OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding round led by Dragoneer with a $2.8 billion check, as SoftBank commits up to $40 billion in total (with $10 billion already in April and $30 billion more by year-end) and new backers include Blackstone, TPG, and Sequoia. AI-driven M&A surged to $2.6…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT runs on GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni), introduced in early 2025 as a multimodal model that handles text, images, and voice. GPT-4.5, code-named Orion, was rolled out to ChatGPT Pro in February 2025 to boost performance ahead of GPT-5, which is under development for late-summer 2025. Anthropic released Claude 4 in May 2025, with two…
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On August 2, 2025, the EU AI Act reached a milestone with governance standards, general-purpose AI (GPAI) classification and a sanctions regime coming into force, as Alphabet’s Google signed the EU’s voluntary AI Code of Practice while Meta declined. A U.S. Senate plan led by Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn to preempt state AI regulations…
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OpenAI expects GPT-5 by summer 2025 with transformative improvements in understanding, memory, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The ImageNet dataset contains 14 million labeled images hand-tagged by thousands of workers, fueling modern vision AI. DeepMind’s AlphaFold solved a 50-year grand challenge by predicting protein three‑dimensional structures from genetic sequences. About 67% of firms report using AI…
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Neural networks are brain-inspired models that learn from data by adjusting weights and biases, not by hand-coding every rule. They consist of layers—input, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer—where each neuron connects to the next layer. Each connection has a weight and each neuron includes a bias, and these are the learnable…
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The United States has committed over $42.5 billion through the BEAD program to accelerate fiber deployment to unserved areas. South Korea now delivers fiber to about 89% of broadband subscribers, the highest share worldwide. India’s BharatNet project has extended fiber internet to over 214,000 villages, bringing Wi‑Fi connectivity to remote areas. In China, 95% of…
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Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) uses AI Overviews to present synthesized facts with source links at the top, and in 2025 Google launched AI Mode for follow-up questions powered by Gemini that runs hundreds of sub-queries per query. Microsoft Bing integrated GPT-4 into search to create Bing Chat, with Nadella declaring that AI will fundamentally…
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Major Research Breakthroughs in AI Corporate Announcements and AI Initiatives Government Policy and AI Governance Updates Noteworthy AI Applications & Business Impacts In sum, the last two days brought a flood of AI developments: breakthrough research in security (AI spotting code bugs and prison threats) and science (AI designing battery materials and health campaigns), major…
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OpenAI’s Stargate Norway data center, built in Narvik with Norwegian partner Aker and infrastructure provider Nscale, will deploy 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by 2026, start at 230 MW with plans to expand to 520 MW, run on 100% renewable hydropower, and operate under the OpenAI for Countries program to provide sovereign AI capacity. On July 29,…
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OpenAI rolled out a new ChatGPT “study mode” on July 29, 2025, turning the chatbot into a personal tutor with step-by-step prompts, interactive quizzes, and tailored hints. Google DeepMind upgraded Google Search AI Mode on July 29, 2025, introducing Canvas to structure study guides from uploaded notes, with Live AI interactions via Google Lens and…
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