To address a projected shortage of one million professionals in India's growing AI sector, SAS has expanded its Academy for Data & AI Excellence. The updated curriculum features four distinct tracks covering generative AI, data engineering, and business analytics for diverse career stages.

Amid a global surge in demand for artificial intelligence literacy, IBM’s “AI Foundations for Everyone” specialization on Coursera offers a no-code pathway for non-technical professionals. This report examines the four-course curriculum, the context of Coursera's 10 million GenAI enrollments, and how the program compares to competitor offerings from Google and DeepLearning.AI.

OpenAI enters the browser market with Atlas, a Chromium-based tool for macOS featuring a persistent ChatGPT sidebar and autonomous Agent Mode. The release highlights a shift toward AI-mediated browsing but draws scrutiny from security researchers regarding prompt injection risks and data privacy.

Following the Wang Fuk Court fire on November 26, which affected seven towers and resulted in at least 128 casualties , TheDayAfterAI utilized the AI assistant Claude to examine the event through fire science principles. The resulting analysis addresses the public debate regarding the roles of bamboo scaffolding versus plastic safety nets , suggesting that a combination of factors, including the "chimney effect" and specific material properties, contributed to the disaster.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 on Nov 24, 2025, featuring "Infinite" context compaction and a 200K token window. The flagship model scores 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified and drops API input pricing to $5 per million tokens, challenging GPT-5.1. Adopted under the ASL-3 safety standard, Anthropic holds a 32% enterprise market share.

Google has updated its open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) to include fully documented bidirectional streaming capabilities, enabling developers to build real-time, multimodal agents that utilize Gemini Live. Now supporting Python, Java, and Go, the framework allows for low-latency interactions such as user interruptions during voice sessions. This development aligns with broader industry trends, as Gartner forecasts a significant rise in enterprise agent adoption over the coming years.

Google is shifting from a list of blue links to a conversational assistant with the global rollout of AI Mode. Building on AI Overviews — now reaching 1.5 billion users — the feature uses Gemini models to answer complex questions directly. However, the shift faces mounting legal and industry scrutiny over its impact on publisher traffic and the "zero-click" economy.

Launched in late 2025, Grokipedia utilizes the Grok language model to generate over 1 million articles as a proposed alternative to Wikipedia. This report examines the platform’s automated structure and rapid growth alongside independent analyses highlighting its reliance on low-credibility sources and distinct ideological framing compared to traditional human-curated encyclopedias.

xAI has formally introduced Grok 4.1, a new large language model family that includes a dedicated "Thinking" mode designed for complex reasoning tasks. The release, which recorded an initial Elo score of 1483 on the LMArena leaderboard, features a significantly reduced hallucination rate compared to previous versions and is now available to users on the X platform and Grok website.

Noise-injection techniques are emerging as a key area of research for strengthening AI systems against adversarial attacks. Recent methods — including PNI, AdaNI, DiffPure, ADBM and MANI-Pure — combine adaptive noise, diffusion purification and feature-aware strategies to enhance both model robustness and clean accuracy.

Researchers have uncovered four major prompt-injection attack vectors affecting both ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet, revealing systemic weaknesses across AI-powered browsers. Hidden webpage instructions, screenshots, malformed URLs and tainted agent memory can all trigger unintended actions. The findings indicate that architectural changes are needed as AI browsers become more autonomous.

EY has launched its AI Academy in New Delhi to address rising demand for enterprise AI skills. Built on 200+ real-world use cases, the programme follows EY’s internal upskilling of 44,000 employees and pilots with five organisations, which generated over 50 AI projects. The initiative aligns with India’s rapid growth in generative AI learning.

KU Leuven has concluded its five-year Summer School on the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence, held in hybrid format in July 2025. The programme brought together academics, policymakers and practitioners to examine regulatory, ethical and practical dimensions of AI, including the EU’s AI Act. Participants explored global governance trends, sector applications, and emerging questions in responsible AI deployment.

Software development kits have moved from supporting tools to strategic enablers in the AI development landscape. By providing compilers, libraries, sample code, and deployment utilities, they streamline workflows across cloud, edge, and mobile environments. Recent AI-focused SDK releases illustrate how vendors are addressing integration challenges as systems grow more complex. At the same time, questions around standardisation, transparency, and security continue to shape how these tools are adopted.

JSON-RPC is a lightweight communication protocol that continues to play an important role in AI and distributed computing. Its simple request-and-response structure, transport flexibility, and compatibility with systems such as the Model Context Protocol and blockchain clients have supported its ongoing use. This report reviews its development, applications, benefits, and future outlook.

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining momentum as an open standard for linking AI models to live data and external tools. By simplifying integrations and enhancing interoperability, MCP is reshaping how AI systems perform real-world tasks across sectors from software development to business operations.

Microsoft has unveiled NLWeb, an open-source framework designed to integrate conversational AI directly into websites. Announced at Build 2025, NLWeb uses standards such as Schema.org and the Model Context Protocol to allow users and AI agents to query content in natural language. The initiative aims to make websites AI-responsive, interoperable, and better prepared for an emerging agentic web.

The Agent Network Protocol (ANP) has been introduced as an open-source standard for AI agent interoperability, offering a three-layer architecture for secure communication, authentication, and discovery. Developed by a community-led initiative and formalized in a July 2025 arXiv paper, ANP seeks to address fragmentation in agent ecosystems by adopting semantic web technologies and decentralized identifiers.

The “agentic internet” is redefining how people and AI interact online. In 2025, Microsoft and industry partners introduced open protocols, AI tools, and platforms that enable autonomous agents to plan, reason, and collaborate across the web. These systems promise greater efficiency and innovation while raising new challenges around governance, monetization, and ethics.

New mid-2025 benchmarks reveal significant variation in factual accuracy across leading AI models. AntGroup’s Finix-S1-32B records a 0.6% hallucination rate on Vectara tests, the lowest publicly measured result, while models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI show differing strengths across reasoning, summarisation and verification tasks.