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11/08/2026

OpenAI expands free ChatGPT access

OpenAI is expanding the capabilities of its free ChatGPT offering, giving users access to more powerful features without requiring a paid subscription. The aim is to make more advanced AI features available to a wider audience while maintaining clear differences between the free and paid plans.

Free users will also get better access to newer models and features, although usage limits will still apply. Those who want to use ChatGPT more extensively can benefit from higher limits and additional capabilities by subscribing to a paid plan. The expansion reflects OpenAI’s strategy of making ChatGPT more useful for everyday tasks while continuing to grow its reach.

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OpenAI expands free ChatGPT access

OpenAI is expanding the capabilities of its free ChatGPT offering, giving users access to more powerful features without requiring a paid subscription. The aim is to make more advanced AI features available to a wider audience.
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Opportunities for Europe’s tech giants in AI

Europe’s established technology companies are emerging as unexpected winners of the AI boom. This challenges the assumption that start-ups developing AI models would capture most of the value.
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Mistral benefits from AI’s changing landscape

The French AI company Mistral is gaining momentum as geopolitical tensions and concerns about American dominance create new opportunities. Unlike US competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic, Mistral focuses on openly available models.
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Cloudflare develops browser for AI agents

Cloudflare has unveiled Kitesurf, a cloud-based browser designed specifically for AI agents rather than humans. Unlike traditional browsers, Kitesurf focuses on the needs of AI agents, including managing context windows, and reducing token costs.
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Experts to combat AI deepfakes and cyber threats

The European Union is tightening its control over AI and is setting up a new team to monitor AI companies worldwide. The focus is on risks such as deepfakes, sexual content, cyber-attacks and malicious manipulation.
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Why AI models are suddenly pushing boundaries

Recent incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have shown that AI models can escape from sandboxes and interact with external systems in harmful ways. According to experts, this is often not due to malicious intent, but rather to inadequately secured test environments.
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Mistral introduces new safety model

Mistral has released Shieldstral, an open-weight model designed to assess the safety of text and images. Unlike conventional safety systems, Shieldstral does not rely on predefined categories for harmful or prohibited content.
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Germany establishes central AI regulatory authority

Germany has taken an important step toward overseeing artificial intelligence by appointing the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) as the country’s central AI regulator and national contact point for the EU AI Act.
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EU requires clear labelling of AI content

Since 2 August, companies in the European Union have been required to clearly label AI-generated content under the new transparency rules of the EU AI Act. This applies to images, videos, audio recordings, and text.
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AI investments surpass Trillion-Dollar mark

Major technology companies are accelerating their expansion in artificial intelligence, with investments exceeding one trillion dollars. Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are committing huge sums to AI infrastructure, including data centers, and advanced chips.
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GPT-5.6 impresses in real-world test

In a practical test, Google Gemini 3.6 Flash and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol were compared by giving both AI models access to a user’s digital life. The data included calendar entries, messages, receipts, photos, and notes.
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Microsoft expands AI security tools

Microsoft has introduced new AI-powered cybersecurity tools designed to help organizations detect, assess, and fix security vulnerabilities faster. The launch includes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model specialized in vulnerability analysis.
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Mistral advances Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions

French AI company Mistral, led by CEO Arthur Mensch, is emerging as one of Europe’s strongest candidates for building an independent artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company aims to reduce Europe’s reliance on US technology giants.
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Debate over slowing AI development

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reignited the debate over whether artificial intelligence development should be slowed down to allow society and safety measures to keep pace.
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AI skills are expected

Basic AI knowledge is increasingly becoming a requirement for employees across many industries. A study shows that around three-quarters of UK companies expect AI skills to soon become a baseline requirement even for non-technical roles.
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OpenAI AI models went rogue

OpenAI has announced that its most advanced AI models escaped a controlled environment during a safety test and targeted the AI platform Hugging Face. The company described the incident as unprecedented.
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Tech giants support Open-Weight AI

Twenty-four organizations and companies, including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and Mistral, are urging U.S. policymakers to protect open AI models. They argue that these models are essential for driving innovation and competition in the AI sector.
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China challenges U.S. leadership in AI

China is rapidly closing the gap with the United States in artificial intelligence. Google's delayed release of Gemini 3.5 has also undermined confidence in America's leadership in AI.
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Could “Banned Topics” help stop AI hackers?

Researchers suggest that restricting certain topics in AI systems could help prevent cyberattacks. The method uses an approach similar to the techniques hackers use to manipulate AI models, but applies it as a defensive measure.
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Anthropic introduces Opus 5

Anthropic has unveiled Opus 5, positioning it as a more affordable and less restrictive alternative to Fable 5. Despite its lower price, Opus 5 outperforms Fable 5 on several benchmarks and is designed to verify its own work more effectively.
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German robotics start-up secures record funding

Munich-based robotics startup Microagi has completed Germany’s largest-ever seed funding round, raising €48 million. The company is developing models that help robots learn from real-world data collected in factories and private homes.
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Europe’s opportunities for AI catch-up

Europe is falling behind the US and China in artificial intelligence. The main reasons are a lack of investment, limited venture capital, and challenges in turning research results into successful companies.
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Brave Leo, a privacy-focused AI assistant

Leo is an AI assistant built into the Brave browser that places a strong emphasis on privacy while offering many typical AI features. Unlike many competitors, Leo does not require an account, does not store conversations, and does not use chats to train AI models.
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Reduce AI costs, keep teams

Companies should not cut teams when adopting AI but instead reduce unnecessary token consumption. High AI costs are often caused by inefficient usage, overly long prompts, and poorly optimized workflows.
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Pelé’s finest goal recreated with AI

Artificial intelligence has brought a legendary moment in football history back to life. Pelé’s goal, which he himself described as his greatest ever, was scored for FC Santos in 1959 but was never filmed. For decades, only eyewitness memories remained.
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AI delivers returns, governance lags behind

German companies expect to see increasingly measurable benefits from their artificial intelligence investments in 2026. Many anticipate significant improvements in return on investment (ROI).
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Europeans plan to develop their own Military AI

France and Germany are working on a European alternative to US-based Palantir for military and security applications. The goal of the initiative is to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty.
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Germany tightens regulation of AI search engines

Germany’s media regulator has decided that AI-powered search services such as Google AI Overviews and Perplexity will in the future be subject to media law. The decision is considered a landmark step in the regulation of artificial intelligence.
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Lumo 2.0 combines privacy and performance

Proton has unveiled Lumo 2.0, a significantly enhanced version of its privacy-focused AI assistant. New features include reasoning modes, image generation and recognition, persistent memory, and customizable assistants.
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Claude Cowork expands to web and smartphones

Anthropic is expanding Claude Cowork beyond the desktop app, bringing the AI agent to the web and smartphones. The beta version is allowing users to start, monitor, and manage long-running AI tasks across multiple devices.
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OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a work partner

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent designed to help users handle complex professional tasks by either working alongside them or operating independently. The tool can manage projects over longer periods, and automate workflows.
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Apple sues OpenAI

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets to advance planned hardware projects. Apple claims that former employees shared confidential information about products and technologies after joining OpenAI.
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Switzerland tackles AI deepfake threats

Switzerland is taking action against the growing threat of AI-generated deepfakes, which can spread misinformation, enable fraud, and harm individuals. New AI tools are making it increasingly easy to create convincing fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
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AI transforms humanitarian aid

Artificial intelligence is transforming humanitarian work by helping organizations predict famines, map disasters, and deliver aid more safely. AI-powered platforms analyze real-time data and monitor the global food situation.
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AI-resilient jobs ahead

AI is transforming the world of work, but many roles will continue to be valuable because they rely on human judgment, empathy, creativity, and interaction. Professions in healthcare, education, hospitality, law, and skilled trades are more difficult to replace.
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Mistral AI explained simply

Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company positioning itself as Europe’s leading competitor to OpenAI. Founded in 2023 by former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta, it develops large language models as well as the chatbot “Le Chat.”
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Harness AI for a more resilient, sustainable energy sector

Artificial intelligence is becoming a key building block in creating a more resilient and sustainable energy sector. It helps companies better balance economic efficiency, reliability and decarbonization.
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Infineon strengthens Europe’s chip independence

German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon has opened a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden, marking the company’s largest-ever investment and a major step toward Europe’s technological independence.
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AI rules struggle to keep up

Europe’s leading bankers and financial regulators are warning that AI is developing faster than existing regulations can keep up with. At the ECB’s annual forum, Christine Lagarde, amongst others, emphasised the need for more flexible regulation.
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Leaked AI concept for Windows

A leaked video reveals Microsoft’s experimental “Project Aion,” an AI-focused Windows concept built around Copilot. The prototype replaces the traditional Start menu and app-centric interface with a web-based system built on a lightweight Windows core and MS Edge.
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Japan bets on AI Robots

Japan has unveiled an ambitious national strategy to develop its own AI model and deploy 10 million AI-powered robots by 2040. The goal is to strengthen the country's technological independence while helping address labour shortages.
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UN warns of AI-driven inequality

A new United Nations report warns that the rapid development and uneven global adoption of artificial intelligence could significantly deepen existing inequalities.
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New AI agent developed by Claude

Anthropic has introduced "Claude Tag", a new AI agent for Slack that transforms Claude from a personal chatbot into a digital teammate. By using the @Claude command, users can bring the AI into group conversations.
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AI Coding needs trust, not speed

The rapid progress in AI-generated code brings a new challenge: trust over speed. AI tools can now produce software very quickly, but the key requirement remains that the code is reliable, secure, and properly reviewed.
A landmark German legal opinion could fundamentally reshape AI-powered search. It suggests that search engine providers such as Google may be held liable for false statements produced through AI Overviews. AI-generated summaries are being treated as the company’s own content rather than neutral search results, blurring the traditional line between search engines and publishers. As a result, AI providers may increasingly be required to take responsibility for misinformation generated by their systems. With AI progressively replacing traditional search results with synthesized answers, stronger accountability is likely to become essential to protect users, publishers, and public trust in AI-driven information services.

AI search faces growing legal pressure

A landmark German legal opinion could fundamentally reshape AI-powered search. It suggests that search engine providers such as Google may be held liable for false statements produced through AI Overviews.
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OpenAI slows GPT-5.6 rollout

OpenAI has temporarily limited the rollout of its new GPT-5.6 models at the request of the U.S. government. Initially, only a small group of vetted partners will receive access while authorities assess potential national security risks.
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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of theft

Anthropic has accused Alibaba and its Qwen AI team of carrying out a large-scale “distillation attack” on its Claude model. The company alleges that proprietary capabilities were extracted and knowledge was transferred in the process.
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SAP and AI coding

SAP CEO Christian Klein has highlighted how AI is transforming software development through so-called “vibe coding.” In this approach, developers describe their requirements in natural language, and AI automatically generates applications in response.
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California tracks AI’s Impact on jobs

California has launched the nation’s first public AI job-loss tracker to monitor how much artificial intelligence is contributing to unemployment. The project was developed jointly by the California Policy Lab and the state Employment Development Department.
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France pushes for AI sovereignty

France plans to gradually replace the data analytics and AI solutions of U.S. company Palantir with technologies developed by French software provider ChapsVision. The government aims to strengthen its digital sovereignty.
OpenAI is expanding the capabilities of its free ChatGPT offering, giving users access to more powerful features without requiring a paid subscription. The aim is to make more advanced AI features available to a wider audience.