November 2025

The world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, faces new threats from its biggest competitor: Google's Gemini.

Anthropic PBC is rolling out a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model that is designed to be better at automating coding and office tasks, part of an effort to compete with OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google for business customers. The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, is more capable than previous versions at software engineering work, like fixing bugs, without needing a user’s help, Anthropic said. Opus 4.5 is also intended to be better at carrying out complicated multistep tasks on a user’s computer and the internet. 

Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does.

A new X feature revealed that several pro-Trump accounts with large followings are not US-based, despite content and some bios suggesting otherwise. On X account profiles, clicking on an account’s date of creation reveals the country or region where the account is based.