Top 10 AI News
Britain boosts computing power in $1.3 billion AI drive
Reuters, September 17, 2025
Britain announced a £1 billion (≈$1.34 billion) plan to upgrade its computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The initiative, unveiled at London Tech Week with Nvidia’s CEO, will integrate advanced supercomputers and create a national AI research resource, aiming to greatly boost compute power for AI research and applications ([www.reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-boosts-computing-power-13-billion-ai-drive-2025-07-17/#:~:text=Britain%20has%20announced%20a%20%C2%A31,alongside%20Nvidia%20CEO%20Jensen%20Huang)).
Amazon refreshes device lineup for AI-enabled Alexa+
Reuters, September 30, 2025
At a New York event, Amazon unveiled updated Echo speakers, Fire TVs, a Kindle e-reader, and new Ring security cameras, all designed to work with an enhanced Alexa+ AI assistant. The devices feature upgraded chips for faster performance and are part of Amazon’s push to make Alexa a more conversational, profitable AI platform ([www.reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-refreshes-device-lineup-alexa-ai-home-security-2025-09-30/#:~:text=Amazon%20unveiled%20an%20updated%20lineup,with%20artificial%20intelligence%2C%20offers%20improved)).
California enacts sweeping AI safety law
AP News, September 29, 2025
California’s governor signed landmark legislation imposing safety rules on high-power AI systems. The law requires companies to implement and publicize safety protocols for advanced AI (e.g. to prevent bioweapon misuse) and to report incidents within 15 days. Violations carry fines up to $1 million, and the act includes whistleblower protections and funding for public AI research ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/9f888a7cbaa57a7dec9e210785b83280#:~:text=On%20September%2029%2C%202025%2C%20California,million%2C%20and%20the%20law%20includes)).
ChatGPT now lets users shop on Etsy and Shopify
AP News, September 30, 2025
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot added a new feature allowing users to make purchases directly from Etsy, with Shopify integration coming soon. This expansion into e-commerce lets users buy items during a chat session, marking a push by OpenAI to create new revenue streams through AI-driven shopping experiences.
OpenAI adds parental controls to ChatGPT
AP News, September 29, 2025
OpenAI introduced new parental controls for ChatGPT to improve teen safety. Parents and teens must link accounts via invites, allowing parents to monitor chatbot interactions and filter content. The move responds to concerns about AI chatbots’ mental-health impacts on minors, aligning with regulatory scrutiny of AI and children’s welfare ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/1e7169772a24147b4c04d13c76700aeb#:~:text=OpenAI%20has%20introduced%20parental%20controls,Once)).
AI system learns from diverse data and discovers new materials
Adam Zewe, MIT News, September 25, 2025
MIT researchers unveiled CRESt (Copilot for Real-world Experimental Scientists), an AI platform that analyzes scientific data and runs lab experiments to find new materials. CRESt can take user queries (e.g. “perform image analysis on SEM images”), suggest material recipes, and control automated equipment. The system aims to solve longstanding energy-materials challenges by optimizing materials discovery through AI-driven experimentation ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-system-learns-many-types-scientific-information-and-runs-experiments-discovering-new-materials-0925#:~:text=The%20new%20%E2%80%9CCRESt%E2%80%9D%20platform%20could,and%20engineering%20community%20for%20decades)) ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-system-learns-many-types-scientific-information-and-runs-experiments-discovering-new-materials-0925#:~:text=September%2025%2C%202025)).
New MIT AI helps annotate medical images rapidly
Adam Zewe, MIT News, September 25, 2025
A team at MIT developed an AI tool that automatically annotates medical images, dramatically speeding up tasks like outlining tumors or lesions. By quickly identifying areas of interest in scans, the system helps clinicians study new treatments and track disease progression more efficiently, potentially accelerating clinical research and patient diagnosis ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-ai-system-could-accelerate-clinical-research-0925#:~:text=By%20enabling%20rapid%20annotation%20of,treatments%20or%20map%20disease%20progression)) ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-ai-system-could-accelerate-clinical-research-0925#:~:text=Adam%20Zewe%20)).
Improving the workplace of the future
Benjamin Daniel, MIT News, September 24, 2025
Whitney Zhang (PhD student) examines how AI and organizational choices will reshape labor markets. By studying technology adoption and management in startups and large companies, Zhang’s work sheds light on how automation and AI-driven workflows could impact workers and productivity in the coming decades.
MIT affiliates win AI-for-Math grants to boost discovery
Sandi Miller, MIT News, September 22, 2025
MIT mathematicians David Roe and Andrew Sutherland, among others, received new federal grants for “AI for Math” to accelerate mathematical discovery. The project funds automated theorem-proving research and other AI tools to tackle hard math problems faster. The initiative awarded over $6 million to several MIT alumni and collaborators working on AI-assisted mathematics ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-for-math-grants-accelerate-mathematical-discovery-0922#:~:text=Department%20of%20Mathematics%20researchers%20David,additional%20MIT%20alumni%20also%20awarded)).
New AI tool SCIGEN creates custom materials designs
Zach Winn, MIT News, September 22, 2025
MIT and Harvard researchers unveiled SCIGEN, a tool that guides generative AI models to design novel materials with specified structures. By embedding design rules (e.g. symmetry or topology) into each generation step, SCIGEN steers models toward physically valid structures. For example, it generated candidate materials for quantum computing applications, potentially accelerating discovery of exotic materials with AI ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-tool-makes-generative-ai-models-likely-create-breakthrough-materials-0922#:~:text=With%20SCIGEN%2C%20researchers%20can%20steer,for%20applications%20like%20quantum%20computing)).
How MIT entrepreneurs are using AI
Zach Winn, MIT News, September 22, 2025
This year’s MIT delta v startup accelerator showcased how student entrepreneurs incorporate AI into their products and research. From AI-driven legal tech to smart health devices, the stories illustrate ways in which new companies leverage machine learning to innovate. The report gives a glimpse of how AI is transforming the process of building and scaling startups at MIT.
AI’s double-edged sword: experts weigh its promise and peril
Adam Zewe, MIT News, September 19, 2025
At MIT’s first Generative AI Impact Consortium Symposium, researchers and industry leaders discussed the future of generative AI. Participants highlighted AI’s potential benefits (e.g. in research, education, and industry) and its risks (bias, job displacement, misuse). The gathering emphasized the need for responsible development and governance to maximize AI’s societal benefits while mitigating harms.
MIT/IBM team devises guide to AI scaling laws for LLMs
Lauren Hinkel, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, September 16, 2025
Researchers at MIT’s IBM Watson AI Lab published a universal framework to predict large language model (LLM) performance from smaller-scale models. By analyzing hundreds of training runs, they formulated scaling laws to estimate accuracy and costs for bigger models. This “scaling guide” helps AI developers allocate budgets and resources efficiently when training LLMs to reach desired performance targets ([news.mit.edu](https://news.mit.edu/2025/how-build-ai-scaling-laws-efficient-llm-training-budget-maximization-0916#:~:text=MIT,models%20in%20the%20same%20family)).
Lufthansa to cut 4,000 jobs by 2030 using AI
AP News, September 29, 2025
Lufthansa Group announced plans to eliminate about 4,000 administrative jobs by 2030 as it adopts greater use of AI and digital technologies. The airline, backed by Airbus and BMW, expects the workforce reductions to lower costs. The company said that despite job cuts, it anticipates strong profit growth with AI-driven improvements in efficiency.