AI Insights. Your weekly update : From June 11- June 16, 2025
From chatbot meltdowns to AI baristas — this week in AI was as unpredictable as it was groundbreaking.
From June 11- June 16, 2025
Summary: This week in AI brought a mix of controversy, innovation, and odd surprises. Sam Altman and OpenAI faced growing scrutiny, with reports accusing the company of misleading the public on ChatGPT’s impact and bizarre chatbot behavior, including telling users to alert the media. ChatGPT also experienced service outages, frustrating users across the globe. Meanwhile, the Trump administration appears to be quietly working on its own government-backed AI platform, raising questions about political influence in AI development. On the corporate front, Starbucks is testing a new generative AI assistant to support baristas, and Klarna’s CEO is now answering user calls through an AI-powered hotline. Apple also announced new ChatGPT integrations into its Image Playground, continuing the trend of embedding AI into everyday tools. The line between utility and unpredictability in AI continues to blur.
Key News
• Sam Altman’s Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder - Would you believe OpenAI if it told you AI is fine for the planet, actually? (Gizmodo.com, 2025-06-11)
• ChatGPT Tells Users to Alert the Media That It Is Trying to ‘Break’ People: Report - Machine-made delusions are mysteriously getting deeper and out of control. (Gizmodo.com, 2025-06-13)
• ChatGPT is having some issues - OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down for some users after the platform started experiencing performance issues on Tuesday morning. The chatbot responded with a “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong” error message to my colleague after failing to load,… (The Verge, 2025-06-10)
• The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot - The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI,” 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site. The project appears to be run by the General Services Administra… (The Verge, 2025-06-10)
• Starbucks To Roll Out Microsoft Azure OpenAI Assistant For Baristas - Starbucks is piloting a generative AI assistant called "Green Dot Assist" to streamline barista tasks and improve service speed, with plans for a broader rollout in fiscal 2026. The assistant is built on Microsoft Azure's OpenAI platform. CNBC reports: Instea… (Slashdot.org, 2025-06-10)
• Klarna’s CEO is now taking your calls — over an AI hotline - Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already used AI to replace himself during earnings reports, and now Klarna is using AI to clone him another way: through an AI-powered phone hotline. The hotline is now open for users to provide feedback to an interactiv… (The Verge, 2025-06-11)
• ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground - Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji.
Sam Altman’s Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder
Gizmodo.com | 2025-06-11
Would you believe OpenAI if it told you AI is fine for the planet, actually?
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-lies-about-chatgpt-are-growing-bolder-2000614431
ChatGPT is having some issues
The Verge | 2025-06-10
OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down for some users after the platform started experiencing performance issues on Tuesday morning. The chatbot responded with a “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong” error message to my colleague after failing to load,…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/684141/openai-chatgpt-sora-outage-issues-june-2025
The Trump administration appears to be planning its own chatbot
The Verge | 2025-06-10
The Trump administration is working on an “AI.gov” website and API to “accelerate government innovation with AI,” 404 Media found based on code posted to Github and an early version of the site. The project appears to be run by the General Services Administra…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/684579/ai-api-trump-administration-doge-gsa
ChatGPT Tells Users to Alert the Media That It Is Trying to ‘Break’ People: Report
Gizmodo.com | 2025-06-13
Machine-made delusions are mysteriously getting deeper and out of control.
Starbucks To Roll Out Microsoft Azure OpenAI Assistant For Baristas
Slashdot.org | 2025-06-10
Starbucks is piloting a generative AI assistant called "Green Dot Assist" to streamline barista tasks and improve service speed, with plans for a broader rollout in fiscal 2026. The assistant is built on Microsoft Azure's OpenAI platform. CNBC reports: Instea…
Read more: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/2032225/starbucks-to-roll-out-microsoft-azure-openai-assistant-for-baristas
Klarna’s CEO is now taking your calls — over an AI hotline
The Verge | 2025-06-11
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already used AI to replace himself during earnings reports, and now Klarna is using AI to clone him another way: through an AI-powered phone hotline. The hotline is now open for users to provide feedback to an interactiv…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/685814/klarna-ceo-calls-ai-hotline
ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground
MacRumors | 2025-06-09
Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji.
ChatGPT image generation is now available directly in Image Playground, with new ChatGPT styles, such as Oil Painting, Vector, Anime, Print, and Watercolor. There is also a new …
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/chatgpt-integration-coming-to-image-playground/
Apple's Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance
Slashdot.org | 2025-06-10
Apple's latest AI models continue to lag behind competitors, according to the company's own benchmark testing it disclosed this week. The tech giant's newest "Apple On-Device" model, which runs locally on iPhones and other devices, performed only "comparably"…
AI Isn't Magic, It's Maths
Substack.com | 2025-06-11
What You Really Need to Know
Read more: https://zerofluff.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-magic-its-maths
Microsoft Edge is getting an AI-powered browser history that works with typos
The Verge | 2025-06-10
Microsoft has started testing a new feature for its Edge browser that adds an AI-powered search to browsing history. This new “enhanced search” feature lets you find websites in your browser history even if you use a phrase, synonym, or even a typo that’s sim…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/684195/microsoft-edge-ai-browser-history-search-feature
Microsoft’s new Copilot Vision can ‘see’ your apps on Windows
The Verge | 2025-06-12
Microsoft is launching Copilot Vision for Windows today, an extension of its AI assistant that lets you share your screen or apps so that Copilot can do things like coach you through using Adobe Photoshop features or analyze the photos and webpages you’re loo…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/news/685963/microsoft-copilot-vision-windows-launch
Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games
The Verge | 2025-06-13
The Switch 2 is a hit (and a supply chain success story). Microsoft is starting to show off its plan for the future of Xbox. And everywhere you look, there are reasons to think we're headed toward a very different kind of gaming device. Maybe it'll be even mo…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/686637/switch-2-xbox-ally-portable-gaming-vergecast
Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox console, and nobody noticed
The Verge | 2025-06-12
I feel like a broken record, but I've been writing for more than a year that the next Xbox console will be more PC-like. Now, I think Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox plans while announcing its partnership with Asus to bring two Xbox Ally handhelds to …
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/686101/microsoft-xbox-next-gen-console-handheld-hints-notepad
Enterprise AI Adoption Stalls As Inferencing Costs Confound Cloud Customers
Slashdot.org | 2025-06-14
According to market analyst firm Canalys, enterprise adoption of AI is slowing due to unpredictable and often high costs associated with model inferencing in the cloud. Despite strong growth in cloud infrastructure spending, businesses are increasingly scruti…
AMD debuts AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerator chips with 35X better inferencing
VentureBeat | 2025-06-12
AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, which are four times faster on AI compute and 35 times faster on inferencing.