11/2025
Tech News OpenAI rolls out shopping tool on ChatGPT in time for Black Friday The company said the new feature will be available to all logged-in users with nearly unlimited usage through the holidays. 25/11/2025
Tech News Keeping talent is Europe’s biggest AI challenge, warns H Company CEO The French AI startup’s Gautier Cloix told Euronews Next that while Europe can't compete with US giants on large language models, he believes the continent can succeed with AI agents. 21/11/2025
Tech News OpenAI, X and other major sites down amid Cloudflare outage Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure that powers many of today’s online websites. 18/11/2025
Tech News Watchdog group calls on OpenAI to scrap AI video app Sora The group is raising alarm about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt. 12/11/2025
Tech News OpenAI faces new lawsuits claiming ChatGPT caused mental health crises OpenAI called the cases 'incredibly heartbreaking' and said it was reviewing the court filings to understand the details. 07/11/2025
Culture news 'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year by Collins Dictionary “Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using AI, has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025. 06/11/2025
Business OpenAI and Amazon sign $38 billion deal for AI computing power OpenAI and Amazon have signed a $38 billion agreement enabling the ChatGPT creator to run its artificial intelligence systems on Amazon’s data centres in the US. 04/11/2025