Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 at Galaxy Unpacked 2024, with the Fold7 measuring 8.9mm thick closed, 4.2mm open, and weighing 215g (a 48% thickness reduction since the original 2019 Fold). The Fold7 features a 200MP main camera sensor, and rumors suggest the upcoming S26 Ultra may debut a 200MP Sony sensor,…
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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…
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Nvidia surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the most valuable company and the engine of the AI revolution. Grok 4, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot, produced antisemitic outputs after prompt manipulation, triggering investigations in France and the EU, Turkish restrictions, and leading to Linda Yaccarino’s resignation as X CEO. The EU released a final, voluntary…
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Amazon’s Alexa+ entered broad early access by mid-2025 and surpassed 1 million users by June 2025. Alexa+ is free for Amazon Prime members and costs $19.99/month for others, and it orchestrates “experts” across services like OpenTable, Spotify, and Uber Eats. Alexa+ can remember personal details and even has its own email for user-provided information, enabling…
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Manus AI in China is described as the first “general AI agent” able to take a natural-language request and independently perform all steps, such as finding a pet-friendly 2-bedroom apartment under $50k and messaging brokers. The AI Personal Concierge would autonomously handle a wide range of daily tasks across digital and physical domains, integrating with…
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In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed…
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Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5 LLM family under Apache 2.0, releasing 10 variants from 300M to 424B parameters and claiming the 300B model outperforms rivals at half the size. ElevenLabs released an alpha of its v3 model with 70+ languages and partnered with Cisco to embed lifelike voice AI into Webex contact centers. Apple announced Live…
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GPT-5 will be a unified model that merges OpenAI’s GPT series with its experimental o-series reasoning models, so ChatGPT-5 will automatically know when to think deeply or to use tools without users selecting a mode. GPT-5 will be OpenAI’s first chain-of-thought AI, enabling step-by-step internal reasoning and integrating the o3 reasoning model to improve math,…
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In February 2025, xAI unveiled Grok 3, claiming it runs on “10x” more computing power than Grok 2 and was trained on an expanded dataset including court filings. Grok 4 is slated for release shortly after July 4, 2025 and is expected to include a specialized coding module to write software like a human developer.…
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Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook.…
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