AI News 8 August 2025 - 18 August 2025

AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia Near $4T, Tesla Scraps ‘Dojo’, Palantir Shines Amid Global AI Shake-Up

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

18 August 2025

AI Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bids & Backlash – Inside the Explosive 48 Hours of Aug 17–18, 2025

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

18 August 2025

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Hurricane Erin Intensifies as High-Tech Tools – from AI to Drones – Track Its Every Move

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,

15 August 2025

AI · Drones · Hurricanes · Technology · Weather

AI Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Self-Learning Breakthroughs & Legal Showdowns – Global AI Roundup (Aug 13–14, 2025)

Meta says its latest AI systems are beginning to improve themselves without human intervention, a step Mark Zuckerberg called toward artificial superintelligence, with a policy memo noting “glimpses” of self-improvement. Zhipu (Z AI) open-sourced GLM-4.5, a 355-billion-parameter model built on

14 August 2025

AI · Industry News · Innovation · Legal · Technology

Work Smarter, Not Longer: 12 Real AI Automations That Free Up Your Week

In 2023, a McKinsey study estimated that AI could automate up to 45% of repetitive tasks, potentially saving hours for workers. Salesforce data from late 2023 shows marketers using generative AI saved about 5 hours per week on content creation

14 August 2025

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Ultimate 2025 Showdown: iOS vs Android vs HarmonyOS — Which Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?

AI at Work: 12 Real Automations That Save 5–10 Hours a Week

AI-Powered Meeting Summaries & Action Items: Otter.ai, Zoom AI Companion, and Microsoft Teams Copilot transcribe meetings and generate summaries, with Microsoft data showing heavy users saving about 8 hours per month and typical users saving 3–5 hours per week. Automated

14 August 2025

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AI Stocks Frenzy: Soaring Earnings, Mega-Deals & Chip Shocks Drive Market (Aug 10–11, 2025)

SoundHound AI posted Q2 revenue of $42.7 million, up 217% year-over-year, about $10 million above expectations, and lifted full-year revenue guidance to $160–$178 million. Palantir Technologies reported Q2 revenue above $1 billion for the first time, with U.S. government sales

11 August 2025

AI · Chip Industry · Earnings · Investments · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:NVDA · NASDAQ:SOUN · NASDAQ:TSLA · NYSE:AI · NYSE:PLTR · Stock Market

AI’s Weekend Shockwave: GPT-5 Launch, Chip War Heats Up & ‘Deathbots’ Stir Debate (Aug 10–11, 2025)

OpenAI launched GPT-5, touted as a significant step toward artificial general intelligence and now accessible to free ChatGPT users with usage limits, while being integrated into Microsoft Copilot. OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b (117-billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (21B parameters),

11 August 2025

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From Revolutionary Beginnings to AI-Powered Future: The Epic Evolution of iOS 1–26 (2007–2025)

iPhone OS 1 launched June 29, 2007 on the original iPhone, introducing a capacitive multi‑touch UI but offering no native third‑party apps. iPhone OS 2 released July 11, 2008, introducing the App Store with 500 apps at launch and 10

11 August 2025

AI · Apple · iOS · Operating Systems · Tech Evolution

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

Battle of the AI Titans: GPT-5 vs Grok 4 vs Microsoft Copilot – Who Wins the Next-Gen AI Showdown?

GPT-5 launched in August 2025 with a 400,000-token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, test-time compute, and access for about 700 million ChatGPT users worldwide. GPT-5 comes in three tiers—GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano—sharing the 400K context and multimodal input

8 August 2025

AI · Comparisons · Future Trends · Reviews · Technology

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development.

8 August 2025

AI · Innovation · LLMs · Open Source · Technology

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025,

8 August 2025

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