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Artificial Intelligence News 4 August 2025 - 12 August 2025

AI Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Backlash – The Global AI News Roundup (Aug 11–12, 2025)

AI Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Backlash – The Global AI News Roundup (Aug 11–12, 2025)

OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, but by August 11 users reported sluggish responses and a less personal feel, prompting Sam Altman to admit the rollout was bumpy and to keep GPT-4 available for paying users while fixes are rolled out. OpenAI released GPT-OSS models with 20 billion and 120 billion parameters, the first freely downloadable large language models since 2019, available via AWS and excelling at coding, science, and math. Caltech researchers used reinforcement learning with a two-agent system called “player” and “observer” to crack the 60-year Andrews–Curtis Conjecture, showing AI can find solutions to long-standing group-theory problems.
12 August 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: Mega Deals, GPT-5 Hype and Bubble Warnings Fuel Aug 9–10 Market Buzz

AI Stocks Frenzy: Mega Deals, GPT-5 Hype and Bubble Warnings Fuel Aug 9–10 Market Buzz

AMD’s Q2 data-center chip sales rose 14% to $3.2 billion but missed forecasts, while Nvidia’s stock surged 73%. SMCI shares plunged 18% in one day after missing revenue targets and cutting guidance amid Nvidia delays and rising competition, erasing over $6 billion in value overnight. By Aug. 7–8, the AI-chip rally resumed as Nvidia and Broadcom hit all-time highs, and AMD rebounded about 5% while TSMC rose roughly 5% on tariff optimism. The U.S. Commerce Department began issuing licenses for Nvidia’s H20 AI GPUs to China, potentially easing an export ban that Nvidia warned could cost $8 billion in sales
10 August 2025
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AI’s Explosive Weekend: GPT‑5 Debuts, Chip War Escalates, and ‘Deathbots’ Rise (Aug 9–10, 2025)

AI’s Explosive Weekend: GPT‑5 Debuts, Chip War Escalates, and ‘Deathbots’ Rise (Aug 9–10, 2025)

Research Breakthroughs & New AI Technologies Business & Industry Updates Policy, Regulation & Geopolitical Developments Ethical Debates & Public Response New Consumer & Enterprise AI Tools Sources: The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Associated Press apnews.com apnews.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; WashingtonExec washingtonexec.com washingtonexec.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; Axios axios.com axios.com; The Verge theverge.com theverge.com; MarketingProfs (AI Update) marketingprofs.com marketingprofs.com.
10 August 2025
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AI Revolution: GPT-5 Launches, Billion-Dollar Startups, and Global AI Showdowns (Aug 8–9, 2025)

AI Revolution: GPT-5 Launches, Billion-Dollar Startups, and Global AI Showdowns (Aug 8–9, 2025)

OpenAI released GPT-5 on Aug 8, 2025, the first major upgrade to ChatGPT in over two years, with 700 million weekly users and reinforced safety guardrails. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 on Aug 5, 2025, improving software engineering accuracy to 74.5% on its coding benchmark (from 72.5%) and making the model available via API, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Bedrock. Google unveiled MLE-STAR, a machine-learning engineering agent that uses web search and targeted code refinement to autonomously build ML models and has won medals in 63% of evaluated Kaggle competitions. MIT and Duke University announced a polymer-design breakthrough on Aug 5,
9 August 2025
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Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Genie 3, announced by Google DeepMind in August 2025, is the first real-time, interactive world model that can generate dynamic 3D environments from text prompts and let users explore them. Genie 1 (early 2024) produced 256×256 2D scenes with glitches, Genie 2 (late 2024) moved to 3D with 360p at 15 FPS for about 10–20 seconds, and Genie 3 (August 2025) delivers 720p at 24 FPS with multiple minutes of interactive play and about 1 minute of full consistency. Genie 3 uses an auto-regressive, memory-enabled video generator that remembers past frames to maintain coherence, built on Genie 2’s diffusion-based latent-transformer
8 August 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

By Aug. 7, 2025, the Nasdaq Composite reached a record peak driven by chipmakers and AI stocks. OpenAI launched GPT-5 in August 2025 amid a push for ROI in AI. AMD fell about 5% and SMCI dropped over 18% on Aug. 6–7 after data-center results disappointed, while AMD’s Q2 data-center revenue rose 14% to $3.2 billion, lagging Nvidia’s 73% surge in the same segment. Palantir (PLTR) surged nearly 9% in a day after Aug. 5, as it raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second time in 2025, with Q2 revenue of $1 billion and government sales up 53%. Meta
8 August 2025
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Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares
8 August 2025
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AI Just Changed Forever – Here’s Everything That Happened in the Last 48 Hours

AI Just Changed Forever – Here’s Everything That Happened in the Last 48 Hours

Major AI Product Launches & Updates (Aug 7–8, 2025) Corporate Moves, Funding Frenzy & Executive Shakeups Breakthroughs in AI Research & Innovation Government & Legal Developments in AI AI Ethics, Safety & Society: Key Debates of the Week Sources: OpenAI GPT-5 launch report (Reuters) reuters.com reuters.com; Google $1B education initiative (Reuters) reuters.com reuters.com; Anthropic model updates (Pymnts/Bloomberg) pymnts.com pymnts.com; TS2 Space AI News Roundup ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech; MIT News – AI-designed polymer study news.mit.edu; Reuters – AI in materials ts2.tech; Reuters – Profluent AI genome editor (Brownstone/TS2 summary) ts2.tech ts2.tech; The Guardian – DeepMind Genie 3 (AGI world
8 August 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

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

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and is the default model in ChatGPT for all users, both free and paid. GPT-5 is a unified model with an internal router that automatically balances speed and thorough reasoning, and it supports a 400,000-token context window. GPT-5 is multimodal (text and vision) and includes a built-in voice mode for natural spoken conversations, with image interpretation and real-time translation capabilities. GPT-5 demonstrates agentic capabilities by reliably chaining dozens of API calls and tools, achieving a 97% score on OpenAI’s Tau² tool-use benchmark. GPT-5 introduces variants GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, GPT-5-nano, and GPT-5-Pro, with pay-as-you-go API pricing
8 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

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

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and was rolled out to all ChatGPT users, including the free tier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5 as “clearly generally intelligent” and a “PhD-level” expert, a step toward AGI but not AGI yet. GPT-5 features “Think Harder” mode with test-time compute that automatically allocates more processing power for hard questions. GPT-5 provides a 400,000-token context window, vastly larger than GPT-4’s 32,000 tokens, enabling long documents and conversations. GPT-5 is billed as OpenAI’s strongest coding model, capable of generating working software end-to-end from a single prompt and even building a fully functional web app
8 August 2025
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AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

GPTZero was created for academia by Princeton student Edward Tian and now offers an AI vs Human probability score, an AI Vocabulary flag, a ‘Compare with AI Text’ mode, an AI-written explanation, plus a plagiarism checker, citation checker, grammar checker, and an AI Grader with LMS integrations and a Chrome extension. Originality.AI markets an all-in-one content integrity suite with AI detection in 30+ languages (advertised 97.8% multilingual accuracy) and a plagiarism checker, plus a readability scorer, grammar checker, factual accuracy checker, a Chrome extension, a WordPress plugin, and team collaboration. Winston AI positions itself as a multi-modal detector with a
7 August 2025
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AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, restructured in 2019 into a capped-profit model, and by late 2024 was valued at about $150 billion after ChatGPT’s rapid adoption. GPT-4, released in March 2023, is OpenAI’s multimodal model that accepts text and images, with a context window up to 32K tokens and top performance on benchmarks such as the Bar Exam. Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, emphasizes safety with Constitutional AI and released Claude 2 in July 2023 featuring a 100,000-token context, with Claude 4 announced in May 2025 adding web browsing
7 August 2025
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Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox AI, a Canadian startup, claims 15+ million users in 2025 and runs a multi-LLM stack including a GPT-4 variant, Claude 3.5 “Sonnet”, Google Gemini Pro, and LLaMA 3.1. Blackbox is completely free for individual developers as of August 2025, with API access being the only paid component. Blackbox offers a VS Code extension, a web interface, a Chrome browser extension, and an Android mobile app, but as of early 2025 it had no native JetBrains IDE integrations. Core Blackbox capabilities include real-time code generation and autocomplete across 20+ languages, an in-IDE code chat with domain-specific agents, AI README and
7 August 2025
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WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI is a Singapore-based voice-centric conversational AI provider that launched TalkGPT in 2023 as the region’s first ChatGPT-powered customer engagement solution. WIZ.AI claims 98% of users cannot tell they are speaking with a bot due to hyper-localized vocabularies and the ability to mimic local accents. By 2024, WIZ.AI had 300 clients across 17 countries, expanding from Asia into the U.S., the Middle East and Latin America. WIZ.AI operates a 13-billion-parameter LLM powering dialogue management and has domain-specific models, including a Bahasa Indonesia foundation model. In June 2025, WIZ.AI announced a partnership with Agora to enable low-latency real-time voice calls and
7 August 2025
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Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about $2.5–$3 billion. Character.AI launched official iOS and Android apps in 2023, logged 1.7 million installs in its first week, and by late 2023 had over 4.2 million monthly active users in the U.S., with more than 18 million custom characters by 2025. Character.AI introduced Group conversations and Scenes between 2023 and 2025, and AvatarFX adds short animated avatar reactions to
7 August 2025
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AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

PixVerse AI released the v4.5 model in August 2025, adding more than 20 features including cinematic camera moves and multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 launched on March 31, 2025, delivering higher-fidelity video with temporal consistency and support for visual reference inputs. Pika Labs released version 2.2 in March 2025, enabling 1080p output up to 10 seconds and introducing the Picaframes system for smoother keyframe transitions. PixVerse’s tech stack combines Stable Diffusion for images, AnimateDiff for motion, and AudioCraft for audio, with v4.5 adding multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 can anchor outputs around a reference image to maintain style and character consistency across
7 August 2025
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AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

MIT and Duke researchers used AI to design polymers with iron-based ferrocenes that absorb stress, dramatically speeding up additive discovery from weeks per candidate, with findings published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used a protein language model trained on 500 million sequences to invent OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme designed entirely by AI, which edited human genome cells with high precision and was published in Nature, with OpenCRISPR-1 open-sourced. OpenAI released two open-weight large language models with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters, optimized to run on a single GPU or a laptop, with the weights openly accessible for
7 August 2025
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AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

MIT and Duke University researchers used AI to design tougher plastics, identifying iron-based ferrocene additives and mechanophores that make polymer networks absorb stress, with results published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used generative AI to create OpenCRISPR-1, the first AI-designed CRISPR enzyme, which edited human genome cells and was trained on 500 million sequences, with the work published in Nature and open-sourced. OpenAI unveiled two open-weight LLMs with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters that can run on a single GPU or a laptop, with open weights for fine-tuning and availability on AWS Bedrock. Thomson Reuters launched CoCounsel Legal,
6 August 2025
AI’s Big Bang: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 4–5, 2025 AI Roundup)

AI’s Big Bang: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 4–5, 2025 AI Roundup)

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 trillion in the first seven months of 2025, up 28% in value year over year despite a 16% decline in deal count, led by U.S. mega-deals over $10 billion. In Europe, Engie, RWE, and Enel are repurposing aging coal and gas plants as AI data
5 August 2025
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AI Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Anthropic Claude – Which Model Leads the Pack?

AI Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Anthropic Claude – Which Model Leads the Pack?

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 main variants—Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet—featuring a 200K token context and an extended thinking mode for chain-of-thought reasoning. Google’s Gemini 2.5 arrived in mid-2025 as the first publicly available multi-agent model, with Pro and Flash variants and a full 1M token context. Gemini
4 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

CleanSpark stock price jumps 22% after earnings and AI push — what CLSK traders watch next week

CleanSpark stock price jumps 22% after earnings and AI push — what CLSK traders watch next week

7 February 2026
CleanSpark shares jumped 22% to $10.08 Friday after quarterly results and an AI infrastructure update, following bitcoin’s rebound above $70,000. The company reported a quarterly net loss tied to bitcoin price swings and outlined plans to expand power capacity in Houston. Peers Marathon Digital and Riot Platforms also surged. Upcoming U.S. jobs and inflation data next week could add further volatility.
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