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Artificial Intelligence is present in everyday life – from “googling” to facial recognition to vacuum cleaner robots. AI tools are becoming more and more elaborate and support people and companies more effectively in their tasks, such as generating graphics, texting or coding, or interpreting large amounts of data.

What AI tools are there, how do they work, how do they help in our everyday world – and how do they change our lives? These are the questions we address in our Content Hub Artificial Intelligence in Practice.

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OpenAI launches GPT-5 as a unified system with adaptive reasoning for complex tasks

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OpenAI releases its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 with GPT-oss

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Google upgrades Gemini with Deep Think and flags early warning risks

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Cybercriminals are upgrading WormGPT with stronger AI models. The original WormGPT, which launched in June 2023, used the open source GPT-J model to create a censorship-free LLM for cybercrime. Now, Cato CTRL reports that two new versions have surfaced on BreachForums: "keanu-WormGPT," which actually taps Grok from xAI through its API using a custom jailbreak, and "xzin0vich-WormGPT," which runs on Mixtral from Mistral AI. Both are distributed via Telegram and get around the original models' safeguards by manipulating system prompts. This lets them generate phishing emails, malicious code, and other attack tools. Cato calls this a "significant shift" in the misuse of large language models.

WormGPT now comes in new variants powered by Grok and Mixtral, making it easier for cybercriminals to create phishing emails and malicious code. | Image: Cato Networks
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Google has released Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an open-source AI model for live music creation and control. The model responds to text prompts, audio samples, or both. Magenta RT is built on an 800 million parameter Transformer and trained on about 190,000 hours of mostly instrumental music. One technical limitation is that it can only access the last ten seconds of generated audio.

The code and model are available under open licenses on GitHub and Hugging Face. Users can test the model for free on Colab TPUs. Google plans to add local use, customizations, and publish a research paper soon.

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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has raised $2 billion for her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. The six-month-old company is now valued at $10 billion, with no public product or revenue. According to its website, the startup focuses on human-AI collaboration and customizable AI, avoiding the more lofty superintelligence goals promoted by other labs. Murati left OpenAI in fall 2024 after internal disagreements. The high valuation appears driven by her reputation, similar to Safe Super Intelligence, the startup led by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, which is valued at over $30 billion with no product.

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The BBC is threatening legal action against US AI startup Perplexity over the alleged unauthorized use of BBC content to train its AI systems. In a letter seen by the Financial Times, the BBC demanded that Perplexity immediately stop scraping its content, delete stored BBC material, and provide financial compensation. The broadcaster says Perplexity copied content verbatim, undermined BBC's own services, and used BBC material to train its standard AI model, Sonar. An internal BBC analysis found that 17 percent of answers generated by Perplexity's chatbot contained significant errors. Perplexity denies the allegations, but the company is already facing lawsuits from other media organizations and is in licensing negotiations with selected publishers.

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Resemble AI has released Chatterbox, a free open-source voice cloning model that runs locally and supports emotional tone control like "dramatic" or "monotone." It clones voices using just a few seconds of audio and responds in under 200 milliseconds. The tool works on Windows, Mac, and Linux with 5–6 GB of video memory. All generated speech includes a faint watermark, "PerTh," to identify it as AI-made. According to Resemble AI, it performed better than ElevenLabs in blind tests. Currently, it only supports English.

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Chatterbox is licensed under MIT and targets developers. Check out the demo here.

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A new website called "The OpenAI Files" launched on June 18, 2025, compiles internal documents and criticism of OpenAI's leadership, strategy, and corporate culture. It raises concerns about whether the company is moving away from its original non-profit goals to serve investor interests. The platform includes reports from former staff, analyses of restructuring plans, and scrutiny of CEO Sam Altman's role. The groups Tech Oversight and The Midas Project of the site say the goal is to spark public discussion about transparency, safety, and oversight in OpenAI's development of powerful AI systems.

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OpenAI has launched "ChatGPT Record", a feature in the macOS desktop app that lets Pro, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users record, transcribe, and summarize audio. Each session allows up to 120 minutes, with recordings automatically turned into structured summaries. OpenAI says the tool works best in English, deletes audio after transcription, and does not use it for training. Enterprise and Edu users can access the feature through the Compliance API. The feature was introduced in early June.

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Google downplays AI's environmental impact in new study

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Deepseek’s first hybrid model V3.1 surpasses its R1 reasoning model on benchmarks

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Meta's human-like chatbot personas can mislead users and result in real-world harm

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