AI News 15 June 2025 - 5 July 2025

Black Box AI Exposed: Hidden Algorithms, Risks, and Breakthroughs in 2025

In May 2024, Anthropic disclosed a fundamental breakthrough mapping millions of human-interpretable concepts inside its Claude large language model, offering the first detailed inside look at a modern AI. The European Union’s AI Act took effect in 2024, requiring high-risk AI systems to be transparent and explainable, with penalties up to €30 million or 6% of global turnover for violations. A real-world case saw an insurance company’s fraud-detection AI flag loyal customers as fraudsters, creating a “customer relations nightmare” until the model’s flaws were discovered. In 2019, the Apple Card algorithm sparked a gender-bias controversy when women were offered significantly

5 July 2025

AI·Technology

Hailuo AI – The Viral Video Generator Shaking Up 2025 Content Creation

In June 2025, MiniMax’s Hailuo released the Hailuo-02 model that sparked the Cat Olympics trend with viral clips of cats performing Olympic dives. The Hailuo-02 model delivers native 1080p HD video output (1920×1080) with 5–10 second clips and richer scene dynamics via prompt-based camera effects. Hailuo originated as a free research demo in 2024 and by mid-2025 shifted to a credit-based freemium model offering a one-time welcome pack of 500 credits plus daily login credits. On June 18, 2025, Hailuo introduced paid subscriptions including Standard, Pro, and Master; Standard is about $14.9 per month and includes 1,000 credits monthly, with

5 July 2025

AI·Innovation

PixVerse AI is Taking Over 2025 – The Revolutionary Video Generator Shaking Up Content Creation

PixVerse released V4 in February 2025 and V4.5 on May 15, 2025, adding cinematic camera controls and a multi-element fusion system. The mobile PixVerse app rose to #1 in the US App Store’s Photo & Video category and #4 overall within days of the V4.5 launch. In June 2025, PixVerse launched Pai I, a Chinese version with a Chinese-language app and website powered by the V4.5 algorithms. PixVerse announced the Content Partnership Program (CCP) in January 2025 to give influencers early access, extra credits, and promotional support. By March 2025 PixVerse had over 15 million monthly active users and more

5 July 2025

AI·Technology

AI News Today: Regulation, Innovation, and Societal Impact / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

The EU’s AI Act is moving forward without delays, with general-purpose AI obligations beginning in August 2024 and high-risk models following in August 2026, with penalties up to 7% of global revenue. More than 45 European CEOs signed open letters urging a two-year pause, warning that overly complex regulation could hinder Europe’s global competitiveness and stifle innovation. OpenAI and Oracle signed a major deal to secure 4.5 GW of data-center capacity for AI projects as part of the Stargate initiative. Nvidia’s market cap surged to about $3.92 trillion, nearly $4 trillion, driven by demand for AI chips. The Velvet Sundown,

5 July 2025

AI·Innovation·Regulation·Technology

Google Gemini’s 2025 Takeover: How Google’s AI Powerhouse Stacks Up Against GPT-4, Claude & More

Gemini Ultra scored 90.0% on the MMLU academic exam and 59.4% on the MMMU multimodal benchmark, becoming the first AI to surpass human experts on MMLU and achieving top results on 30 of 32 benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is Google’s largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, with final testing including external red-teaming and a broader release planned for 2025. In late 2024 Bard switched to a fine-tuned Gemini Pro, dramatically improving Bard’s reasoning and planning abilities. The Pixel 8 Pro uses Gemini Nano on-device to power Recorder auto-summarization and Gboard smart replies, with Android 14 introducing AICore to

3 July 2025

AI·Comparison·Technology

Janitor AI: The Unfiltered Chatbot Revolution Hooking Millions (and Stirring Controversy)

Janitor AI was founded by Australian software developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023. In its first weeks, Janitor AI attracted over 1 million users within a week or two of launch. By September 2023, the platform had amassed around 3 million users, having hit the 1-million mark in 17 days. As of early 2024, more than 70% of its users were female, reflecting a romance/roleplay demographic skew. In July 2023, OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist and cut off Janitor AI’s access to the GPT API. After losing OpenAI access, Janitor AI rebuilt on-premise with hundreds of GPUs and launched

3 July 2025

AI·Social Media·Technology

AI-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

A viral AI deepfake song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of streams before Universal Music Group demanded its removal. In June 2024, the RIAA and the Big Three labels (UMG, Sony, Warner) sued Suno and Udio for alleged en masse copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work. Google opened public access to MusicLM via its AI Test Kitchen in mid-2023, and MusicLM was trained on about 280,000 hours of music. Meta released MusicGen under the Audiocraft project in 2023, trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music and able to

2 July 2025

AI·Innovation·Technology

AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

MrBeast removed the $80/month AI thumbnail generator on Viewstats after backlash and replaced it with a directory of real thumbnail artists, while he has 385+ million subscribers. Denmark unveiled legislation to grant individuals copyright over their face and voice, with about 90% of MPs backing the bill and it heading to Parliament in autumn. AI-focused tokens slumped about 29% in the last 30 days, with TAO down ~29%, NEAR down ~27%, FET down ~26%, RNDR down ~33%, even as Nvidia stock hit record highs. Anthropic’s Claude ran a month-long “Project Vend” in its San Francisco office, managing a snack shop,

28 June 2025

AI·News·Social Media·Technology

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5 is expected to launch in summer 2025 and is reportedly materially better than GPT-4. Midjourney unveiled its first text-to-video system, Model V1, producing 16-second videos with advanced motion and style control in June 2025. China’s MiniMax released the M1 large model as an open-source Apache 2.0-licensed challenger claiming cutting-edge performance with far less computing power. Meta’s next-generation LLaMA 4 Behemoth was delayed to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action model that runs entirely on robots with on-board processing and can be fine-tuned with as few as

28 June 2025

AI·Future Trends·Innovation·Technology

AI and the Transformation of Web Search (2024–2030)

Google introduced the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in 2023–2024, using the Gemini AI model to produce top-of-page AI overviews with citations. After limited trials, Google rolled out AI overviews to all U.S. users in 2024 and aims to reach over a billion people by year’s end, with ads remaining separate and publisher traffic preserved. Gemini’s multimodal abilities enable searches by image or video, including experiments where a user can upload a video clip and the AI analyzes it to troubleshoot a device. Microsoft launched Bing with a GPT-4-powered chat in early 2023, integrated via the Prometheus framework to use the

18 June 2025

AI·Digital Transformation

ChatGPT vs the World: Inside Today’s Top AI Language Models

ChatGPT reached 100 million users in January 2023, making it the fastest-growing consumer app in history. GPT-4 is rumored to have around 1.76 trillion parameters across eight Mixture-of-Experts models. Claude 2 offers up to 100,000 tokens of context and uses Constitutional AI to encourage harmless, helpful behavior. Gemini Ultra reportedly exceeded 90% on the MMLU benchmark, edging past human expert level. Gemini 1.5 introduced a 1,000,000-token context window for long-input reasoning. LLaMA 3.1 includes a 405-billion-parameter model and adds vision-enabled variants, making it the largest openly available LLM family. Mixtral 8×7B uses an 8-expert MoE with 46.7B total parameters but

16 June 2025

AI·Artificial Intelligence·Technology

How AI is Reshaping the Future of Warfare – What You Need to Know Now

The 2017 U.S. Department of Defense project Maven was launched to apply AI-based computer vision to analyze drone surveillance footage in the Middle East, with fielding by year’s end. In 2019, China released its National Defense White Paper announcing the goal of “intelligentized warfare” and a plan to become the world AI leader by 2030. The United States established the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in 2018 to coordinate AI across the DoD, with Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) linking sensors to shooters in real time. In 2020, DARPA’s AlphaDogfight Trials saw an AI agent defeat a human F-16

15 June 2025

AI·Defense·Technology

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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 07.02.2026

7 February 2026

LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: February 7, 2026, 12:00 AM ESTUpdated: February 7, 2026, 12:58 AM EST Crude Oil Prices Rise on Dollar Weakness, Geopolitical Tensions February 7, 2026, 12:52 AM EST. Crude oil prices edged higher on Friday, supported by a weaker U.S. dollar and escalating geopolitical risks in the Middle East. March WTI crude gained 0.41%, rebounding from early losses, while gasoline prices rose 1.38%. Doubts over a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal loom after reports of Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment, raising the risk of military action and potential disruption of vital shipping routes. Additionally, a surge in U.S. consumer

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026

Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026

Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026

Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.