Here are the latest technology news, business announcements, and trending AI tools this week in October 2025:
This Week’s Latest Technology News
- OpenAI introduced a new political bias evaluation system to measure and reduce bias in ChatGPT, showing GPT-5 models cut bias by 30% and that fewer than 0.01% of real-world responses display any political bias.
- Salesforce introduced a definitive agreement to acquire Apromore, enhancing its process intelligence and automation capabilities to advance its agentic process automation vision.
- Amazon introduced Quick Suite, a new AI platform that combines research, business intelligence, and automation to help users analyze data, find insights, and take action, all within a single workspace.
- Google introduced new AI-powered updates in Search and Discover to help users stay connected with trending topics, sports updates, and fresh web content.
- Facebook introduced local job listings in Marketplace, helping people in the U.S. find entry-level and trade jobs while making it easier for small businesses to hire locally.
- Oracle added new members to its Defense Ecosystem, advancing AI and cybersecurity innovation to strengthen national security across the US and allied nations.
- n8n introduced the AI Workflow Builder in version 1.115.0, allowing users to create automations from natural language prompts and streamline workflow creation.
- Google introduced a new Gemini-powered tool in Gmail that helps users suggest meeting times and create calendar invites automatically.
- Instagram updated Teen Accounts to follow PG-13 movie standards by default, introducing stricter content filters and new parental controls for safer teen experiences.
- OpenAI introduced the Expert Council on Well-being and AI, a group of leading researchers and clinicians advising on healthy and responsible interactions with ChatGPT and Sora.
- Google DeepMind releases Veo 3.1, adding richer audio, improved realism, and advanced editing tools to its AI video tool Flow for enhanced creative control.
- Meta is building a new AI-optimized data center in El Paso, Texas, that will scale to 1GW, create over 1,800 construction jobs, and prioritize sustainability and clean energy.
- Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a small model offering near frontier performance at one third the cost and over twice the speed of previous versions.
- Apple introduced the M5 chip, featuring over four times faster AI GPU compute, a stronger CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher memory bandwidth for the MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro.
- Salesforce Ventures has deployed over $850 million from its $1B AI fund, investing in 35 leading AI companies, including Anthropic, Cohere, and Runway.
- IBM launches three Oracle-validated AI agents for Oracle Fusion and plans WatsonX Orchestrate HR and Supply Chain agents, advancing enterprise agentic AI.
- Google Research launches DeepSomatic, an open-source AI model that accelerates cancer genetic analysis and outperforms existing methods in detecting key mutations.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- Pollo AI – turns text, images, or videos into styled, animated visuals, letting you generate and enhance videos and images by describing what you want.
- Akool – lets users create realistic avatars, face swaps, and multilingual videos using advanced generative AI tools.
- Jellypod – an AI podcast studio that lets you generate, edit, and publish podcast episodes using voice clones, scripted dialogue, and built-in distribution tools.
- Blotato – an all-in-one content engine that helps creators generate, remix, and distribute posts, faceless videos, and images across platforms using AI.
- Oracle AI – embeds generative and predictive intelligence across its cloud applications to automate workflows, surface data-driven insights, and help users make smarter decisions faster.
- MagicSchool – a platform built for educators and students that automates lesson planning, assessment creation, communication, and differentiated learning using AI.
- Otter AI – automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, conversations, and lectures in real time so you can focus on the discussion, not the notes.
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