Artificial Intelligence News 7 August 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 Theguardian; Reuters Reuters Reuters; Associated Press Apnews Apnews; Reuters Reuters

10 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Robotics·Semiconductors·Tech News

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

9 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Startups·Tech News

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,

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Gaming·Google·Innovation·Technology

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

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Business News·Investments·Stock Market·Technology

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

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Astronomy·Climate Change·Science News·Technology

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

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Future Tech·Innovation·Tech Trends

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

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·OpenAI·Safety·Technology News

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.

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·OpenAI·Technology News

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,

7 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Technology

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

7 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Future Trends

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,

7 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence

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

7 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Technology

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