Data theft allegations against Chinese competitors
U.S. AI company Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax, of illegally using its Claude chatbot. The firms allegedly improved their own models through a process called “distillation.”
Memory becomes an AI bottleneck
In AI infrastructure, costs are increasingly determined by storage rather than just GPUs. Prices for DRAM chips have risen significantly over the past year, making efficient storage management a decisive factor for performance and cost-effectiveness.
EU demands fair data sharing from Google
The EU has instructed Google to comply with the data sharing requirements of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Specifically, third-party AI services are to be granted “equivalent” access to the data that Google’s own products use.
OpenAI and ChatGPT: Rise, challenges and current milestones
Since its launch in November 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has evolved from a tool for writing and programming into a global AI platform with around 800 million weekly users. In 2025, the company faced increasing competition from Chinese providers.
EU investigates Google’s use of online content
The European Union has launched a competition investigation into Google. The investigation focuses on whether the company is unfairly using online content to train its AI models, such as Gemini.
OpenAI declares “Code Red” in light of Gemini’s success
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared “Code Red” for ChatGPT following the success of Google’s Gemini 3. Gemini 3 gained 200 million users in three months and outperformed ChatGPT in benchmark tests.
Open-source solutions as an alternative
A study by the Fraunhofer Institute shows that the German federal administration can largely rely on its own open solutions instead of large foreign platforms. Through internal developments, the state avoids critical dependencies and maintains transparency, control, and the ability to act.
Anthropic triples workforce to drive global growth
Anthropic plans to triple its international workforce and increase its applied AI team fivefold in 2025 to accelerate global expansion. With over 300,000 enterprise customers the company is aggressively expanding into markets like India, Europe, and Asia.
Anthropic blocks OpenAI’s access to Claude
Anthropic has cut off OpenAI’s access to its Claude AI models after it was revealed that OpenAI had used them to compare performance with its own models ahead of the GPT-5 launch.
OpenAI’s race for general-purpose AI
OpenAI’s path toward building versatile AI agents began with a research team called MathGen, which focused on improving the models’ reasoning skills – starting with math. This work led to the creation of o1.