AI News Roundup – September 26, 2025
Thomson Reuters CPO: These are the 4 non-negotiable pillars of professional agentic AI
The Thomson Reuters CPO outlines four essential pillars for professional-grade agentic AI: advanced reasoning, authoritative content, human experts, and access to professional tools
Introducing ChatGPT Pulse
OpenAI is previewing ChatGPT Pulse, a new proactive feature that uses your chat history to deliver personalized, topical updates each day
AI can now pass the hardest level of the CFA exam in a matter of minutes
Advanced AI models are now able to pass all three levels of the difficult Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam in a matter of minutes
Microsoft brings Anthropic AI models to 365 Copilot, diversifies beyond OpenAI
Microsoft is diversifying beyond OpenAI by integrating Anthropic’s Claude models into its 365 Copilot assistant and Copilot Studio
AI-generated voices now indistinguishable from real human voices
New research shows that AI-generated ‘voice clones’ are now virtually indistinguishable from real human voices, raising major security and ethical concerns
Why government AI initiatives will fail without workforce upskilling
Government AI initiatives are likely to fail without proper upskilling of the federal workforce, which is essential for responsible and effective use of the technology
Figma made its design tools more accessible to AI agents
Figma has updated its design tools to be more accessible to AI agents by allowing them to look directly at the underlying code of prototypes and designs
Former NotebookLM devs’ new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
The creators of Google’s NotebookLM have launched Huxe, a new audio-first app that generates personalized podcasts to help users with news and research
Alibaba challenges OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Nano Banana with new multimodal AI model
Alibaba is challenging top US models with Qwen3-Omni, its new flagship multimodal AI that it claims can outperform competitors in benchmark tests
New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials
MIT researchers have developed a tool called SCIGEN that steers generative AI to discover breakthrough materials with specific quantum properties

