OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, with a 256,000-token context window and added GPT-5-mini and GPT-5-nano variants. OpenAI published open-weight models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B under the Apache 2.0 license on August 5, 2025, to run and fine-tune locally and counter China’s open-source progress. Anthropic expanded its Claude model to a 1,000,000-token context…
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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:…
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SoftBank announced a $2 billion equity investment in Intel at $23 per share for a stake just under 2%. Intel’s stock rose about 7% on the news, seen as a morale lifeline for its turnaround. Nvidia’s shares fell 3.5% on Tuesday, the biggest one-day drop in four months, ahead of its Aug. 27 quarterly results.…
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Nvidia is developing a China-only AI chip named B30A, based on the Blackwell architecture, designed to outpace the current H20 while complying with U.S. export controls. The B30A will be a single-die design and is expected to deliver roughly half the raw computing power of Nvidia’s dual-die B300 accelerator. The B30A will include high-bandwidth memory…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told tech reporters in San Francisco that the AI industry is in a frenzy and warned of a bubble. OpenAI’s private funding rounds have pushed its valuation to around $300 billion or more, with talk of a potential secondary sale at about $500 billion. Mira Murati’s new AI venture reportedly raised…
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Pixel 10 Pro ships with Android 16 at launch and Google guarantees 7 years of OS updates, security patches, and feature drops. Pixel 10 Pro preserves the Pixel camera bar design, is slightly thicker than the Pixel 9 Pro, and moves the SIM tray to the top-left edge (with some regions moving to eSIM only).…
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Arm Holdings hired Amazon AI chip engineer Rami Sinno to lead its plan to design in-house AI chips and chiplets. SoftBank took a $2 billion stake in Intel and also backed a $30 billion OpenAI investment, plus funded the Stargate AI data center project in Ohio with Foxconn. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go in India at…
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Nvidia reached a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the first public company to do so, with its shares closing above the milestone in early July. Nvidia remains near record highs as AI demand powers its chips, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 posted fresh record closes in mid‑August driven by AI mega‑caps. AMD’s data-center chip…
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OpenAI released GPT-5 during Aug 17–18, 2025 rollout, billed as a major upgrade with strong coding, math, and science capabilities, while Sam Altman acknowledged it still lacks self-learning. In China, Pan Jianwei’s team used AI to position over 2,000 neutral-atom qubits in 3D in 1/60,000 of a second, a 10× larger array than prior work,…
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Erin formed in the Atlantic in mid-August 2025 and is the first hurricane of the season. As of August 15, 2025, Erin is a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds near 75 mph and a central pressure around 993 mb, located hundreds of miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and moving west-northwest at about…
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