Major Corporate AI Announcements and Product Releases OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent was unveiled, introducing a personal AI assistant mode within ChatGPT. OpenAI launched ChatGPT “Agent” on July 17, adding powerful new “agentic” capabilities to its popular chatbot reuters.com inkl.com. Unlike a traditional chatbot that only generates text, the agent can take actions on behalf of users…
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Tech news on July 17 and 18, 2025 saw breakthroughs and surprises across consumer gadgets, industry deals, financial results, regulatory moves, and even outer space. Below we break down the major developments in consumer technology, enterprise & industry, markets, regulation, and infrastructure/space tech – complete with expert quotes and sources. Consumer Tech: Gadgets, Apps &…
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Introduction Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max and Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra are poised to be two of the most advanced smartphones of 2025/2026, representing the pinnacle of each company’s innovation. This comparison aims to give an in-depth look at how these flagship titans stack up across every aspect – from design and display to performance,…
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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2025 is no longer a futuristic concept – it’s a daily reality, powering everything from our smartphones to our hospitals and highways. AI systems today help doctors diagnose diseases, enable cars to drive themselves, and answer our questions via human-like chatbots. In fact, AI is now deeply integrated into nearly…
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ChatGPT Evolves From Chatbot to Personal Assistant OpenAI has rolled out a major upgrade to ChatGPT, turning the popular chatbot into a personal AI assistant capable of not just answering questions, but taking actions on a user’s behalf. Dubbed the ChatGPT “Agent”, the new feature launched on Thursday and allows ChatGPT to “think” and act…
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Introduction The European Union is rolling out a groundbreaking AI Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models – essentially a voluntary code of conduct aimed at taming the likes of ChatGPT and other big AI systems ahead of sweeping new laws. The EU AI Act, the bloc’s landmark AI regulation, will fully apply in August…
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A Globally Distributed AI Training Milestone In May 2025, the Prime Intellect research team unveiled INTELLECT‑2, a 32-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) that was trained not on a single data-center supercomputer, but on a globally distributed “swarm” of volunteer GPUs chakra.dev. This makes INTELLECT-2 the first LLM of its scale to be trained via fully asynchronous…
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A New Vision for a Conversational Web Imagine every website you visit could talk back – answering your questions in natural language, like a built-in ChatGPT trained on that site’s content. That’s the bold idea behind NLWeb, an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at its Build 2025 conference. NLWeb (short for Natural Language Web) promises…
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Internet Infrastructure: Undersea Cables, Mobile and Terrestrial Networks The Marshall Islands’ internet backbone rests on a single submarine fiber-optic cable. In 2010, the HANTRU-1 undersea cable was extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye Atolls, linking the country to a hub in Pohnpei (FSM) and onward to Guam dig.watch itu.int. This 2,917 km cable (160 Gbps design capacity)…
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AI Demand Fuels Record Chip Profits The global frenzy for AI chips is translating into explosive growth for chipmakers. Taiwan’s TSMC just posted a 60% year-on-year jump in quarterly profit, its highest ever, driven by “demand for artificial intelligence… getting stronger and stronger,” according to CEO C.C. Wei reuters.com reuters.com. He noted that key customer…
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