AI News 11 August 2025 - 20 August 2025

August 2025 Tech News Roundup: GPT-5 Rocks AI, Pixel 10 Debuts, SpaceX Sets Launch Record & More

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

20 August 2025

AI · Innovation · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:NVDA · NYSE:ORCL · NYSE:WMT · Smartphones · Space · Tech News

NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Nvidia’s New China-Only AI Superchip Outguns H20 Amid U.S.-China Tech Showdown

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

19 August 2025

AI · China Tech · Hardware · NASDAQ:NVDA · NVIDIA · US-China Relations

GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

Sam Altman’s AI Bubble Warning: Is the Tech Frenzy Nearing a Dangerous Peak?

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

19 August 2025

AI · Industry Analysis · NASDAQ:NVDA · Opinion · Tech Trends · Warnings

Markets Shaken, AI Valuations Soar, Oil Slumps: What You Missed in Business This Weekend

In a massive secondary sale, OpenAI may offload about $6 billion of stock to SoftBank and Thrive Capital, valuing the company at about $500 billion, with roughly 700 million weekly ChatGPT users and a $12 billion revenue run-rate in the

18 August 2025

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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 · NVIDIA · Stock Market · Stocks · Tech Industry · Tesla

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

AI · Automation · Efficiency · NASDAQ:JBLU · NYSE:CRM · NYSE:HUBS · NYSE:UL · Productivity · Work-Life Balance

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

AI · Automation · NASDAQ:HUBS · NASDAQ:MSFT · NASDAQ:ZM · NYSE:DAL · NYSE:PATH · NYSE:ZEN · Productivity · Time Management · Work Hacks

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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