AI News – Aug 18, 2025
– OpenAI faced challenges with GPT-5 launch, reverting to GPT-4o for ChatGPT users due to performance issues.
– Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay 15% of AI chip sales revenue to US gov over China security concerns, affecting US-China tech competition.
– Perplexity offered $34.5 billion for Google’s Chrome browser amid the antitrust ruling, influencing the browser market.
– Cleveland Clinic and Piramidal collaborate on an AI model using EEG data for brain health monitoring, promising real-time patient care improvement.
– Anthropic acquired Humanloop talent, strengthening its capabilities in evaluation and enterprise-scale AI applications.
– Google’s Gemini update allows AI to remember interactions for tailored responses, prompting data privacy discussions.