Multi-source technology news digests
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5 on Tuesday, claiming the model achieves "near-human reasoning" on standardised benchmarks and can autonomously complete multi-step coding and research tasks. The announcement triggered emergency sessions at the EU AI Office and renewed calls in the US Congress for binding safety evaluations before frontier model deployments. Competitors Google DeepMind and Anthropic both said they were accelerating their own next-generation releases.