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

Trust us, if we try to create a full summary of all AI news since January 2025, it will not be a list – it will be a book.

With the development of the industry, we have lived our AI news for the rest of our lives. To reduce it, we focus on shaping the key policies, functions and official announcements of companies that generate the AI ​​era.

So let’s look at the largest AI announcement of the year (so far).

Best new model for 2025

Top AI companies are locked in the AI ​​arms race and we will get major new models almost every month. New models released in 2025 include:

Stargate Project’s $500 billion infrastructure plan

President Donald Trump, two days after his inauguration, highlighted his administration’s focus on AI innovation, including a large-scale infrastructure project. The Stargate project is a $500 billion enterprise that built AI supercomputers in the United States by OpenAI and Softbank and Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle.

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However, not everyone is optimistic about a $500 billion investment. “They don’t have money,” said Openai co-founder Elon Musk. (More on this later.)

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DeepSeek R1 has left its mark on the artificial intelligence industry

Despite the U.S. announcement that it plans to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into AI infrastructure, a Chinese company called DeepSeek claims to have established its R1 model for just $6 million. The real hardware cost is estimated to be much higher (probably over $500 million) as DeepSeek only reports rent for its NVIDIA GPUs. But while DeepSeek is able to create inference models as excellent as OpenAI models, despite limiting GPUs, it is enough to shock the AI ​​industry.

Tech Stocks took a hit, and Trump announced the moment of a “wake-up call” for U.S. tech companies as Chinese competitors set new precedents for the global AI arms race.

Trump’s executive order puts AI education in K-12 schools

Promoting AI innovation has been the main theme of Trump’s presidency. In April, Trump made AI education a formal priority in the executive order in schools. This mission directs federal agencies to implement AI literacy and proficiency in K-12 schools and high-skill programs for related professionals.

The executive order is designed to prepare future generations to learn the necessary skills to a growing number of AI-centric worlds. Meanwhile, schools are working to use AI tools like chatgpt in the classroom, which has led to rampant cheating problems. That said, AI’s ability to increase productivity and provide the U.S. with competitive advantage while hindering learning and critical thinking is a tricky dichotomy that is rooted in the education system.

Openai’s corporate structure turns around

Openai is a cap-for-profit for-profit managed by a nonprofit committee. It then tried to convert into a fully for-profit company that sent alerts from AI leaders such as Geoffrey Hinton and former Openai employees who warned of the consequences in an open letter.

They explained that the proposed restructuring “will eliminate basic safeguards” and “efficiently control and profit, which is probably the most powerful technology ever to a for-profit entity with legal obligations to prioritize shareholder returns.”

Eventually, Openai turned the course around…a little bit. Instead, the ChatGPT manufacturer announced in May that it would continue to be ruled by a nonprofit committee but convert its for-profit subsidiary into a Public Welfare Company (PBC), a for-profit corporate structure that legally requires the company to “consider the interests of shareholders and tasks.”

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However, the new plan has been criticized by the same group, with others saying the new structure still allowing Openai to put profits ahead of its altruistic tasks, as the nonprofit board will now become shareholders of the vested interest in the company’s success.

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

A few days after Pope Lion Fourteen was elected as leader of the Catholic Church, he summoned the AI ​​industry. The new pope talked about “the development of the field of artificial intelligence poses new challenges to defending human dignity, justice and labor,” in his first basic speech, conveying a powerful message about his priorities. His name choice even pays homage to the former Pope Leo XIII, who advocates social justice and labor reforms during the Industrial Revolution.

Pope Leo XIV continues to talk about the harm of AI. “Don’t forget that artificial intelligence is a tool of human interests – don’t reduce them, don’t replace them.” Technology and religion are not always consistent, but Leo XIV makes it clear that the impact of AI is also a spiritual problem.

AI copyright reports have an impact of “pre-publishing”

Director Shira Perlmutter was fired by President Trump the day after the U.S. Copyright Office released its highly anticipated “pre-release version” of its report on using copyrighted engineering training AI models. Perlmutter’s sudden sacking immediately sparked speculation, people wonder if she knew she was fired and eager to release a version of the report, or if she was fired because She published the report, or it was completely unrelated.

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We don’t know what’s going on, but it’s obvious that the copyright office is often in the favor of copyright holders. “[M]This is not just the commercial use of copyrighted works that compete with them in existing markets, but especially in the case of achieving this through illegal access, which goes beyond the boundaries of fair use, the report said.

AI Deepfake Pornography Act becomes federal law

AI Deepfake porn is now a federal crime. Take It Down Act was signed into law on May 19, making it a crime to publish or threaten to publish involuntary intimate images (NCII), including AI-generated deep strikes. With bipartisan support, the act of bringing it down quickly passed Congress. The wide availability of generative AI has enabled deep effects for evil purposes, which ultimately attracted the attention of legislators.

However, digital rights groups criticized the bill for being too broad and risk of false alarm. “Services will rely on automated filters, which are notoriously straightforward tools. They often mark legal content, from fair-purpose comments to news coverage,” the Electronic Border Foundation (EFF) added that the bill may have good intentions, but should not “invent new measures to abuse.”

Google’s AI model marks a new era of search

Google search has been making a while since the evolution of the blue link list. But in this year’s Google I/O, the tech giant has made it officially official by launching the AI ​​model. Google’s new search tool is a chatbot interface that serves as an alternative to traditional search homepages (now with an overview generated by AI and a summary of related queries).

As the top title holder in the search engine market, Google’s introduction of AI model represents a fundamental shift in the way people find information online. Users have turned to confusion with chatgpt or AI search engines, just as the quality of Google search results has become worse. Google’s solution is to rely on AI-powered search capabilities to compete more directly, despite known hallucinations and alienation publishers saying new AI search capabilities are attracting its traffic.

Openai and Jony Ive team build AI companions

According to Sam Altman and Jony Ive, the future of AI is screenless. In May, Openai announced the acquisition of Jony Ive’s company and plans to develop AI devices together. Openai will try to succeed where others fail: create a device that has evolved beyond the phone and computer screen you’ve experienced the world like you, becoming the ultimate AI companion.

Details are still scarce, but the recording leaked at an internal meeting described it as “a person’s third core device that will be placed on his desk after a MacBook Pro and iPhone.” Recently, all startups that mention Jony Ive were scrubbed from the OpenAI website after AI-powered earbud company IYO filed a trademark lawsuit. But Openai said the partnership is still underway.

Mark Zuckerberg goes shopping

recent, New York Times Reporting provided by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Forbidden City $100 million contract Steal the key talents of Openai and other competitors. according to eraZuckerberg is chasing “godly technology” and super intelligent AI. Facebook founder knows that Meta lags behind its competitors in the AI ​​competition and he is determined to build an AI supergroup.

Disney enters AI copyright war

Journalists and artists filed numerous copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Recently, Meta and Anthropic both won copyright lawsuits against the authors. But this summer, a new and terrifying fighter entered the AI ​​copyright law battle: The House of Rats. Disney has sued AI Image Generator Midjourney, one of the lawsuits against AI and copyright laws. Disney lawsuit calls Midjourney a “bottomless stolen”.

Disclosure: Mashable’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against Openai in April, accusing it of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI systems.