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12 October 2025 - AI News Quiz for Adults

Welcome to the 12 October 2025 AI News Quiz for adults. Each question is based on real stories from this week and written in clear everyday language. If you do not know an answer, take a guess. You will be told right away whether you were right, and each question includes a quick insight to explain what happened.

Expect a mix of science, policy and business news with a few light laughs to keep things lively. The aim is to help you stay informed without the jargon and to build confidence with current affairs in AI. Relax, have a go, and see how many you can get right.

1 .

Rishi Sunak announced a post Number Ten side hustle. What did he sign up to do?

Chief biscuit taster at the Cabinet Office

Senior adviser to Apple and Nvidia

Senior adviser to Microsoft and Anthropic

Coach of England’s AI cricket team

Reuters and the UK government ethics watchdog ACOBA reported that Rishi Sunak accepted part time advisory roles at Microsoft and Anthropic, with conditions including a lobbying ban. He said he would donate earnings to The Richmond Project. The announcement sparked debate about links between policy and industry.

2 .

Google DeepMind unveiled a Computer Use model. What is it built to do?

Let an AI safely click, type and scroll to complete tasks

Bake cupcakes using the laptop heat

Replace your screen with holograms

Make every app tell jokes on command

DeepMind introduced Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, a model for agent style tools that can operate software like a careful helper. It reads the screen and generates actions such as clicking, typing and scrolling to finish tasks under safety controls. It is about productivity, not pastries or holograms.

3 .

Which chip maker did OpenAI sign a multi year deal with, including stock warrants tied to milestones?

Nvidia, with a sweeping multi year supply plan for next gen accelerators and cloud credits bundled in

Intel, via a broad agreement covering foundry services, CPUs and experimental Gaudi accelerators for training at scale

Arm, through a licensing arrangement plus equity options to co design custom inference silicon for partners

AMD

Reuters reported OpenAI signed a multi year agreement with AMD to secure AI chips, plus a warrant that could let OpenAI buy up to about 160 million AMD shares if milestones are met. Associated Press covered the same terms. The deal aims to increase compute supply for training and inference.

4 .

After the UK watchdog ruling on Google Search, what might new users see when setting up a device?

A quiz you must pass before you can search

A choice screen to pick your search engine

A law that every result must include a cat video

Google Search turned off unless you pay a fee

The UK Competition and Markets Authority gave Google Strategic Market Status, which lets it require changes such as choice screens so people can pick alternatives when they first set up a device. It is about boosting competition and user control, not cat videos or search fees.

5 .

What did the UK and India launch to boost smart and secure networks?

A weekend satellite Wi Fi festival with pop up towers

The India UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre

A joint ban on 5G masts near cricket grounds

A plan to swap home broadband for carrier pigeons

The UK and India announced the India UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre, linking universities and industry to test AI enabled networking, non terrestrial networks and telecoms cybersecurity, taking ideas from lab trials to real world use. It is aimed at faster, safer communications for both countries.

6 .

UK researchers trialled an AI space spotter. What could it actually do?

Pick out real sky transients like supernovae from false alarms using only a few example images

Rename constellations after biscuits and rank them by dunkability

Redraw telescope photos into comic strips with dramatic captions and speech bubbles

Predict next year meteor showers using tea leaves and a webcam

An Oxford and Google Cloud team showed Gemini could tell genuine cosmic events, such as exploding stars, from artefacts using around 15 example images and plain English prompts, reaching about 93 percent accuracy and explaining its reasoning. That helps astronomers focus on real alerts faster.

7 .

What approach did the Bank of England governor say the UK should take on AI?

Hand the economy to a chatbot and see what happens

Freeze all new AI projects until there is a grand global treaty

Take a pragmatic, open minded approach and manage risks

Replace economic forecasts with movie style robot predictions

In a speech released ahead of delivery in Edinburgh, Andrew Bailey said Britain should be pragmatic and open minded about AI, understand what it can and cannot do, then focus on managing real risks rather than just warning about them.

8 .

Which AI company said it will open its first office in India in 2026?

OpenAI, expanding design and support teams across Bengaluru

xAI, setting up a research lab focused on world models

Anthropic

Google DeepMind, launching a new South Asia HQ for partnerships

Reuters reported that Anthropic will open its first India office in Bengaluru in early 2026 to support growing demand for its Claude tools. Anthropic updates the same week echoed the plan, highlighting customer support and developer outreach.

9 .

Which brand teamed up with OpenAI to try its Sora 2 video tool for design work?

Mattel, to turn toy sketches into short concept videos

Nike, to auto storyboard trainers doing parkour

IKEA, to film flat pack assembly guides with cartoons

Lego, to generate brick by brick movie trailers

Reuters reported that Mattel partnered with OpenAI to pilot Sora 2, letting designers convert early toy sketches into quick video mock ups. It is about speeding up idea sharing, not replacing designers. The trial was announced during OpenAI developer events that week.

10 .

What did UK and US regulators announce about AI in healthcare?

A year long ban on all AI medical tools

Merging the MHRA and FDA into one super agency

Replacing doctors with chatbots on weekends

A new collaboration to speed safe access to AI medical tech

The UK MHRA and the US FDA said they will work more closely on medical technologies and AI, aiming to get safe tools to patients faster via aligned processes and reliance routes. The MHRA also flagged new UK work on responsible AI in the NHS.

Author: Tara Kemp