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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.

Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

In 2016, Microsoft Research launched Project Malmo, an open-source AI experimentation platform built on top of Minecraft. Around NeurIPS 2019, MineRL released an OpenAI Gym interface for Minecraft with a large dataset of human gameplay and the flagship ‘Obtain Diamond’ task. In 2022, OpenAI trained a Video PreTraining (VPT) model on 70,000 hours of YouTube Minecraft videos, enabling the agent to craft wooden and stone tools and a diamond pickaxe after 24,000 actions. Baritone is an open-source Minecraft bot with advanced pathfinding, using an A-like search and reportedly 30× faster path calculation than its predecessor. In early 2025, Ryan Boulds
27 July 2025
Augmented AI Revolution: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping 2025

Augmented AI Revolution: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping 2025

1955: John McCarthy coined “artificial intelligence” as a term while early thinkers debated augmenting human intelligence. 1960: J.C.R. Licklider outlined “man-computer symbiosis” in which humans and computers cooperate to solve problems. 1962: Douglas Engelbart published a framework for augmenting human intellect to increase problem-solving capability. 1990: Steve Jobs described computers as a “bicycle for our minds,” illustrating how technology multiplies human capability. 2019: Stanford University launched the Institute for Human-Centered AI to focus research on AI that improves the human condition. 2020: Amazon Web Services announced “Amazon Augmented AI” to manage workflows that involve AI plus human reviewers via Mechanical
27 July 2025
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AI vs Data Science: Shocking Differences, Surprising Overlaps, and the 2025 Showdown

AI vs Data Science: Shocking Differences, Surprising Overlaps, and the 2025 Showdown

In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using some form of AI, up from 55% in 2023, according to Stanford’s AI Index. Stanford’s 2025 AI Index notes that the inference cost for running models at GPT‑3.5 level fell about 280× from late 2022 to late 2024, enabling cheaper deployment. The European Union’s AI Act entered into force in August 2024, banning systems posing an unacceptable risk and requiring high‑risk AI to disclose AI‑generated content and publish summaries of copyrighted training data, with full compliance by 2026. JPMorgan’s COiN (Contract Intelligence) AI system reviews legal documents and has reduced the time lawyers
27 July 2025
The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

Vertex AI is Google’s unified platform for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale, integrating data preparation, pipelines, MLOps, and model monitoring with AutoML. Gemini is Google’s multimodal foundation family for text, code, and images, with Gemini 2.5 “Flash” announced in 2025 as a smaller, cost-efficient variant, plus Lyria for music and Imagen for images and Veo for video. Vertex AI Model Garden lets customers deploy Google’s own models or popular open-source models on Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s AI hardware includes Cloud TPU v5e for training and the upcoming 7th‑generation TPU named “Ironwood” for inference, with TPU v5e
27 July 2025
AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed on a General Motors assembly line. From 1966 to 1972, Stanford Research Institute’s Shakey became the first mobile robot to reason about its actions using AI. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced the first robot arm with six electromechanical axes. In 1981, IBM introduced a robotic arm controlled by a microcomputer. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2002, iRobot released the Roomba, the first widely adopted consumer robot. In 2012, AlexNet achieved a breakthrough in image recognition, signaling the deep learning renaissance. In 2016, Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo
27 July 2025
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GPT-5 vs Gemini: Inside 2025’s High-Stakes Frontier AI Showdown

GPT-5 vs Gemini: Inside 2025’s High-Stakes Frontier AI Showdown

Gemini Ultra achieved 90.0% on the MMLU benchmark, the first AI to exceed human expert performance. GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) was introduced by 2025, handling text, images, and audio with about 232 ms response times and powering the free ChatGPT tier in mid-2025. Claude Opus 4 is billed as the world’s best coding model, achieving 72–73% on coding benchmarks and enabling extended tool use. Claude Sonnet 4 emphasizes efficiency and reliability with improved instruction-following and memory through local-file storage for long-term recall. Meta released LLaMA 4 in April 2025, featuring a Mixture-of-Experts design and reportedly over 400 billion parameters. Gemini 1.0
27 July 2025
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AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

DALL·E 3, released in late 2023 and integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator, generated over 1 billion images in its first months. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini) launched in 2022 and has produced over 10 million images. StarryAI uses the backend Argo (powered by Stable Diffusion) and offers 1000+ stylistic presets, with a free plan of up to 25 images per day, watermarked outputs, and a daily 5-credit limit. Stable Diffusion, launched in 2022 as an open-source model, underpins tools like NightCafe, Leonardo.ai, and Hugging Face Spaces and supports user-trained custom models. In February 2025, Christie’s held a dedicated AI-generated art
27 July 2025
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Mach 2 Marvels: The Epic Saga of Dassault’s Mirage Fighter Jets

Mach 2 Marvels: The Epic Saga of Dassault’s Mirage Fighter Jets

In 1958, the Mirage III became the first Western European combat aircraft to exceed Mach 2 in level flight. The Mirage IIIC entered French service by 1961. The Mirage F1 first flew in 1966 and could land about 60 knots slower than the Mirage III. The Mirage 2000 first flew in 1978 and introduced fly-by-wire control with the Snecma M53-P2 engine delivering 64 kN dry and 95 kN with afterburner. The Mirage 4000 first flew in 1979 as a twin-engine “Super Mirage” with canards and a potential load up to 8 tons, but only one prototype was built and it
25 July 2025
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Wall Street Shocked by AI Surge: What Happened on July 24–25?

Wall Street Shocked by AI Surge: What Happened on July 24–25?

On July 24, 2025, the S&P 500 rose 0.07% to a fresh record close, its fourth consecutive such close. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.18% to its own all-time high on July 24, 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7% on July 24, 2025. <liAlphabet (GOOGL) posted a strong Q2 beat and announced a $10 billion boost to its 2025 capital expenditure budget, now $85 billion, to expand AI chips and data centers. Alphabet’s cloud division revenue jumped about 32% in the quarter. Nvidia rose 1.7% on July 24, 2025, providing the biggest lift to the S&P 500. Intel unveiled
25 July 2025
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2025–2026 Smartphone Mega-Preview: Flagships, Foldables, Gaming & Future Phones

2025–2026 Smartphone Mega-Preview: Flagships, Foldables, Gaming & Future Phones

Apple plans the iPhone 17 lineup for September 2025, including iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and the new iPhone 17 Air, with a 3nm A19 chip and 120Hz ProMotion across all models. The iPhone 4 SE (SE 4) is expected in Spring 2025 as a 6.1-inch OLED budget iPhone with an A18 3nm chip, Face ID, possibly an in-house 5G modem, and a price around $499. Samsung released the Galaxy S25 Ultra in January 2025, featuring a 6.8-inch display, Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy SoC, a 200MP main camera, and S‑Pen support, priced about $1,199. Samsung also rolled
25 July 2025
Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300 satellites in the past year, bringing the total in orbit to over 7,000. By early 2025, Starlink was adding about 5 terabits per second of capacity per week to the constellation. Starlink typically delivers 50–200 Mbps download speeds, with the US median peak around 200
25 July 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX’s Action-Packed 48 Hours: Starlink Outage Shakes Users, Satellite Phone Service Debuts, Launch & Starship Updates

From July 24 to July 25, 2025, Starlink endured one of its largest outages, knocking tens of thousands offline with more than 60,000 outage reports before service largely returned in about 2.5 hours. Starlink’s outage was attributed by VP of Engineering Michael Nicolls to a failure of key internal software services that operate the core network, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly apologized on X. Starlink now serves over 6 million users across roughly 140 countries. On July 24, 2025, T-Mobile launched T-Satellite, a satellite-to-cell texting service, after a six‑month beta with nearly 2 million participants and up to 30,000
25 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Corning stock price hits record close — what’s driving GLW and the next big test

Corning stock price hits record close — what’s driving GLW and the next big test

7 February 2026
Corning shares jumped 8.3% to a record $122.16 Friday, gaining 11% over two sessions amid strong demand for AI infrastructure stocks. The move follows a $6 billion optical fiber deal with Meta and upgraded company forecasts. Shares traded as high as $122.56 and rose 0.6% after hours. COO Avery Nelson sold 1,894 shares for tax withholding, retaining 66,050.
PepsiCo stock: €2.5 billion bond deal lands as investors size up the price-cut gamble

PepsiCo stock: €2.5 billion bond deal lands as investors size up the price-cut gamble

7 February 2026
PepsiCo priced €2.5 billion in euro notes across four maturities, with settlement set for Feb. 11, according to an SEC filing. The company plans to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, including repaying commercial paper. Shares closed at $170.49 Friday, up 1.8%. PepsiCo is also cutting U.S. snack prices by up to 15% after consumer pushback.
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