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Products & Launches
Tools & How-to
OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.5 to ChatGPT, Work and Codex users on September 8, adding a Sketch drawing tool, comment-based edits, and two new API models priced per token.
Tools & How-to
Cursor released Projects in beta on September 10, a system in which one coordinator agent delegates coding work to thousands of subagents, aimed at features, migrations and ongoing maintenance rather than single-chat tasks.
Products & Launches
OpenAI has opened GPT-Live-1, a voice model that can listen and speak at once, to developers via its API at $0.05 per minute, with 12 new voices and faster turn-taking.
Products & Launches
OpenAI has released a public beta Agents API that lets developers build cloud-based agents which run for hours, execute code and delegate to sub-agents, billed only by token and tool usage.
Learning & Careers
Learning & Careers
The University of Hawaii has released a free, 12-chapter online course teaching AI fundamentals and ethics, open to anyone, with no UH affiliation or login required.
Chips & Infrastructure
Sheffield-based SCI Semiconductor has raised £5 million to scale production of its ICENI memory-safe chips, built on Cambridge's CHERI architecture, after what it calls overwhelming demand.
Chips & Infrastructure
AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix will connect its next-generation Raptor accelerators to Nvidia's NVLink Fusion network, joining a growing list of custom-silicon makers building inside Nvidia's rack architecture.
AI at Work
JD.com set out a five-year plan to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones, and says it will retrain couriers as robotics service engineers.
Enterprise AI adoption, EU-27
9.27%
9.27% of Cyprus enterprises use AI — 23rd in the EU
People using generative AI, EU-27
44.2%
44.2% of people in Cyprus use generative AI — 7th in the EU
Europe’s AI Factories — and where Cyprus sits
19 + 13
19 AI Factories and 13 Antennas across the EU — Cyprus hosts an Antenna
| Rank | Country | % of enterprises (10+ employees) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denmark | 42.03% |
| 2 | Finland | 37.82% |
| 3 | Sweden | 35.04% |
| 4 | Belgium | 34.54% |
| 5 | Luxembourg | 33.61% |