Adobe has released Harmonize, a new AI tool in Photoshop that automates color and lighting adjustments to improve image compositing. Powered by Firefly, the feature streamlines editing tasks, integrates into Adobe’s creative suite, and highlights the growing role of AI in visual media production and filmmaking workflows.

Higgsfield AI has unveiled its Canvas tool, launched in June 2025, offering image editing and animation features designed for creators and businesses. The San Francisco startup, founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, secured $8 million in seed funding to develop mobile-friendly AI tools. Canvas integrates editing and video generation in a single platform, addressing the rising need for efficient, user-friendly AI solutions.

Runway has introduced Aleph, a new AI model designed to edit and transform existing video footage through natural language prompts. The tool can generate alternative camera angles, adjust lighting, and replace objects while maintaining motion consistency. Positioned as part of Runway’s platform, Aleph reflects ongoing shifts in video production where AI is streamlining traditional editing workflows.

GitHub has become a cornerstone of modern software development, serving 150 million developers across more than 420 million repositories. From its 2008 founding to Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition and the rise of AI tools like Copilot, the platform continues to transform global coding collaboration, security, and innovation.

Hugging Face has emerged as a central hub for open-source AI, enabling global collaboration through its widely used Transformers library and expansive model-sharing platform. Backed by a $4.5B valuation and recent acquisition of Pollen Robotics, the company is expanding beyond software into hardware while continuing to champion accessible, community-driven AI development.

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.

Almost 7,000 students at UK universities were caught using AI tools such as ChatGPT to cheat in the 2023-24 academic year, more than triple the figure from the year before. The findings, based on FOI requests to 155 institutions, reveal the sharp rise of AI-related misconduct as traditional plagiarism cases decline. Universities now face mounting challenges in detection, ethics, and the future of assessment.

Singapore-based KABAM Robotics is expanding the use of AI-powered robots in facility management, focusing on autonomous navigation, inspections, and predictive maintenance. From healthcare to commercial buildings, deployments showcase potential to reduce labor pressure, improve operational efficiency, and support sustainability goals.

Optimization lies at the heart of artificial intelligence, enabling models to refine parameters, reduce errors, and adapt to complex tasks. Tracing its roots from early mathematics and linear programming to modern techniques like Adam and neural architecture search, this report explores how optimization drives AI progress, industry applications, and emerging future directions.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has praised the AI tool Claude for its analysis of a constitutional dispute, citing its effectiveness in handling complex Confrontation Clause issues. Her comments at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference underscore AI’s growing role in legal practice, though persistent risks and ethical questions suggest cautious adoption ahead.

The U.S. House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party held a June 25 hearing on artificial intelligence, featuring testimony from Anthropic’s Jack Clark, CSBA’s Thomas Mahnken, and AI Policy Network’s Mark Beall. Witnesses highlighted the dual-edged potential of AI, national security concerns, and the need for export controls, federal testing, and legislative action to address risks of AGI and superintelligence.

Hong Kong and Brazil are reshaping drone regulations to support AI-driven applications across sectors. Hong Kong’s amendments create a new category for heavier drones and enable sandbox trials, while Brazil’s proposed RBAC-100 framework adopts risk-based oversight to expand agricultural and commercial drone use.

SoloAI has rolled out new upgrades to its AI-driven music platform, extending track length and introducing synchronized video generation. With blockchain integration and virtual performers like DJ SONA, the company aims to make music creation more accessible while advancing within the wider trend of multimodal AI tools.

At CES 2025, Withings revealed Omnia, a conceptual AI-powered smart mirror designed to integrate daily health monitoring into routine use. The device combines body scans, heart and metabolic insights, and connected data from other Withings products. While not intended for immediate release, Omnia demonstrates the company’s vision for unified, AI-driven personal health management.

Scientists at Tufts University have created Anthrobots—microscopic constructs formed from human tracheal cells without genetic modification. These self-assembling entities can move using outward-facing cilia, aid in neural repair in lab tests, and demonstrate epigenetic age reversal. The research suggests new possibilities for regenerative medicine and understanding how cellular organization influences aging.

A new study commissioned by the European Parliament calls for a dedicated strict liability regime for high-risk AI systems. The report argues existing EU rules, including the revised Product Liability Directive, remain insufficient to address AI’s unique risks. Without harmonized liability, it warns of national divergences that could impact accountability, innovation, and public trust.

Insta360 has unveiled two new cameras — the Ace Pro 2 and X5 — equipped with advanced AI processors to improve image quality, low-light performance, and editing efficiency. The launches highlight the company’s focus on hardware-software integration in action and 360-degree capture, aiming to streamline workflows for creators and professionals alike.

DeepSeek has delayed the rollout of its R2 model after facing technical setbacks training on Huawei’s Ascend chips. The company reverted to Nvidia’s H20 for training while using Ascend for inference. The delay underscores challenges in China’s AI hardware push and opens opportunities for rivals such as Alibaba’s Qwen3.

This report provides a structured, data-driven comparison of Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 and Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 AI computing systems. It examines performance from chip to rack level, evaluates efficiency and software ecosystems, and considers broader market and geopolitical factors shaping AI infrastructure choices.

This report examines the differences between direct access to ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and DeepSeek on their native platforms and indirect access via Poe. It reviews verified features, usage limits, regional access considerations, and potential changes in performance or user experience, highlighting which claims are fact-supported and which remain unverified.