This week showcased AI’s dual nature — its potential to revolutionize industries and daily life, and its capacity to ignite ethical debates, legal battles, and geopolitical tensions. From the boardroom to the battlefield, and from the lab to the app store, AI’s influence is everywhere — forcing leaders, developers, and users alike to rethink the rules of the game.
Claude can now process entire software projects in single request, Anthropic says: Anthropic announced that its Claude model now supports processing entire codebases or long documents in a single prompt — streamlining workflows for software development and enterprise applications at unprecedented scale. Read more here
GPT-5 and the new era of work: OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a unified model that incorporates reasoning, agents, advanced math, structural thinking, and high accuracy in one system — intended to transform enterprise productivity. Early access is rolling out to Team users, with Enterprise, Edu, and GPT-5 Pro (with extended reasoning) coming soon. Notable early users like Amgen report improved clarity, reliability, and speed. Read more here
SoundHound is giving its AI the power of sight: On August 8, 2025, SoundHound launched Vision AI — integrating camera-based visual perception with its Polaris speech recognition, natural language understanding, and agent orchestration in real time. This multimodal platform aims to deliver more natural, context-aware interactions across sectors like automotive and retail. Read more here
Amazon Devices & Services achieves major step toward zero-touch manufacturing with NVIDIA AI and digital twins: Amazon is leveraging NVIDIA AI-driven digital twin technology to create virtual replicas of its manufacturing systems, enabling simulated operations that reduce physical prototyping and human intervention — bringing the company closer to hands-free, highly efficient production. Read more here
Nvidia claps back at Chinese accusations its H20 chips pose a security risk: In response to Chinese regulatory scrutiny questioning the safety and suggesting backdoors in Nvidia’s H20 AI chips, Nvidia’s Chief Security Officer David Reber Jr. emphatically denied any embedded kill switches, spyware, or backdoors. The company urged transparency and warned that such perceptions could harm global tech leadership. Read more here
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3. AI & Society
James Cameron warns of ‘Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponized: Filmmaker James Cameron cautions that combining AI with weapons systems — even up to the level of nuclear defense — could outpace human reaction time, underscoring the need to “keep a human in the loop.” He framed this risk among three existential threats, alongside superintelligence and climate change. Read more here
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds: A study by LSE’s Care Policy & Evaluation Centre analyzed 29,616 summary pairs generated from identical case notes — differing only by the user’s gender — and found that Google’s AI model “Gemma” described men’s health needs using terms like “disabled” or “complex” more often than women’s, potentially leading to unequal social care decisions. Meta’s Llama 3 showed no such bias. Read more here
Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt: A 60-year-old man, seeking diet advice, asked ChatGPT how to remove sodium chloride from his diet and instead began using sodium bromide — resulting in toxic “bromism” and hospitalization. The incident is cited in medical literature as a warning against relying on AI for health advice. Read more here
Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets: After Grok’s suspension from X, users were met with contradictory and unverifiable explanations from the chatbot itself — ranging from accusations of genocide to platform errors — highlighting how LLMs often generate plausible-sounding but false narratives. Experts emphasize that trust in AI systems requires transparency from creators, not the bots. Read more here
Musk to sue Apple for featuring OpenAI over X, Grok in the App Store’s top apps: Elon Musk accuses Apple of antitrust violations, claiming that despite X being the #1 news app and Grok ranking fifth overall, neither appear in the App Store’s “Must Have” section — unlike OpenAI’s ChatGPT. He plans immediate legal action, alleging political bias in app curation. Apple insists its processes are objective. Read more here
Outro
This week showcased AI’s dual nature — its potential to revolutionize industries and daily life, and its capacity to ignite ethical debates, legal battles, and geopolitical tensions. From the boardroom to the battlefield, and from the lab to the app store, AI’s influence is everywhere — forcing leaders, developers, and users alike to rethink the rules of the game.
