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Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 3–4, 2025): Fines, Launches & Big Tech Moves

Google Dodges Antitrust Breakup, Shares Soar Alphabet, Google’s parent company, won a major reprieve in its landmark U.S. antitrust case. On Sept 2, Judge Amit Mehta ruled against breaking up Google, allowing it to retain control of Android and Chrome reuters.com. The decision lifted a huge cloud of uncertainty: Alphabet stock rocketed over 9% in one day, adding about $210 billion in value reuters.com. The ruling permits Google to keep paying partners like Apple to make Google the default search, though it bans some exclusive deals reuters.com. Analysts cheered the “pragmatic” remedy. “This outcome removes a significant legal overhang and signals the

4 September 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

Artificial Intelligence · Big Tech · GPT-5 · News Roundup · Tech Industry

Global AI News: Flirty Chatbot Scandal, Major Breakthroughs & Big Tech Showdowns (Aug 29–30, 2025)

Key Facts Business and Industry Developments Meta’s AI strategy – build, buy, or partner: Meta Platforms pursued a multi-pronged approach to AI. It signed a deal to license Midjourney’s image-generation technology, integrating the startup’s “aesthetic” imaging tools into Meta’s future products reuters.com reuters.com. At the same time, Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs team has explored partnerships with rivals: internal discussions considered using Google’s Gemini and even OpenAI’s models to power Meta’s AI assistant features reuters.com reuters.com. A Meta spokesperson confirmed an “all-of-the-above” approach – developing its own world-class models (like the upcoming Llama 5) while also collaborating externally and open-sourcing when

30 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Big Tech · Breakthroughs · Scandals · Tech News

AI Stocks Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Big Tech Bets & Global Surprises (Aug 14–15, 2025)

Bridgewater Associates more than doubled its Nvidia stake and added to Alphabet and Microsoft holdings in Q2, underscoring conviction that AI mega-caps will drive market gains. On August 14, Oracle and Alphabet’s Google Cloud announced a deal to offer Google’s Gemini generative AI models through Oracle Cloud and to integrate Vertex AI, letting Oracle customers access Gemini on Google infrastructure. Tesla scrapped its in-house Dojo AI supercomputer and pivoted to a unified AI chip roadmap dubbed AI5 and AI6, signaling continued reliance on external GPUs and benefiting Nvidia. On August 14, Nvidia stock fell about 2.5% for the week to

15 August 2025

AI Stocks · Big Tech · Investments · Market Trends · Stock Market · Technology

Quantum Race Heats Up: 10,000+ Qubit Leap, Grid Breakthrough & Big Tech Bets (Aug 1–2, 2025)

Fujitsu unveiled plans to build a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 qubits by fiscal 2030 in Japan, including a target of 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 logical qubits by 2035 under the STAR architecture. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical grid-optimization solution using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte system to schedule 26 generators over 24 hours under the DOE GRID-Q program, with IonQ aiming for 100–200 high-fidelity qubits by 2026. Rigetti Computing announced 99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity on its 36-qubit superconducting processor made of four 9-qubit chiplets, with an August 15 launch and a plan

2 August 2025

Big Tech · Breakthroughs · Innovation · Quantum Computing · Technology

AI News Roundup: Tech Giants Unveil Next-Gen AI, Billion-Dollar Bets, Regulatory Rush & Warnings (Aug 1–2, 2025)

OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 this month (August 2025), integrating the ‘o3’ model and using multiple specialized models instead of a single system. Google DeepMind released Gemini 2.5 “Deep Think” as its most advanced reasoning AI, available August 1, 2025 to subscribers of Google’s AI Ultra plan at $250 per month, and it achieved a 35/42 gold-medal score at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad. AWS announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a preview toolkit to deploy and manage AI agents at scale with a serverless runtime, memory for learning, observability tools, and built-in identity and access controls. DataRobot unveiled “Agent Workforce” built

2 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Big Tech · Industry Updates · Regulatory · Tech News

You Won’t Believe What Just Happened in Tech: July 28–29 Shockers

Stay tuned as we break down the biggest global tech stories (excluding AI) that unfolded over the past two days, organized by category for easy scanning. Consumer Electronics Cybersecurity Semiconductors Space Tech Telecom Automotive Tech Green Tech Policy/Regulatory Changes Sources: The roundup above is compiled from reputable outlets including Reuters, The Verge, and official statements. For more details, see the cited references reuters.com reuters.com et al. Each link points to the original news reporting or document for those who want the full story.

29 July 2025

Big Tech · Innovation · July 2025 · Shocking News · Technology

AI in Overdrive: Weekend of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Dire Warnings (July 27–28, 2025)

On July 27–28, 2025, the White House unveiled an AI Action Plan calling for open-source and open-weight AI models to be freely available worldwide and for regulatory hurdles to be slashed to accelerate innovation. During the July 27–28 weekend, President Trump signed executive orders to expedite AI infrastructure projects and require federally funded AI to maintain political neutrality. At WAIC in Shanghai on July 28, 2025, Premier Li Qiang announced plans for a new international AI cooperation organization to jointly develop and govern AI and urged a global governance framework with broad consensus. The Model-Chip Ecosystem Alliance linked Huawei, Biren,

28 July 2025

AI · Big Tech · Innovation · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:NVDA · Technology · Warnings

Weekend in AI: China’s Global Gambit, Tech Giants’ Moves & a “Godfather” Warning (July 26–27, 2025)

At WAIC 2025 in Shanghai, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced plans to create a new international organization to jointly develop and govern AI, warned that AI could become an exclusive game for a few nations or companies without a global governance consensus, and unveiled a governance action plan inviting worldwide collaboration via open-source communities. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told WAIC that establishing AI rules will be a defining test of international cooperation. U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled America’s AI Action Plan to deregulate AI development, accelerate data-center and chip-fab buildouts, and expand exporting American AI to allies. DeepMind’s Aeneas AI

27 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Big Tech · China · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:NVDA · Tech News · Warnings

AI Revolution Unfolds: Big Tech Bets, Breakthroughs & Bold Policies (July 21–22, 2025)

Google will invest over $25 billion in U.S. AI-related data centers and infrastructure over the next two years, plus $3 billion to modernize two Pennsylvania hydropower plants to power AI data centers, under the AI Works for America initiative. Project Stargate, originally pitched as a $500 billion effort with $100 billion upfront, is being scaled back to building a small data center by year-end (likely in Ohio) after term disputes between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. Moonvalley raised an $84 million funding round led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $154 million to develop licensed-content based, ethical AI video tools

22 July 2025

AI · Big Tech · Business · Innovation · Policy

AI Upheaval: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Bets & Backlash (July 18–19, 2025)

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent on July 18–19, 2025, a mode that lets the chatbot act on the user’s behalf using a virtual browser and plugins like Gmail and GitHub to perform multi-step tasks with user permission. AWS unveiled AgentCore at its NY Summit, a toolkit for enterprises to build and deploy custom AI agents at scale, featuring seven core agent services and an AI Agents Marketplace, plus a $100 million fund for agentic AI startups. Meta Platforms formed Superintelligence Labs and vowed to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in AI, while carrying out a mass talent recruitment including

19 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Big Tech · Breakthroughs · Industry Trends · Tech News

Europe’s New AI Code of Conduct: Inside the Plan to Tame Big Tech’s Models by 2025

The final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was delivered to the European Commission on July 10, 2025. The EU AI Act will apply on August 2, 2025, with a one-year grace period for new GPAI models and two years for existing models before penalties. Adhering to the GPAI Code creates a rebuttable presumption of conformity with the AI Act, effectively a safe harbor for signatories. The Code is structured around three chapters: Transparency, Copyright, and Safety & Security. Frontier GPAI models are those exceeding 10^25 FLOPs of compute, and in 2025 there are an estimated 5–15 companies worldwide with models

17 July 2025

AI Regulation · Big Tech · Ethics · European Union · Policy

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