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Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with

18 July 2025

OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on July 17, 2025, turning ChatGPT into a personal AI assistant capable of autonomously handling multi-step tasks. The agent uses a built-in “virtual computer” to browse the web, fill forms, run code, and produce Excel spreadsheets

17 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Digital Assistants · Future Technology · Productivity · Tech News

AI Pathology Breakthrough: Roche’s Lung Cancer Diagnostic Makes FDA History

In April 2025, Roche’s Ventana TROP2 (EPR20043) RxDx test became the first AI-powered diagnostic to receive FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. The device pairs an immunohistochemistry stain for TROP2 with a digital pathology AI algorithm that runs in Roche’s Navify system

17 July 2025

AI in Healthcare · FDA Approvals · Medical Diagnostics · NYSE:AZN · NYSE:RHHBY · Oncology · Technological Innovation

Europe’s New AI Code of Conduct: Inside the Plan to Tame Big Tech’s Models by 2025

The final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was delivered to the European Commission on July 10, 2025. The EU AI Act will apply on August 2, 2025, with a one-year grace period for new GPAI models and two years for

17 July 2025

AI Regulation · Big Tech · Ethics · European Union · Policy

AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Gemini-Powered AI That Invents Algorithms and Breaks a 56-Year Record

In mid-2025, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that uses Google’s Gemini LLMs, an evolutionary search process, and automated testing to autonomously design and improve algorithms. AlphaEvolve generates, tests, and evolves programs in an autonomous pipeline, refining entire

17 July 2025

AI Research · Algorithm Innovation · DeepMind · Gemini · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Technological Breakthroughs

32B AI Model Trained by a Swarm of Volunteer GPUs – Inside INTELLECT-2’s Decentralized Revolution

In May 2025, Prime Intellect unveiled INTELLECT-2, a 32B-parameter LLM trained on a globally distributed swarm of volunteer GPUs. INTELLECT-2 is the first model of its scale trained via fully asynchronous reinforcement learning across hundreds of heterogeneous, permissionless machines on

17 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Community Projects · Distributed Computing · Large Language Models · Open Source

The “HTML of the AI Era”? Microsoft’s NLWeb Aims to Put ChatGPT on Every Website

NLWeb is an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at Build 2025 to put ChatGPT-like conversational interfaces on websites. NLWeb works by indexing a site’s content using HTML, RSS feeds, and Schema.org metadata and exposing it to AI models via a

17 July 2025

AI · Chatbots · Future of the Web · Microsoft · NASDAQ:MSFT · Web Technology

Mixture-of-Memories (MoM): The “Linear Attention” Breakthrough That Doesn’t Forget Long Contexts

MoM was released in May 2025 as a linear-attention sequence model that preserves long-term context without forgetting. MoM breaks the single-memory bottleneck by maintaining multiple independent memory states and using a token router to assign information to memory slots. A

17 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Attention Mechanisms · Deep Learning · Machine Learning Research · NLP

Astronomers Spot a 7-Billion-Year-Old Interstellar Comet – Could It Be the Oldest Ever Seen?

On July 1, 2025, the ATLAS telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, detected 3I/ATLAS near Jupiter’s orbit with a hyperbolic, interstellar trajectory. 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object identified, following 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Estimates place 3I/ATLAS at

17 July 2025

Astronomy · Comets · Discoveries · Science News · Space

Nothing Phone 3: Big Leaks Confirmed, 50MP Quad Cameras, and How It Compares to 2025’s Best

The Nothing Phone 3 was officially unveiled on July 1, 2025, with pre-orders opening July 4 and a full market release on July 15, 2025. Prices start at $799 for 12GB RAM/256GB storage and $899 for 16GB RAM/512GB, with India

17 July 2025

2025 Tech · Camera Phones · Leaks · Nothing Phone · Smartphones

Meet “Ammonite” – Fossil World at Solar System’s Edge Challenges Planet Nine Theory

Ammonite is the informal name for the trans-Neptunian object 2023 KQ14, discovered by the FOSSIL survey with Subaru’s 8.2-meter telescope in early 2023. Follow-up observations in July 2024 with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and archival data from 2005 extended its observational

17 July 2025

Astronomy · Fossils · Planet Nine · Solar System · Space Science

Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10a – Rumors, Leaks and Everything We Know

Pixel 10’s AI Reveal, Foldable Phone Showdowns, and iOS 26’s “Liquid Glass” Revolution – Mobile Tech News Roundup

Google scheduled its Made by Google event for August 20, 2025 in New York City, where four Pixel models—Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold—will debut alongside the Pixel Watch 4. The Pixel 10 family

17 July 2025

AI · Android · Foldables · iOS · Mobile News