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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Google Pixel Watch 4: Big Battery Boost, New Features & All the Latest Rumors

2025 Smartwatch Showdown: Google Pixel Watch 4 vs Galaxy Watch 7 vs Apple Watch Series 10 – Which Reigns Supreme?

Pixel Watch 4 will be offered in 41mm and 45mm cases, features an Actua 360 OLED display peaking at 3,000 nits, and is roughly 50% brighter than Pixel Watch 3’s 2,000 nits. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 is expected to last around 30 hours with Always-On Display, while the 45mm version reaches about 40 hours, with a 459 mAh battery in the 45mm and a claimed 25% faster charging via a new Quick Charge dock. Galaxy Watch 7 comes in 40mm and 44mm with Sapphire Crystal display glass and IP68 plus 5 ATM rating, using a 300 mAh (40mm) /
8 August 2025
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The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development. July 2022: The BigScience project released BLOOM at 176 billion parameters, covering 46 languages and released under the Responsible AI License. May 2022: Meta AI released OPT at 175 billion parameters under a non-commercial research license, including a logbook documenting the training process. February 2023: Meta AI unveiled LLaMA with 7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B models, and the weights leaked
8 August 2025
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Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Genie 3, announced by Google DeepMind in August 2025, is the first real-time, interactive world model that can generate dynamic 3D environments from text prompts and let users explore them. Genie 1 (early 2024) produced 256×256 2D scenes with glitches, Genie 2 (late 2024) moved to 3D with 360p at 15 FPS for about 10–20 seconds, and Genie 3 (August 2025) delivers 720p at 24 FPS with multiple minutes of interactive play and about 1 minute of full consistency. Genie 3 uses an auto-regressive, memory-enabled video generator that remembers past frames to maintain coherence, built on Genie 2’s diffusion-based latent-transformer
8 August 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and is the default model in ChatGPT for all users, both free and paid. GPT-5 is a unified model with an internal router that automatically balances speed and thorough reasoning, and it supports a 400,000-token context window. GPT-5 is multimodal (text and vision) and includes a built-in voice mode for natural spoken conversations, with image interpretation and real-time translation capabilities. GPT-5 demonstrates agentic capabilities by reliably chaining dozens of API calls and tools, achieving a 97% score on OpenAI’s Tau² tool-use benchmark. GPT-5 introduces variants GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, GPT-5-nano, and GPT-5-Pro, with pay-as-you-go API pricing
8 August 2025
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025, delivering extremely large context windows (hundreds of thousands of tokens) and adding Claude Code for live coding tasks and advanced document analysis. Perplexity launched Perplexity Max in July 2025, introducing the Comet autonomous agent, and by May 2025 it processed about 780 million queries per month, up 20% month over month. By 2025 each service offers premium plans around $20
8 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and was rolled out to all ChatGPT users, including the free tier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5 as “clearly generally intelligent” and a “PhD-level” expert, a step toward AGI but not AGI yet. GPT-5 features “Think Harder” mode with test-time compute that automatically allocates more processing power for hard questions. GPT-5 provides a 400,000-token context window, vastly larger than GPT-4’s 32,000 tokens, enabling long documents and conversations. GPT-5 is billed as OpenAI’s strongest coding model, capable of generating working software end-to-end from a single prompt and even building a fully functional web app
8 August 2025
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Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

In late 2024, MiniMax released Hailuo’s first text-to-video model “Video-01,” and its current Hailuo-02 can generate 6‑second 720p videos at ~25 fps from text prompts and images. As of January 2025, Hailuo added a multi-shot “Director Mode” for controlled shot composition and an audio-generation feature to add sound or speech to videos. December 2024 saw Pollo launch as an all-in-one multimodal platform integrating 12+ models (including Kling, Runway Gen, and Hailuo) with its native Pollo v1.5 for text-to-video, image-to-video, and some video-to-video tasks up to 60 seconds on select modes and up to 1080p/4K outputs on certain models. Pollo differentiates
8 August 2025
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Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship raster editor, available on Windows, macOS, and iPad, with Creative Cloud integration and AI features like Neural Filters and Generative Fill. Lightroom Classic offers end-to-end photography workflow with a library, Develop module, non-destructive edits, batch processing, presets, and seamless round-trips to Photoshop. GIMP is free and open source, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux), and GIMP 3.0 (March 2025) introduces a GTK3 UI overhaul plus live layer effects. GIMP runs natively on Linux, the only one of the three to do so. Photoshop uses Camera Raw for RAW processing, Lightroom has built-in RAW processing via the ACR engine,
8 August 2025
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Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

The AI Chatbot Showdown of 2025: Grok vs DeepSeek vs Perplexity

Grok is Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot built on the Grok LLM family, with Grok-4 released in July 2025 and Grok-3 trained in a 200,000-GPU data center codenamed Colossus, plus built-in web search by late 2024 and multimodal image generation via Aurora. Grok-4 is integrated into Tesla vehicles as an onboard voice assistant as of July 2025, and the platform introduced Companions avatars and a Reasoning/Think mode during 2025. Grok-1 weights were open-sourced in early 2024, but Grok-4 remains proprietary, with consumer access initially via X Premium+ and later broadened to a trial for all X users in February 2025. In
7 August 2025
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Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and includes a Real-time Canvas for sketch-to-image editing and AI-assisted refinements. Simplified claims over 15 million creators and positions itself as an all-in-one marketing platform combining design, AI writing, video editing, and social scheduling with Multi-Agent Workflows. Canva incorporated Leonardo’s technology behind the scenes after the 2024 acquisition, including use of the Phoenix image model in its Magic Studio. Leonardo’s collaboration features include Leonardo for Teams and private cloud
7 August 2025
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AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

Humanize AI is marketed as an “AI to Human Text Converter” that can rewrite input from ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing, Jasper, Grammarly, or QuillBot into “100% human-like” content, with no sign-up required for basic use and paid tiers for higher volumes. It offers multiple tones and modes—Standard, Formal, Informal, Simple, Flowing—and two rewrite depths called Basic and Ultra. It advertises AI detection shielding, claiming to bypass detectors such as Originality.ai, GPTZero, and Turnitin, while preserving SEO-critical keywords. It supports multilingual output (English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and more) and bundles a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, and its own AI content
7 August 2025
Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney released v6 in 2024 and v7 in early 2025, delivering improved prompt accuracy, higher photorealism, and new text-to-video and 3D capabilities. DALL·E 3 is integrated with ChatGPT (via GPT-4) to expand and optimize prompts, and offers a vivid vs natural style toggle plus an HD mode via API. Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) released in 2023 as Stability AI’s photorealism flagship, with ~3.5 billion parameters and broad open-source flexibility. SDXL can generate legible text within images much more reliably than Midjourney or DALL·E. Prompt fidelity varies: DALL·E 3 shows the strongest fidelity to instructions, Midjourney tends to interpret creatively, and
7 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Vodafone shares steady up after Q3 wobble — Germany, buyback and next results now set the tone

Vodafone shares steady up after Q3 wobble — Germany, buyback and next results now set the tone

7 February 2026
Vodafone shares rose 1.47% to 110.60p Friday, recovering part of Thursday’s 4.68% drop after a Q3 update. Group revenue climbed 6.5% to €10.5 billion, but Germany’s 0.7% service revenue growth missed some forecasts. Vodafone launched a new €500 million buyback tranche, bringing total buybacks since May to €3.5 billion. Investors remain focused on Germany’s pace and cash flow execution.
NatWest Group stock: buyback filing and Rightmove mortgage deal set up a busy week

NatWest Group stock: buyback filing and Rightmove mortgage deal set up a busy week

7 February 2026
NatWest shares closed up 1.45% at 659.4 pence Friday, buoyed by a buyback of 797,428 shares and a new digital mortgage deal with Rightmove. The Bank of England held rates at 3.75% but signaled possible cuts, with markets pricing in two reductions for 2026. NatWest plans to expand its Accelerator community to 50,000 members by 2026. Annual results are due Feb. 13.
Unilever share price holds at 5,250p as results week looms — what investors watch next

Unilever share price holds at 5,250p as results week looms — what investors watch next

7 February 2026
Unilever shares closed flat at 5,250p in London Friday, underperforming the FTSE 100’s 0.6% gain. The company issued 4.2 million new shares for employee plans, bringing total shares to over 2.18 billion. Investors await Q4 and full-year results on Feb. 12, with analyst consensus pointing to 3.9% Q4 sales growth. Unilever’s U.S. ADR rose 0.8% to $72.12.
BP share price near 52-week high ahead of Feb 10 earnings as buyback runs on

BP share price near 52-week high ahead of Feb 10 earnings as buyback runs on

7 February 2026
BP shares closed up 1.9% at 478 pence Friday, just below a 52-week high, as the company continued buybacks ahead of next week’s results. BP repurchased 2.789 million shares on February 6. Oil prices firmed on geopolitical risk, with Brent at $68.05 a barrel, but sector outlook remains uncertain. Investors await BP’s earnings and dividend decision due Tuesday.
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