Today we’re starting to roll out GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT. It brings improvements to how enjoyable ChatGPT feels to talk to, and how well it follows what you’re actually asking.
GPT-5.1 Instant is now warmer, more reliable with instructions, and can use reasoning on tougher questions for the first time. GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its reasoning time to the complexity of the task and gives clearer, more approachable responses.
We’re also beginning to make tone and style easier to personalize, so ChatGPT can respond in a way that feels right for you.
For months, extremely personal and sensitive ChatGPT conversations have been leaking into an unexpected destination: Google Search Console (GSC), a tool that developers typically use to monitor search traffic, not lurk private chats.
Funding AI education is 2 of 7 total priorities, divided into two $25M funds, with grants ranging from $1-4M for a 4-year project term.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) just ghosted Microsoft. After years of U.S. pressure, the world’s top war crimes court is cutting its digital ties with America’s software empire. Its new partner? A German state-funded open-source suite called OpenDesk by Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS).
It’s a symbolic divorce, and a strategic one. The International Criminal Court’s shift away from Microsoft Office may sound like an IT procurement story, but it’s really about trust, control, and sovereignty.
For the ICC, this isn’t theory. Under the previous U.S. administration (Trump yr. 2020), Washington imposed sanctions on the court’s chief prosecutor and reportedly triggered a temporary shutdown of his Microsoft account. When your prosecutor’s inbox can be weaponised, trust collapses. And when trust collapses, systems follow.
Europe has seen this coming. In Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the public sector has already replaced Microsoft entirely with open-source systems. Denmark is building a national cloud anchored in European data centres. There is a broader ripple across Europe: France, Italy, Spain and other regions are piloting or considering similar steps. We may be facing a "who's next" trend. The EU’s Sovereign Cloud initiative is quietly expanding into justice, health, and education.
This pattern is unmistakable: trust has become the new infrastructure of AI and digital governance. The question shaping every boardroom and every ministry is the same: who ultimately controls the data, the servers, and the decisions behind them?
For Europe’s schools, courts, and governments, dependence on U.S. providers may looks less like innovation and more like exposure. European alternatives may still lack the seamless polish, but they bring something far more valuable market: autonomy, compliance, and credibility.
The ICC’s decision is not about software. It’s about sovereignty, and the politics of trust. And, the message is clear: Europe isn’t rejecting technology. It’s reclaiming ownership of it.
AI sweeps into US clinical practice at record speed, with two-thirds of physicians and 86% of health systems using it in 2024. That uptake represents a 78% jump in physician adoption over the previous year, ending decades of technological resistance. Clinics are rolling out AI scribes that transcribe visits in real time, highlight symptoms, suggest diagnoses and generate billing codes. The article also cites AI systems matching specialist accuracy in imaging, flagging sepsis faster than clinical teams, and an OpenEvidence model scoring 100% on the US medical licensing exam. Experts quoted say that in a healthcare sector built on efficiency and profit, AI turns patient encounters into commodified data streams and sidelines human connection. They contend the technology entrenches systemic biases, accelerates physician deskilling and hands more control over care decisions to corporations.
Snap agrees to integrate Perplexity’s AI search engine into My AI, and Perplexity will pay $400 million in cash and equity. The feature is slated to appear in the app early next year. The arrangement grants Perplexity exposure to Snapchat’s 940 million users and lets Snap begin recognizing revenue from the deal in 2026. Snap announced the partnership while reporting Q3 2025 revenue of $1.51 billion, up 10%, and a narrowed loss of $104 million. The $400 million price tag highlights the premium AI firms will pay for built-in scale. For Snap, the agreement converts its My AI feature from a user perk into a material revenue source.
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