As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz.
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2025/08/

# AI in August 2025

7 events: 3 major, 1 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 2025-08-26: [Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ('Nano Banana')](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-26-gemini-2-5-flash-image/). Source: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/
- 2025-08-20: [GPT-5 Pro proves an improved convex-optimisation bound, which humans had already surpassed](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-20-gpt-5-pro-convex-optimization-proof/). Source: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1958198661139009862
- 2025-08-14: [Generative AI designs new antibiotics that kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-14-mit-generative-ai-antibiotics/). Source: https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814
- 2025-08-08: [Meta acquires WaveForms AI, the voice startup of ex-OpenAI GPT-4o voice lead Alexis Conneau](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-08-meta-acquires-waveforms/). Source: https://x.com/alex_conneau/status/2103143665577423347
- 2025-08-07: [OpenAI launches GPT-5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-07-gpt-5/). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/
- 2025-08-05: [Google DeepMind's Genie 3 generates interactive worlds in real time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-05-genie-3/). Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/
- 2025-08-05: [OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open-weight LLMs since GPT-2](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-05-gpt-oss/). Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/

Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2025/07/
Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2025/09/