Marcin Frąckiewicz, Author at TechStock²

OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

In April 2025 OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, featuring improved coding abilities and a 1,000,000 token context window. In March 2025 OpenAI released the new multimodal image generation model called 4o, enhancing image capabilities. In June 2025 OpenAI and Mattel announced an AI-powered toy collaboration, with the first Mattel product using OpenAI tech expected late 2025. In February 2025 OpenAI and SoftBank Group disclosed a plan to deploy Advanced Enterprise AI, including a Cristal intelligence system, with SoftBank committing $3 billion per year and a SB OpenAI Japan joint venture. In March 2025 veteran researcher Mark Chen was promoted

4 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Industry News·Innovation·OpenAI·Technology

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:01 CET

Microsoft laid off about 9,000 employees, roughly 4% of its global workforce, in July 2025, with the Xbox division heavily affected. Microsoft’s AI push includes an $80 billion investment in AI infrastructure for fiscal 2025, plus a $30 billion annual cloud deal with Oracle to support Project Stargate via Azure. Microsoft’s gaming division seismic changes include the cancellation of Perfect Dark and Everwild, the closure of The Initiative, and departures of Gregg Mayles and Matt Firor, while the Xbox hardware roadmap remains reportedly intact. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7, Galaxy Z Flip7, and Galaxy G Fold at Galaxy Unpacked,

4 July 2025

Innovation·Tech Trends·Technology News

AI in July 2025: Disruption, Opportunity, and Uncertainty Across the Globe / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:00 CET

Microsoft laid off about 4% of its workforce in July 2025, citing AI as a direct replacement for roles, notably in Xbox. More than 110 major European companies, including ASML, Airbus, Siemens, SAP, and Mistral AI, signed open letters urging a two-year delay to the EU AI Act due to its complexity and costs. Meta poached top AI researchers and is offering signing bonuses over $100 million and up to $300 million over four years to build its AI talent, with Ilya Sutskever now leading Safe Superintelligence after Daniel Gross joined Meta. Nvidia reached a $3.92 trillion market cap, becoming

4 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Technology

Space Science in July 2025: Breakthroughs, Setbacks, and the Expanding Frontier / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:00 CET

Astronomers confirmed 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) as the third confirmed interstellar object to visit our solar system, about 20 km wide, detected by NASA’s ATLAS survey, and it will pass inside Mars’ orbit in October 2025 at a minimum distance of 1.6 AU. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged exoplanet TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass world 34 light-years away, making it the lightest planet ever directly imaged and potentially habitable. MethaneSAT, an $88 million methane-emissions satellite backed by Jeff Bezos, Google, and the Environmental Defense Fund, launched in March 2024 and lost contact after just over a year, deemed unlikely

4 July 2025

Astronomy·Space·Space Exploration

Claude AI Revolution: An Up-to-Date 2025 Guide to Anthropic’s ChatGPT Rival

In May 2025, Anthropic released Claude 4 as Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, introducing a 200K+ token context window, code execution, and agentic tool use with a new Files API. Claude 2.1, released in November 2023, expanded the context to 200K tokens, cut hallucinations by about 2x, and added beta support for tool use such as API calls and web search. The Claude 3 family launched in March 2024 with Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, added multimodal support (text and images) and a tiered model lineup, with Claude 3 Opus maintaining 200K context and experiments hinting at up to

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Tech Trends

Google Gemini’s 2025 Takeover: How Google’s AI Powerhouse Stacks Up Against GPT-4, Claude & More

Gemini Ultra scored 90.0% on the MMLU academic exam and 59.4% on the MMMU multimodal benchmark, becoming the first AI to surpass human experts on MMLU and achieving top results on 30 of 32 benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is Google’s largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, with final testing including external red-teaming and a broader release planned for 2025. In late 2024 Bard switched to a fine-tuned Gemini Pro, dramatically improving Bard’s reasoning and planning abilities. The Pixel 8 Pro uses Gemini Nano on-device to power Recorder auto-summarization and Gboard smart replies, with Android 14 introducing AICore to

3 July 2025

AI·Comparison·Technology

Janitor AI: The Unfiltered Chatbot Revolution Hooking Millions (and Stirring Controversy)

Janitor AI was founded by Australian software developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023. In its first weeks, Janitor AI attracted over 1 million users within a week or two of launch. By September 2023, the platform had amassed around 3 million users, having hit the 1-million mark in 17 days. As of early 2024, more than 70% of its users were female, reflecting a romance/roleplay demographic skew. In July 2023, OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist and cut off Janitor AI’s access to the GPT API. After losing OpenAI access, Janitor AI rebuilt on-premise with hundreds of GPUs and launched

3 July 2025

AI·Social Media·Technology

Why Everyone’s Talking About Character.AI in 2025 – Major Updates, New CEO & Controversy

In June 2025 Karandeep Anand, formerly Meta VP, was named CEO of Character.AI, succeeding co-founder Noam Shazeer, and he pledged a 60-day plan to improve memory, filters, and creator features. In 2025 Character.AI launched Scenes, AvatarFX, Streams, and memory tools, with Chat Memories available in May 2025, AvatarFX live on web in June, and Streams rolling out in summer 2025. Google’s 2024 licensing deal valued at about $2.5–$3 billion gave Google a non-exclusive license to Character.AI’s LLM, bought out early investors in a reverse acquihire, and kept Character.AI independent. By early 2025 Character.AI had about 20 million MAU and over

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Tech News·Technology

Global AI Powerhouses Clash: China’s AI Revolution Challenges U.S. Tech Dominance

DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen now rival top U.S. models in capability, and DeepSeek costs about $0.55 per million tokens versus roughly $15 for OpenAI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 910 million downloads, while DeepSeek has about 125 million. HSBC and Standard Chartered began testing DeepSeek, Saudi Aramco deployed it in its main data center, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Google now offer DeepSeek on their cloud platforms. DeepSeek was trained on Nvidia H800 GPUs, which were not blocked by export bans, yet its performance matches models trained on newer hardware. Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen was open-sourced, spawning over 100,000 variant models,

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Innovation

3I/ATLAS: The Fastest Interstellar Comet Ever—Here’s What Scientists Are Saying

3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is the third identified interstellar object, discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile. It is on an extremely hyperbolic trajectory with a velocity of about 68 km/s and will reach perihelion on 29 October 2025 at 1.36 au, inside Mars’s orbit. It poses no threat to Earth. Early images show a faint coma and a short 3-arcsecond tail, confirming cometary activity. Detected at 4.5 au from the Sun months before perihelion, it offers an unprecedented window to study its composition, rotation, and size. The hyperbolic excess velocity v∞ is 57 km/s, making 3I/ATLAS

3 July 2025

Astronomy·Comets

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Devices, AI, Cloud, Gaming, and Space / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:01 CET

Oracle signs a $30 billion annual cloud deal to lease 4.5GW of computing power to OpenAI for the Stargate data center, aiming to double Oracle’s cloud sales by 2028. OpenAI’s Stargate expansion, in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank, will build massive AI infrastructure in Texas, reinforcing a sovereign AI push and multi-cloud strategies. Distributed cloud architectures are becoming the norm, spreading resources across on-premises, public cloud, and edge to improve latency and regulatory compliance while raising governance and security challenges. Fairphone 6 emphasizes repairability with a modular design and replaceable camera modules, priced at €599 at MediaMarkt and built around

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Cloud Computing·Gaming·Space·Tech News

The Global AI Surge: Disruption, Opportunity, and the New World Order / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

In 2025, Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba’s language models gained global traction, with DeepSeek reportedly priced at 1/17th the cost of leading US models and adopted by HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Saudi Aramco. US tech giants increased AI infrastructure spending in 2025, with Microsoft committing $80 billion and Meta $68 billion to data centers, chips, and cloud capacity. OpenAI agreed to lease 4.5 GW of data-center power from Oracle as part of the $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project. Ford CEO Jim Farley predicted that AI will literally replace half of all white-collar jobs in the US. A

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Technology

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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 07.02.2026

7 February 2026

LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: February 7, 2026, 12:00 AM ESTUpdated: February 7, 2026, 12:26 AM EST Dollar Dips as Stocks Rally and US Data Influences Fed Rate Expectations February 7, 2026, 12:18 AM EST. The **dollar index** fell 0.17%, pressured by a rebound in equity markets reducing demand for the safe-haven currency. Weaker-than-expected U.S. labor market data raised the odds of a Fed rate cut to 18% for March, though consumer sentiment improved to a six-month high, limiting losses. Hawkish comments from Atlanta Fed's Raphael Bostic emphasized maintaining restrictive monetary policy. The dollar faces medium-term weakness amid expectations for rate cuts

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026

Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026

Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026

Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.