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The early months of 2025 saw a defining moment in the mobile AI race: consumer downloads clustered around a handful of multimodal assistants, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, China‑origin DeepSeek, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot capturing headline attention and shaping how millions now use AI on...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains the most-used chatbot worldwide, but recent telemetry shows Google’s Gemini and a shifting roster of rivals are steadily chipping away at the incumbent’s once unassailable lead. Background / Overview The generative‑AI landscape in 2025 is no longer a two‑player sprint...

ChatGPT has quietly become a daily habit for many Filipinos: a new global survey finds that roughly four in ten internet users in the Philippines used ChatGPT in the past month, placing the country among the world’s heaviest adopters of conversational AI—but the headline numbers hide important...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT still sits at the top of the chatbot mountain, but the plateau is shifting: competitors are chipping away at market share, new viral features are driving rapid adoption for rivals, and the generative-AI landscape is moving from a one‑horse race to a crowded, fast‑moving contest...

Spotify’s quiet pairing with ChatGPT has turned what used to be a fiddly, hour‑long playlist hunt into a single conversational workflow — mention the mood, era, or vibe, tap to connect your account, and a curated playlist appears in your Spotify library ready to stream. Background / Overview...

OpenAI’s DevDay announcements this October didn’t just add new features to ChatGPT — they repositioned the product as a runtime, distribution channel, and commerce surface that together look very much like an “AI operating system” for third‑party apps, agents, and transactions. Background /...

Mercedes-Benz’s move to wire ChatGPT into its MBUX voice assistant and invite more than 900,000 U.S. customers into a three‑month beta test marks a high‑profile leap in the race to put generative AI inside the cabin — and it lays bare the technical, safety, privacy and commercial trade‑offs...

As South Africa’s Class of 2025 moves into the final stretch of its National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, educators and students are reaching for a new set of study tools: generative artificial intelligence. Local reporting from The Citizen quotes Centennial Schools’ director of academics...

AI has moved from an experimental novelty to a default tool in British lecture theatres and student workflows — and a new YouGov survey shows that the change is already reshaping how undergraduates study, submit assessments, and think about their careers. The headline figures are simple but...

The image of a senior Xbox producer advising laid-off colleagues to “lean on AI” for emotional support crystallized a moment that many in tech already felt: the tools companies are using to reshape work are now being pitched as a balm for the wounds they helped inflict. Within hours of a...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...

A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to...

OpenAI's announcement that it will build an AI-powered jobs platform and a linked certification program marks a decisive expansion from conversational agents into workforce services — an initiative that could directly challenge Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, reshape hiring economics, and accelerate...

Comscore’s latest dataset signals a decisive shift: consumers are moving many AI assistant interactions off desktops and onto phones, with mobile reach rising to 73.4 million users in the March–June window while PC usage declined — a trend driven by rapid mobile gains for Microsoft Copilot...

Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...

Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...

ChatGPT users around the world woke up to blank responses and error messages on September 2–3, 2025, as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot experienced a partial outage that left thousands frustrated and underlined the operational risks of relying on a single AI provider for critical workflows...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...

The free-AI chat landscape in 2025 looks like a crowded toolbox: established giants, specialist niche services, open-source experiments, and aggregator front-ends all compete to deliver the best free AI chat experience for work, study, creativity, or companionship. A widely circulated roundup—an...

Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...