Mateusz Kaczmarek, Author at TechStock²

AI’s Explosive Weekend: GPT‑5 Debuts, Chip War Escalates, and ‘Deathbots’ Rise (Aug 9–10, 2025)

Research Breakthroughs & New AI Technologies Business & Industry Updates Policy, Regulation & Geopolitical Developments Ethical Debates & Public Response New Consumer & Enterprise AI Tools Sources: The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Associated Press apnews.com apnews.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; WashingtonExec washingtonexec.com washingtonexec.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; Axios axios.com axios.com; The Verge theverge.com theverge.com; MarketingProfs (AI Update) marketingprofs.com marketingprofs.com.

10 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Robotics·Semiconductors

Helsinki Drone Laws 2025: Ultimate Guide to Rules, Permits & No-Fly Zones

Finland adopted EU-wide EASA open category rules in 2021, applying them to Helsinki drone pilots. Recreational pilots must maintain visual line of sight (VLOS) at all times, with brief overflight of a person allowed only for sub-250g drones. The open category altitude limit is 120 meters above ground, with higher flights requiring Traficom permission. Drones over 25 kg are not allowed for leisure use. Drone operator registration with Traficom is mandatory if the drone weighs 250 g or more or has a camera, and one Operator ID covers all drones; registration typically costs about €30–€100 for 3–5 years. Minimum remote-pilot

10 August 2025

Drones

Guinea-Bissau’s Internet Revolution? Inside the 2025 Connectivity Boom and Bust

Internet use rose from 2.9% in 2012 to about 32% by January 2024, with 686,200 users then and an estimated 723,000 by January 2025. Guinea-Bissau connected to the ACE submarine cable in November 2022 and established its first Internet Exchange Point in Bissau. 4G coverage reached about 68% of the population in 2023. There was no 5G in Guinea-Bissau as of 2025, with no licenses or pilots announced. Mobile subscriptions totaled 2.25 million in early 2024, rising to 2.62 million in 2025 (roughly 120% of the population). By 2025, over 1,000 villages that previously had no signal now have at

9 August 2025

Internet

Israel’s Drone Laws in 2025 – Ultimate Guide to Regulations, Permits & No-Fly Zones

Recreational Drone Operator License is required for hobbyists in Israel, often called a “matayesen” or UAS operator certificate, with applicants as young as 12 and an online theory exam, and minors under 16 must fly under adult supervision. Drones over 250 grams must be registered with the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (CAAI) in the online registry, carry an owner ID label, and pass a written knowledge test, with a registration fee around ₪30. Drones under 250 grams may be exempt from formal registration under upcoming rules, but any drone with a camera remains subject to Israel’s drone laws. The

9 August 2025

Drones

Biotech & Health Bombshells: FDA Greenlights, Clinical Breakthroughs & Global Health Milestones (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Drug Approvals & Regulatory Developments (In Europe, regulators also made news: the EMA’s committee recommended approving darolutamide (Bayer’s Nubeqa) with hormone therapy for metastatic prostate cancer based on positive Phase 3 data onclive.com.) Clinical Trials & Research Breakthroughs Public Health & Policy Industry & Business Updates Sources: Key information and quotes in this report were drawn from Reuters news wires reuters.com reuters.com, official WHO releases who.int pharmabiz.com, and industry trade outlets including Fierce Biotech/Pharma fiercepharma.com fiercepharma.com and company statements. Each development is linked to its original source for further reading.

9 August 2025

Biotechnology·Healthcare News

Markets Surge as Tech Soars, Gold Shines & Tariffs Shake Global Business (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Nasdaq Composite reached a record high for the second consecutive day on Friday, August 8, 2025, led by Apple and other tech shares. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% and the Dow Jones rose 0.5% on Friday, August 8, 2025, with Nasdaq up 3.9% for the week. The pan-European STOXX 600 climbed 0.2% on Friday and was up 2% for the week, with banking stocks leading the advance. <liZurich’s SMI index rose as U.S. tariffs on Swiss goods took effect at 15%. Japan’s Nikkei index jumped 1.85% on Friday, while broad Asia-Pacific shares ex-Japan fell about 0.6%. Gold futures surged to

9 August 2025

Gold·Technology

AI Stocks Frenzy: GPT-5 Hype, Record Highs & Billion-Dollar Bets Fuel Aug 8–9 Market Surge

OpenAI launched GPT-5 on Aug. 7, 2025, touting expert-level capabilities and 700 million ChatGPT users. On Aug. 7, 2025, the U.S. Commerce Department began licensing Nvidia to export its H20 AI chips to China, reversing a ban and potentially restoring access to a huge market. AMD shares fell 5.1% and SMCI dropped 18.2% after Q2 data-center results disappointed, with AMD data-center revenue rising 14% to $3.2 billion but under forecasts. Nvidia and Broadcom hit all-time highs and notched record closes as the AI chip rally regained momentum. Meta Platforms raised $29 billion for AI data centers, with about $26 billion

9 August 2025

Stock Market

From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)

In preclinical tests on diabetic mice, a single application of a hydrogel-based “smart” wound dressing achieved 90% wound closure in 12 days by silencing thrombospondin-1 with microRNA-loaded extracellular vesicles. The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI directly imaged a gas-giant planet roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 2 AU, about 4 light-years from Earth. If confirmed, this would be the closest exoplanet ever directly imaged to Earth. As of August 7, 2025, NOAA forecast a 50% above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season with 13–18 named storms and 5–9 hurricanes by November. France’s southern wildfires became the largest

9 August 2025

Space Exploration·Technology

Skywatch Alert: Perseid Meteors, Sturgeon Moon & Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Dazzle Aug 9–10, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower is active August 9–10, 2025, with peak activity expected August 12–13 and up to 100 meteors per hour at peak under ideal dark skies. The full Moon, known as the Sturgeon Moon, reaches full on August 9, 2025 at 3:55 a.m. EDT (07:55 GMT) and will dominate the sky that night. The Perseids radiate from the constellation Perseus, which rises in the northeast after midnight, making the late-night to pre-dawn hours the best viewing time. Under the near-full Moon, bright Perseids can still streak across the sky, especially in the pre-dawn hours. Venus (-4 magnitude) and

9 August 2025

Meteor Showers

Historic Splashdowns, Lunar Leaps & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 8–9, 2025)

NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov completed a 146-day mission with a splashdown off the California coast at 11:33 a.m. ET on Aug. 9, 2025, the first crewed West Coast splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. China completed the first full-scale test of the Lanyue (“Embrace the Moon”) crewed lunar lander in Hebei on Aug. 6, 2025, validating its ascent and descent engines ahead of a 2030 lunar mission. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated for its first national-security launch with mission USSF-106 as early as Aug. 12, 2025, marking Vulcan’s inaugural national-security and Post-Certification

9 August 2025

Space·Space Exploration

Space IPOs, Mega-Hacks, and Tariff Twists: Non‑AI Tech News Roundup (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Sony raised its annual profit forecast 4% to ¥1.33 trillion ($9 billion) on tariff relief and strong PlayStation demand, with tariff impact now expected at ¥70 billion, down from ¥100 billion. Sony’s PlayStation division sold 2.5 million PS5 consoles in Q1, up 4%, helping gaming profits double on software and network services. SMIC reported Q2 revenue of $2.2 billion, up 16% year over year, with net profit down 19.5% as factories ran at 92.5% utilization. President Trump demanded Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over China ties, sending Intel stock down about 3% as the company secured $8 billion in federal

9 August 2025

Cybersecurity·Space·Space Industry·Technology

AI Revolution: GPT-5 Launches, Billion-Dollar Startups, and Global AI Showdowns (Aug 8–9, 2025)

OpenAI released GPT-5 on Aug 8, 2025, the first major upgrade to ChatGPT in over two years, with 700 million weekly users and reinforced safety guardrails. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 on Aug 5, 2025, improving software engineering accuracy to 74.5% on its coding benchmark (from 72.5%) and making the model available via API, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Bedrock. Google unveiled MLE-STAR, a machine-learning engineering agent that uses web search and targeted code refinement to autonomously build ML models and has won medals in 63% of evaluated Kaggle competitions. MIT and Duke University announced a polymer-design breakthrough on Aug 5,

9 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends

Complete Guide to Internet Access in Sri Lanka: Fiber, 4G, and Satellite Expansion

As of early 2025, Sri Lanka has 29.3 million mobile subscriptions, exceeding its population. SLT’s national fiber backbone spans about 45,000 km. By mid-2022, SLT had infrastructure for 1 million fiber connections, with about 500,000 households connected, and aimed to reach 2 million by end-2023. 4G LTE coverage is essentially 100% of the population as of 2024, with 2G nearly 100%. Dialog Axiata and Mobitel have begun pre-commercial 5G trials, with live test zones in Colombo delivering speeds over 500 Mbps. TRCSL licensed SpaceX Starlink Lanka in August 2024 to provide nationwide satellite broadband under a five-year license. In March

8 August 2025

CSE:DIAL·CSE:SLT·Internet·Technology

Breakthrough Cures, Big Pharma Shake-Ups & Health Policy Bombshells – Biotech/Health News (Aug 7–8, 2025)

Scientific Breakthroughs & Discoveries (Aug 7–8, 2025) Regulatory Updates (FDA and Other Agencies) Mergers, Acquisitions & Financial News Public Health & Policy Updates Sources: The information above is sourced from recent press releases, regulatory announcements, and news reports between Aug 7–8, 2025, including Scripps Research eurekalert.org eurekalert.org, EurekAlert! eurekalert.org, Boston Globe kffhealthnews.org bostonglobe.com, UC Davis Health News health.ucdavis.edu health.ucdavis.edu, U.S. FDA releases fda.gov fda.gov fda.gov fda.gov, BioSpace and Reuters coverage of industry developments biospace.com reuters.com biospace.com biospace.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com, and health policy analyses from KFF Health News reuters.com reuters.com kffhealthnews.org. Each cited item is linked to its original

8 August 2025

Global Business Pulse: Markets Juggle Tariffs, Rate Cuts & Mega-Deals (Aug 7–8, 2025)

On Aug 7, 2025, Dow Jones fell 0.5%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Nasdaq rose 0.3% to a record high, as Eli Lilly dropped 14% on weak weight-loss drug data. On Aug 7, 2025, the United States imposed about 100% tariffs on imported chips and electronics, with carve-outs for companies that manufacture in the U.S., and Apple jumped about 3% as a result. Brent crude fell below $66 and WTI traded near $63 on Aug 7–8 as tariff fears weighed demand and OPEC+ moved to unwind its output cuts by September. The Bank of England cut interest rates by

8 August 2025

AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

By Aug. 7, 2025, the Nasdaq Composite reached a record peak driven by chipmakers and AI stocks. OpenAI launched GPT-5 in August 2025 amid a push for ROI in AI. AMD fell about 5% and SMCI dropped over 18% on Aug. 6–7 after data-center results disappointed, while AMD’s Q2 data-center revenue rose 14% to $3.2 billion, lagging Nvidia’s 73% surge in the same segment. Palantir (PLTR) surged nearly 9% in a day after Aug. 5, as it raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second time in 2025, with Q2 revenue of $1 billion and government sales up 53%. Meta

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Stock Market·Technology

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Technology

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Sky Spectacle (Aug 8–9, 2025): Meteor Showers, a Full Moon, Planetary Dance & Aurora Alerts

The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13, 2025, delivering 60–90 meteors per hour under dark skies, though a bright 84% full Moon may limit visibility to about 15 meteors per hour. The Eta Eridanid meteor shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours of August 8, 2025, at about 3 meteors per hour and appears to emanate from the Eridanus constellation. The Southern Delta Aquariids remain active through late July into August, producing only a few meteors per hour. The Full Sturgeon Moon reaches peak illumination on August 9, 2025, turning full at 3:55 a.m. EDT and rising in the southeast around

8 August 2025

Space

Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test of its crewed lunar lander ‘Lanyue’ at a Hebei facility, validating its ascent and descent engines for a 2030 crewed lunar mission and bolstering plans for a joint International Lunar Research Station with Russia by 2035. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated to perform its first

8 August 2025

Space·Space Exploration·Technology

Tech Turmoil: Courts Hacked, Space IPO Soars & Tech Titans Tussle – Global Roundup (Aug 7–8, 2025)

Sony raised its full-year profit forecast to ¥1.33 trillion (~$9 billion) and cut tariff impact to ¥70 billion from ¥100 billion. Sony’s PlayStation division first-quarter PS5 sales rose to 2.5 million units, up 4%. SMIC’s Q2 revenue rose 16% to $2.2 billion, with net profit down 19% to $132.5 million, as contingency plans and strong domestic demand kept capacity near full through October. Trump demanded Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over alleged ties to Chinese firms, sending Intel shares down about 3%; Intel is backed by roughly $8 billion in CHIPS Act subsidies. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

8 August 2025

Cybersecurity·Space

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Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

7 February 2026

Novo Nordisk Class B shares closed up 5.3% at 295.50 Danish crowns in Copenhagen after Hims & Hers said it would stop offering a compounded pill version of Wegovy following U.S. regulatory warnings. The move came after Novo called the Hims product “illegal mass compounding” and threatened legal action. Shares had fallen nearly 8% Thursday after Hims launched the pill. Trading resumes Monday.

Amgen stock price hits 52-week high after Friday rally — what to watch into Monday

7 February 2026

Amgen shares rose 4.5% to close at $384.32 Friday, hitting a 52-week high. CVS Caremark will drop Amgen’s osteoporosis drug Prolia from some preferred lists starting April 1, replacing it with biosimilars. Investors are watching for further drug-pricing moves and key U.S. inflation data next week.

Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

7 February 2026

Linde plc shares fell 2.5% to $448.24 Friday after reporting Q4 sales up 6% to $8.76 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.20. The company guided 2026 adjusted EPS to $17.40–$17.90, below analyst consensus. JPMorgan downgraded the stock, while Morgan Stanley and UBS raised price targets. Linde repurchased $1.4 billion in shares in Q4 and returned $7.4 billion to shareholders in 2025.

Inditex share price ends week near €58 high as buyback kicks off — what to watch next

7 February 2026

Inditex shares closed up 0.78% at 57.14 euros on Friday after a volatile week. A CNMV filing showed the company will buy back up to 3 million shares for 180 million euros, with purchases starting February 5. The next major event is Inditex’s full-year results on March 11. The IBEX 35 index rose 1.11% into the weekend.

Mateusz Kaczmarek

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