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Artificial Intelligence News 31 August 2025 - 10 September 2025

Game-Changing AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Surprises & Global AI Showdowns (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Game-Changing AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Surprises & Global AI Showdowns (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Breakthrough: AI Finds Consciousness in ‘Unresponsive’ Patients One of the week’s most striking research breakthroughs came from Stony Brook University, where scientists unveiled an AI system called SeeMe that can detect “covert consciousness” in patients with acute brain injuries news.stonybrook.edu. In a study of 37 coma patients, SeeMe’s computer vision algorithms analyzed subtle, involuntary facial muscle movements in response to verbal commands (like “open your eyes”), movements so slight they’re invisible to the naked eye news.stonybrook.edu. Remarkably, the tool identified signs of awareness 4–8 days earlier than standard bedside neurological exams news.stonybrook.edu news.stonybrook.edu. Lead researcher Dr. Sima Mofakham explained the
10 September 2025
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iOS 26 Unleashed: Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ Redesign and Next‑Level AI – An In-Depth Review

iOS 26 Unleashed: Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ Redesign and Next‑Level AI – An In-Depth Review

Key Facts New Design Changes: Enter the ‘Liquid Glass’ UI Apple has radically reimagined the iPhone interface in iOS 26 with a design language dubbed Liquid Glass. This new UI theme, inspired partly by the transparent layers of visionOS (from Apple’s Vision Pro headset), makes the entire system feel like frosted glass panels layered over your content. Translucent elements are now everywhere – from the lock screen clock to Safari’s toolbars – creating a sense of depth and light that “behaves like glass in the real world,” as Apple describes. Using real-time rendering, UI components dynamically respond to motion and
10 September 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: $17 Billion Deals, Surging Shares, and Shock Announcements in 48 Hours (Sept 8–9, 2025)

AI Stocks Frenzy: $17 Billion Deals, Surging Shares, and Shock Announcements in 48 Hours (Sept 8–9, 2025)

Key Facts In-Depth Report Massive Deals and Surging AI Stocks The week kicked off with a blockbuster deal underscoring the insatiable appetite for AI computing power. Nebius Group, an Amsterdam-based cloud provider born from Russia’s Yandex, announced it will provide Microsoft with dedicated GPU infrastructure in a 5-year deal worth $17.4 billion (potentially expanding to $19.4 B) reuters.com reuters.com. The contract – one of the largest AI cloud tie-ups to date – sent Nebius’s U.S.-listed shares rocketing nearly 47% in post-market trading reuters.com. Microsoft will get access to massive compute capacity from Nebius’s new data center in New Jersey to fuel services
9 September 2025
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Zombie Star, Planet Birth & AI Breakthroughs: Science News Roundup (Sep 8–9, 2025)

Zombie Star, Planet Birth & AI Breakthroughs: Science News Roundup (Sep 8–9, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Planet Birth Caught in the Act: For the first time, astronomers have directly spotted a young planet forming inside the gap of a ringed disk around a sun-like star sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. The newborn exoplanet, named WISPIT 2b, was detected using an advanced adaptive optics system on the Magellan Telescope. It appears as a bright dot of H-alpha emission within a cleared gap of dust and gas sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com – exactly where a “protoplanet” has long been predicted to carve out a gap. “Dozens of theory papers have been written about these disk gaps being caused by
9 September 2025
AI Chaos or Revolution? Here’s What You Missed in the Last 48 Hours

AI Chaos or Revolution? Here’s What You Missed in the Last 48 Hours

Key Facts Big Tech & Product Announcements Google’s Search Gets an AI Upgrade: Google turned its famous homepage Doodle into an AI-powered learning portal this week. For three days, Google’s Doodles highlighted commonly searched school topics – quadratic equations, photosynthesis, and DNA – and clicking on each launched the new “AI Mode” in Google Search blog.google. AI Mode is billed as Google’s most powerful search experience: users can ask follow-up questions about the Doodle topics (or anything else) and get in-depth explanations, complete with suggested links to dig deeper blog.google. Essentially, Google is weaving an educational chatbot into its search
9 September 2025
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AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Summary Authors vs. AI: $1.5 Billion Settlement and New Copyright Battles Content creators scored a major victory against AI firms.Anthropic – maker of the Claude chatbot – agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who alleged the startup illegally downloaded millions of pirated books to train its AI bloomberg.com. The unprecedented deal (about $3,000 per book for ~500,000 titles) is being called the largest-ever copyright recovery in the AI field axios.com ts2.tech. Under the agreement, Anthropic will delete all illicit book data taken from shadow libraries and pay authors for past use axios.com. “This settlement
7 September 2025
AI Invades the Ivory Tower: Universities Race to Ride the Artificial Intelligence Wave

AI Invades the Ivory Tower: Universities Race to Ride the Artificial Intelligence Wave

Summary of Key Facts: The Rise of AI Degrees – From Tech Hubs to Liberal Arts Colleges Not long ago, “artificial intelligence” in college was confined to niche computer science electives or research labs. Today, it’s going mainstream in higher education. Universities are rapidly rolling out AI majors, minors, and certificates to meet student demand and workforce needs. Carnegie Mellon University made headlines in 2018 as the first to offer a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence skywork.ai. Since then, dozens of universities have followed suit with new programs blending computer science, data science, and machine learning. MIT launched a cross-disciplinary major in
6 September 2025
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AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Generative AI Breakthroughs and New Tools OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch took center stage, arriving as the company’s first major model upgrade since GPT-4. Announced in August and now rolling out broadly, GPT-5 is described as OpenAI’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” openai.com. It integrates a novel “thinking” mode that allows longer reasoning when needed, giving expert-level responses in coding, math, writing, vision and more openai.com. The model is unified (one system handling both quick replies and deeper reasoning) and significantly improves factual accuracy, coding abilities and reduced hallucinations. GPT-5 is available to all ChatGPT users (with premium tiers getting extended
5 September 2025
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Interstellar Surprises, Ancient Fossils, and AI Breakthroughs – Top Science News (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Interstellar Surprises, Ancient Fossils, and AI Breakthroughs – Top Science News (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Space & Astronomy JWST Discovers Candidate “Pristine” Galaxy: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers reported finding a distant galaxy almost entirely devoid of heavy elements, dubbed AMORE6 scitechdaily.com. If confirmed, this would mark the first-ever observation of a Population III galaxy – a primordial system of stars formed just ~900 million years after the Big Bang, containing only hydrogen and helium scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com. “The existence of galaxies with no elements such as Oxygen… is a key prediction of the cosmological model,” the research team noted, yet until now no zero-metallicity galaxy had been identified scitechdaily.com. JWST saw that AMORE6
4 September 2025
AI Race Heats Up: Musk’s Showdown, $183B Startup & New Global AI Rules – Top Stories (Sept 3–4, 2025)

AI Race Heats Up: Musk’s Showdown, $183B Startup & New Global AI Rules – Top Stories (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Microsoft Launches In-House AI Models, Signaling Independence Microsoft announced it has built two powerful homegrown AI foundation models after years of relying on OpenAI. The company introduced MAI-Voice-1, a lightning-fast speech generator, and MAI-1-preview, a text model for its Copilot assistant semafor.com semafor.com. Mustafa Suleyman, now CEO of the Microsoft AI division, said this marks a strategic shift: “We have to be able to have the in-house expertise to create the strongest models in the world” semafor.com. The move pits Microsoft directly against OpenAI – its close partner turned rival – in the race for cutting-edge AI models semafor.com semafor.com.
4 September 2025
AI Layoff Wave of 2025: Salesforce’s 4,000-Job Cut Is Just the Beginning

AI Layoff Wave of 2025: Salesforce’s 4,000-Job Cut Is Just the Beginning

AI Replacing Workers in Tech: Salesforce Leads the Trend Tech companies have been on the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence – and now they’re seeing the workforce shake-ups that come with it. Salesforce made headlines this year when Marc Benioff confirmed the CRM giant cut about 4,000 customer support jobs after rolling out new AI-powered support bots foxbusiness.com foxbusiness.com. These “AI agents” can handle routine customer queries, generate content, and even manage websites automatically latimes.com. The efficiency gains were striking enough that Salesforce stopped backfilling many support roles. “With our AI agent platform, the number of support cases declined and
3 September 2025
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AI Revolution Roundup: GPT-5, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Big Tech Showdowns – Top Stories (Sept 2–3, 2025)

AI Revolution Roundup: GPT-5, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Big Tech Showdowns – Top Stories (Sept 2–3, 2025)

Consumer AI: New Tools for Translation and Shopping Both Google and Amazon introduced significant AI-powered features for everyday users. Google Translate added major upgrades that blur the line between translator and language teacher. Users can now carry on a conversation with someone in another language, and the app will automatically translate both sides in real-time with spoken audio and on-screen text ts2.tech. Google also unveiled an AI-driven practice mode that acts as a personal tutor – generating interactive listening and speaking exercises tailored to the user’s skill level, directly challenging Duolingo’s AI language lessons ts2.tech ts2.tech. These beta features launched
3 September 2025
AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

AI Stock Whiplash: Alibaba’s $50 Billion Surge, Nvidia’s Reality Check & More (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

Key Facts AI Mega-Caps: Hype vs. Reality in Late-August Markets The final days of August saw a tug-of-war between AI-fueled optimism and growing caution among the market’s most valuable tech companies. Nowhere was this more evident than with Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom. The GPU giant reported another quarter of blowout earnings, far exceeding analyst expectations. Demand for its AI chips (like the coveted H100) has been so overwhelming that CEO Jensen Huang likened the current AI build-out to “a new industrial revolution” with customers “buying everything [we have] – the buzz is: everything sold out” reuters.com
1 September 2025
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AI’s Weekend Whirlwind: Global Crackdowns, Tech Giants’ Bold Moves & Market Shocks

AI’s Weekend Whirlwind: Global Crackdowns, Tech Giants’ Bold Moves & Market Shocks

Global Policy & Regulation: AI Under the Microscope China Enforces Sweeping AI Content Labels On September 1, China’s ambitious new “Regulations on the Identification of AI-Generated Content” came into force, marking one of the world’s strictest regimes for AI media. The rules require every AI-generated piece of content to be clearly flagged as such – from a simple label on text (“AI-generated”) to visible watermarks on images and videos and even audio disclaimers (“generated by AI”) in synthetic voice clips aibase.com. Regulators hope these labels will combat a surge in deepfakes and misinformation that has left users “increasingly finding it
1 September 2025
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The Great AI Job Takeover: How Robots and Algorithms Are Replacing Workers Worldwide

The Great AI Job Takeover: How Robots and Algorithms Are Replacing Workers Worldwide

Introduction: A New Wave of Automation Artificial intelligence has kicked off a revolution in workplaces around the world. Recent advances – especially in generative AI like large language models and image generators – enable machines to perform tasks once thought to be uniquely human. From drafting reports to driving vehicles, AI systems are now capable of cognitive and creative work, not just rote factory tasks. This is driving a new wave of automation that is transforming jobs across all sectors, white-collar and blue-collar alike. The impact is already being felt. Layoff statistics and hiring trends suggest AI is beginning to displace workers in significant numbers. In
31 August 2025
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Google Smart Home Ecosystem 2025: New AI Upgrades, Nest Devices and Everything You Need to Know

Google Smart Home Ecosystem 2025: New AI Upgrades, Nest Devices and Everything You Need to Know

Google Nest Hardware: Speakers, Displays, Cameras and More Google’s smart home lineup (branded Google Nest) spans smart speakers, smart displays, security cameras, video doorbells, thermostats, sensors, and networking gear. Below we break down each category, highlighting the latest hardware, standout features, specs, and how they compare across generations. Smart Speakers: Nest Mini & Nest Audio (and Upcoming AI Speaker) Google currently sells two main smart speakers: the Nest Mini (2nd Gen) and the Nest Audio. The Nest Mini is a compact, puck-shaped speaker (successor to the original Google Home Mini) that launched in late 2019 for about $49 routenote.com. It
31 August 2025
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AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists by 2025 – Here’s Why It Didn’t

AI Was Supposed to Replace Radiologists by 2025 – Here’s Why It Didn’t

Key Facts From Hype to Reality: AI’s Role in Radiology Today Not long ago, headlines confidently predicted that artificial intelligence would overtake radiologists by the 2020s. In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton famously suggested we should “stop training radiologists” because deep learning would outperform them within five years newrepublic.com newrepublic.com. Similar forecasts in top journals and tech forums envisioned algorithms reading X-rays and scans with super-human accuracy, putting radiologists out of work. Radiology trainees grew anxious, even choosing other specialties, fearing a career that might not exist newrepublic.com newrepublic.com. Fast-forward to 2025, and that prophecy clearly did not come true. “Eight years
31 August 2025
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AI vs. IT Pros: Why the Robots Haven’t Taken Over Tech Jobs (Yet)

AI vs. IT Pros: Why the Robots Haven’t Taken Over Tech Jobs (Yet)

Key Facts and Findings AI’s Growing Role in IT: Hype vs. Reality For years we’ve heard bold predictions that artificial intelligence would soon replace swaths of IT specialists – from software developers to system admins. The hype surged with each AI breakthrough, but the reality in 2025 is that human IT professionals are still very much in demand. AI has certainly changed how these experts work, automating countless routine tasks and accelerating workflows. Tools like code generators, intelligent monitoring systems, and chatbots are now commonplace in IT departments. In fact, most organizations are eagerly adopting such tools; recent surveys show that
31 August 2025
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Popcorn-Serving Robots, Brain Chips & Billions in AI: Inside Elon Musk’s July 2025 Robotics Revolution

Tesla Optimus Gen 3: Inside the Humanoid Robot Revolutionizing Industry

Optimus Gen 3 stands about 173 cm tall, weighs 57 kg, can lift roughly 20 kg, can walk at about 5 mph, and is powered by a 2.3 kWh onboard battery. Each Optimus Gen 3 hand has 22 degrees of freedom, with five fingers and four joints per finger plus two wrist joints, enabling human-like dexterity. The robot runs on a Tesla on-board AI brain based on Autopilot hardware, with walking gait and manipulation learned in simulation via reinforcement learning. Public demonstrations in 2024–2025 showed Optimus performing yoga, cracking an egg on a stove, dancing, and bartending, though several feats
31 August 2025
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Figure 02: The Bezos-Backed Humanoid Robot Aiming to Transform Workplaces

Figure 02: The Bezos-Backed Humanoid Robot Aiming to Transform Workplaces

How Figure 02 Stacks Up Against Other Humanoids The humanoid robot space is suddenly getting crowded, with big tech and startups alike racing to build human-like machines. Figure 02 enters a field that includes Tesla’s much-publicized Optimus, Sanctuary AI’s dexterous Phoenix, Agility Robotics’ logistics-focused Digit, and Unitree’s new H1. Here’s how they compare: Outlook: Humanoids on the Rise Figure 02’s debut and its well-heeled backing signal that humanoid robots are no longer just sci-fi fodder – they’re an active development frontier in tech. In 2023–2025 we’ve seen an explosion of progress: robots like Figure 02 and Optimus can now walk, grasp, and
31 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Xero share price (ASX:XRO) ends lower as tech rout grinds on; what investors watch next week

Xero share price (ASX:XRO) ends lower as tech rout grinds on; what investors watch next week

8 February 2026
Xero closed Friday down 0.4% at A$81.76, near last week’s low, as software stocks slumped. The S&P/ASX 200 Tech Index was set to end the week down about 12%, hitting levels last seen in December 2023. Global tech shares also fell, with nearly $1 trillion in value erased from U.S. software stocks since Jan. 28. Investors await fresh rate and inflation signals next week.
Huntington Bank taps ex-BNY risk boss Senthil Kumar as new chief risk officer

Huntington Bank taps ex-BNY risk boss Senthil Kumar as new chief risk officer

8 February 2026
Huntington Bank named Senthil Kumar chief risk officer, effective Feb. 16, as it enters a stricter regulatory category after closing its Cadence Bank merger on Feb. 2. Kumar replaces Helga Houston, who becomes senior executive adviser March 1. The merger brings Huntington’s assets to about $279 billion, triggering tougher oversight. No branch closures are planned before a mid-2026 systems conversion.
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