AI news recap: New Meta AI app, ChatGPT’s bad model behavior [May 2025]

Just like AI models, AI news never sleeps.

Every week, we’re inundated with new models, products, industry rumors, legal and ethical crises, and viral trends. If that’s not enough, the rival AI hype/doom chatter online makes it hard to keep track of what’s really important. But we’ve sifted through it all to recap the most notable AI news of the week from the heavyweights like OpenAI and Google, as well as the AI ecosystem at large. Read our last recap, and check back next week for a new edition.

Another week, another batch of AI news coming your way.

This week, Meta held its inaugural LlamaCon event for AI developers, OpenAI struggled with model behavior, and LM Arena was accused of helping AI companies game the system. Congress also passed new laws protecting victims of deepfakes, and new research examines AI’s current and potential harms. Plus, Duolingo and Wikipedia have very different approaches to their new AI strategies.