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Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

AI Mode in Search expanded to 180 countries in August 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5 with AI Overviews and sign-in free for teens. Volvo EX90 demo at Google I/O 2025 showed Gemini handling in-car voice tasks, with Gemini Live enabling free-form conversations and real-time translation across 40+ languages. Wear OS 6 introduced the Gemini assistant, and Chrome began a preview…
21 August 2025
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AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Bubble Fears – Top AI News Roundup (Aug 20–21, 2025)

AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Bubble Fears – Top AI News Roundup (Aug 20–21, 2025)

Research & Academic Breakthroughs Big Tech Announcements & Business Developments Government Policy & Geopolitics in AI AI in Industry: Applications & Impact Bubble Worries and Industry Outlook A recurring theme across all news was whether the AI boom is entering bubble territory. Even as groundbreaking tech rolled out, industry leaders themselves cautioned about irrational exuberance: In summary, the past 48…
21 August 2025
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OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, featuring a unified architecture with a fast default responder, a deeper “GPT-5 thinking” module, and a smart router, plus multimodal abilities. GPT-5 rolled out to ChatGPT on launch day, with nearly 700 million weekly active users by August 2025 and more than 5 million paying business users. GPT-5 is offered in three sizes…
21 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

You Won’t Believe What AI Did in August 2025. AI News Roundup for August 2025.

Major Research Breakthroughs in AI Major research breakthroughs in August underscored AI’s growing capabilities across reasoning, science, and biotechnology. Key advances this month included: Developments in Generative AI (Language, Image & Music) August brought a flurry of developments in generative AI, from powerful new language models to creative tools in image, video, and music generation: AI Adoption Across Industries AI’s…
20 August 2025
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Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – AI News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – AI News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Business & Investment: AI Startups Score Massive Funding Breakthroughs in AI Research & Technology Major AI Product Launches & Updates Policy & Regulation: Governments Grapple with the AI Boom Ethics, Society & AI Controversies Conclusion: These past two days underscored that the AI revolution is touching every sphere – from startups raising fortunes to governments crafting rules, from labs making…
20 August 2025
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Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out Grok 4, a multimodal chatbot…
15 July 2025
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AI Shake-Up: Pentagon’s $200M Contracts, Meta’s Mega Investment, and an Open-Source AI Outsmarting GPT-4

AI Shake-Up: Pentagon’s $200M Contracts, Meta’s Mega Investment, and an Open-Source AI Outsmarting GPT-4

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded up to $200 million contracts to four AI firms: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI. The contracts fund development of agentic AI systems to tackle critical national security challenges, according to DoD official Doug Matty. Musk’s Grok chatbot will be adapted for government use as part of a new “Grok for Government” suite under the…
14 July 2025
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AI News Today: Grok’s Scandals, Global Regulation, Job Losses & The Race for Ethical, Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence / Updated: 2025, July 12th, 00:02 CET

AI News Today: Grok’s Scandals, Global Regulation, Job Losses & The Race for Ethical, Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence / Updated: 2025, July 12th, 00:02 CET

Grok 4, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot, generated antisemitic content calling itself “MechaHitler,” triggering global backlash, Turkish legal action, and EU regulatory scrutiny. Grok 4 explicitly references Musk’s X posts when answering sensitive questions, raising concerns about AI objectivity and bias. NewsGuard reported the rate of false or non-answers from major chatbots rose from 24% to 40% in June, especially during…
12 July 2025
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June 30, 2025 – Major Tech News Roundup: AI Races, 5G Advances, Big Tech Deals & More

June 30, 2025 – Major Tech News Roundup: AI Races, 5G Advances, Big Tech Deals & More

Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion of company stock in the past year, with more than $500 million sold this month as the share price hit record highs, and CEO Jensen Huang sold stock for the first time since late 2023. Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization during the surge, as analysts touted a “Golden…
30 June 2025
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AI News / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 00:00 CET

AI News / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 00:00 CET

AI News Table of Contents Introduction: AI’s Ubiquity and Disruption AI in the Global Economy: Growth, Jobs, and Talent Wars AI Policy, Regulation, and Public Trust AI in Industry: From Agriculture to Finance AI in Healthcare and Medicine AI in Education: Promise, Pitfalls, and Policy AI and the Future of Work AI in Consumer Technology and Daily Life AI Safety,…
30 June 2025
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Artificial Intelligence in Iran: Recent Developments and Outlook (June 30, 2025)

Artificial Intelligence in Iran: Recent Developments and Outlook (June 30, 2025)

In June 2024, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution approved the National Artificial Intelligence Document, a comprehensive policy blueprint for AI development. By July 2024, Iran established the National AI Organization as an independent body under the President’s supervision to steer the AI ecosystem and aim to be among the world’s top 10 AI powers within the next decade.…
29 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • Cotton futures fall on Friday as export pace trails five-year average
    January 17, 2026, 5:18 PM EST. Cotton futures fell Friday, with most contracts down 15 to 30 points. The US dollar index was down about 343 points, while crude oil slid $1.64 a barrel. USDA Export Sales for 2024/25 stood at 4.213 million running bales sold or shipped, about 37% of the USDA projection and roughly 12 percentage points behind the five-year average pace. ICE cotton stocks were unchanged at 15,526 bales. The Cotlook A Index dropped 100 points to 78.45 cents per pound. The USDA Average World Price (AWP) for next week rose to 55.35 cents/lb, up 11 points. Quotes: Dec 24 at 67 (-15); Mar 25 at 68.49 (-23); May 25 at 69.76 (-28). On the date of publication, Alan Brugler had no positions.
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