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Fortnite Pulls ‘Peacemaker’ Dance Emote Over Nazi Symbol Concerns – Fans Outraged

Fortnite Pulls ‘Peacemaker’ Dance Emote Over Nazi Symbol Concerns – Fans Outraged

Background: Fortnite’s Peacemaker Crossover Fortnite frequently adds pop‑culture crossovers in its Item Shop. In mid-September 2025 it launched a DC Comics collaboration featuring Peacemaker (the James Gunn TV series starring John Cena). The bundle included a Peacemaker character skin, Eagly back-bling, a shield-themed pickaxe and wrap, plus two emotes thegamepost.com. One of those emotes – Peaceful Hips – recreated the silly hip-swaying dance from the show’s Season 2 opening credits fortnite.fandom.com fortnite.fandom.com. As the Fortnite wiki explains, Peaceful Hips “is based on the opening credits sequence for the second season of Peacemaker” fortnite.fandom.com, and it was available for purchase (400 V‑bucks)
28 September 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, featuring a unified architecture with a fast default responder, a deeper “GPT-5 thinking” module, and a smart router, plus multimodal abilities. GPT-5 rolled out to ChatGPT on launch day, with nearly 700 million weekly active users by August 2025 and more than 5 million paying business users. GPT-5 is offered in three sizes — full GPT-5, mini, and nano — with scaled pricing to balance cost and latency. OpenAI introduced a novel “safe-completions” training approach that aims to maximize helpfulness within safety constraints rather than issuing binary refusals for sensitive prompts. On August
21 August 2025
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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’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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F-35 Lightning Strikes in 2025: Upgrades, War Zones, and Global Controversies

F-35 Lightning Strikes in 2025: Upgrades, War Zones, and Global Controversies

In 2025 the F-35 program began full Block 4 modernization, adding more than 75 enhancements, including the APG-85 AESA radar replacing the APG-81 and the TR-3 hardware/software upgrade that enables sensor fusion and open-system architecture. By May 1, 2025 Lockheed Martin had cleared the TR-3 backlog and delivered the last of 72 TR-3-era airframes, reaching roughly 200 F-35s delivered with TR-3 hardware by mid-2025 while full Block 4 software awaited U.S. certification. 2025 was targeted as a record production year with 170–190 total F-35 deliveries planned. Israel’s F-35I Adir jets flew notional Iran strikes in June 2025 with one-way ranges
22 July 2025
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Generative AI Gold Rush: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

Generative AI Gold Rush: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

Major AI Company Announcements and New Launches Notable Research Breakthroughs and AI Milestones Government and Regulatory Updates in AI Funding Frenzy, Acquisitions and Partnerships Investors and tech giants opened the checkbooks in July, signaling that the generative AI boom is still in full swing: Expert Reactions and Industry Perspectives With so many rapid developments, leaders and experts across fields weighed in with both excitement and caution: Emerging Trends and Adoption Shifts July 2025 underscored several powerful trends in generative AI and how it’s being adopted: Sources: OpenAI News openai.com openai.com; TechCrunch techcrunch.com techcrunch.com; The Verge theverge.com theverge.com; BleepingComputer bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com;
20 July 2025
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

In February 2025, xAI unveiled Grok 3, claiming it runs on “10x” more computing power than Grok 2 and was trained on an expanded dataset including court filings. Grok 4 is slated for release shortly after July 4, 2025 and is expected to include a specialized coding module to write software like a human developer. Grok 3 introduced a Think mode and a faster Grok 3 Mini, using dedicated Reasoning models to step through problems, with xAI claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s o3 on some math and science benchmarks. Grok features DeepSearch, an integrated real-time web search that pulls in updates
9 July 2025
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