Recent announcements
Google Announces Learn Your Way, which turns textbooks into interactive content personalized for the student.
Meta announces some kind of AI glasses with a display and wristband to detect your gestures.
Open AI releases an updated coding model, which is now better at refactoring code, among other things.
Both Google and OpenAI announced gold medals at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, one of the world’s top programming competitions. AI has surpassed humans at solving coding challenges, what’s next?
Predictions
Epoch AI predicts “that AI for scientific R&D will follow in the footsteps of coding assistants for software engineers today, boosting productivity for desk-based research by 10-20%”
An essay in Colossus magazine argues that while AI will transform the economy, the opportunities for investors will be limited, and the main benefits will go to customers of AI.
Current usage
Anthropic reports on how people and businesses are using Claude. They find people are now delegating complete tasks to Claude, which countries use it the most (Israel is in the lead), and much more.
OpenAI reports on how people use ChatGPT, see also this Substack post. Their full paper includes charts such as the following usage stats:
