May 2025

Why it matters: Walmart Unveils AI Shopping Assistants to transform online shopping with smart, personalized experiences.

Artificial intelligence is transforming everything: how we shop, how we work, and now, it’s revolutionising what we eat. AI has already helped farmers increase yields by 20-30% and optimised global supply chains, yet, its most profound impact may be on public health. Across the food value chain, from farm to fork, AI is quietly addressing…

Across industries, tariffs and trade shifts have transcended the realm of abstract policy debates to become existential challenges for businesses of all sizes. The 2025 economic landscape presents unprecedented complexities: a universal 10% import duty blankets all incoming goods with punitive rates of up to 54% targeting China, Mexico, and European Union members and creating…

A new paper from researchers in China and Spain finds that even advanced multimodal AI models such as GPT-4.1 struggle to tell the time from images of analog clocks. Small visual changes in the clocks can cause major interpretation errors, and fine-tuning only helps with familiar examples. The results raise concerns about the reliability of…

Why it matters: OpenAI’s New Model Aims for Excellence with safer, smarter AI for better performance and user alignment.

Have you ever found yourself with a song and a vision but have no clue how to bring them together visually without burning through your savings or learning complex editing software? You have music you’re proud of, but no idea how to turn that into something people can see and feel. That’s what led me…

Why it matters: Build Custom AI Agents for Workflow Automation to streamline tasks, boost efficiency, and scale your business.

In April 2025, OpenAI introduced its most advanced models to date, o3 and o4-mini. These models represent a major step forward in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering new capabilities in visual analysis and coding support. With their strong reasoning skills and ability to work with both text and images, o3 and o4-mini can…

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent designed to autonomously discover novel algorithms and scientific solutions. Presented in the paper titled “AlphaEvolve: A Coding Agent for Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery,” this research represents a foundational step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and even Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Rather than relying on static fine-tuning or…

Why it matters: Analysis of 8 Million US Speeches Reveals Surprising Trends in personalization, emotion, and local focus.