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Space Race Heats Up: Vulcan’s Milestone Launch, Ariane 6 Success, and Mega-Constellations Surge (Aug 13-14, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Vulcan’s Milestone Launch, Ariane 6 Success, and Mega-Constellations Surge (Aug 13-14, 2025)

Vulcan Centaur debuted on its first national security mission, USSF-106, launching from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2025 at 8:56 p.m. EDT and is powered by two BE-4 engines while carrying the NTS-3 satellite. The USSF-106 mission deployed the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) and marks the Defense Department’s shift to flying critical military satellites on domestic rockets powered by U.S.-made engines. Ariane 6 mission VA264 delivered MetOp-SG A1 to a 800 km polar sun-synchronous orbit after a 2:37 a.m. CEST launch from Kourou on August 13. MetOp-SG A1 is Europe’s next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite, built by Airbus for ESA/EUMETSAT and
14 August 2025
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Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Apple is developing a home companion robot—a 7-inch iPad-like display on a movable arm—targeting a 2027 launch, internally dubbed the “Pixar Lamp,” with a more lifelike, conversational Siri. Pebble Time 2 features a 1.5-inch color e-paper display, heart-rate sensor, and about 30-day battery life, while Pebble 2 Duo uses a black-and-white display with no HR monitor, both running an updated Pebble OS. Amazon expanded Prime same-day delivery of perishables to over 1,000 U.S. cities, with expansion to 2,300 cities by year-end, free for Prime orders of $25 or more, under a $4 billion logistics push. On August 13, President Donald
14 August 2025
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Beyond AI: 8 Must-Read Tech News Highlights from August 11–12, 2025

Beyond AI: 8 Must-Read Tech News Highlights from August 11–12, 2025

Google sets August 20 for the Pixel 10 launch, unveiling the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold with IP68 water and dust resistance that outclasses Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will resign to found a new startup, with Microsoft having acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018 and Julia Liuson named interim to oversee engineering, revenue, and support. Marks & Spencer restored Click & Collect on August 11 after almost four months offline due to a cyberattack that cost about £300 million in lost profit for the 141-year-old retailer. Paramount agreed
12 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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Dazzling Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight – Your Skywatch Guide for August 11–12, 2025

Dazzling Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight – Your Skywatch Guide for August 11–12, 2025

Perseid meteor shower peaks August 11–12 (into the pre-dawn hours) with an 84% full Moon washing out fainter meteors, so expected rates drop to about 10–20 per hour instead of the usual 50–100. The best viewing window is midnight to dawn, with a peak surge around 2–3 a.m. local time as the Perseid radiant in Perseus climbs high. Fireballs may still appear, and occasional long-lasting earthgrazers could skim the atmosphere early in the night even under moonlight. Venus and Jupiter form a close dawn conjunction on August 11–12, about 1 degree apart, visible to the naked eye about 1–2 hours
11 August 2025
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Tech Shocks: Chips Squeezed, Hacks Mended & Space Race Delays – Tech News Roundup (Aug 10–11, 2025)

Tech Shocks: Chips Squeezed, Hacks Mended & Space Race Delays – Tech News Roundup (Aug 10–11, 2025)

AOL will discontinue its Dial-up Internet service on September 30, 2025 after a 34-year run. AOL will retire the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both optimized for older operating systems, alongside the dial-up shutdown. Marks & Spencer relaunched its online click-and-collect service on August 11, 2025 after a 15-week ransomware outage that began in late April, with four suspects linked to the DragonForce group arrested. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered urgent patches for a Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability that could enable total domain compromise, with federal agencies told to patch by August 11, 2025. Nvidia
11 August 2025
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Astronaut Homecoming, Rocket Drama & Moon Race Milestones – Space News Roundup (Aug 9–10, 2025)

Astronaut Homecoming, Rocket Drama & Moon Race Milestones – Space News Roundup (Aug 9–10, 2025)

NASA’s Crew-10 returned four astronauts—Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov—from nearly five months aboard the ISS, as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance splashed down off San Diego at 11:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 9, marking NASA’s first Pacific Ocean crew recovery in 50 years. Crew-11 arrived at the ISS a week before Crew-10’s splashdown, restoring the station to seven crew and continuing the U.S.–Russian seat-swap arrangement through 2027, with every SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying a Russian cosmonaut and every Soyuz carrying an American. Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov visited Florida for the Crew-11 launch, the first face-to-face meeting of
10 August 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: GPT-5 Hype, Record Highs & Billion-Dollar Bets Fuel Aug 8–9 Market Surge

AI Stocks Frenzy: GPT-5 Hype, Record Highs & Billion-Dollar Bets Fuel Aug 8–9 Market Surge

OpenAI launched GPT-5 on Aug. 7, 2025, touting expert-level capabilities and 700 million ChatGPT users. On Aug. 7, 2025, the U.S. Commerce Department began licensing Nvidia to export its H20 AI chips to China, reversing a ban and potentially restoring access to a huge market. AMD shares fell 5.1% and SMCI dropped 18.2% after Q2 data-center results disappointed, with AMD data-center revenue rising 14% to $3.2 billion but under forecasts. Nvidia and Broadcom hit all-time highs and notched record closes as the AI chip rally regained momentum. Meta Platforms raised $29 billion for AI data centers, with about $26 billion
9 August 2025
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Historic Splashdowns, Lunar Leaps & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Historic Splashdowns, Lunar Leaps & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 8–9, 2025)

NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov completed a 146-day mission with a splashdown off the California coast at 11:33 a.m. ET on Aug. 9, 2025, the first crewed West Coast splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. China completed the first full-scale test of the Lanyue (“Embrace the Moon”) crewed lunar lander in Hebei on Aug. 6, 2025, validating its ascent and descent engines ahead of a 2030 lunar mission. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated for its first national-security launch with mission USSF-106 as early as Aug. 12, 2025, marking Vulcan’s inaugural national-security and Post-Certification
9 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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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025, delivering extremely large context windows (hundreds of thousands of tokens) and adding Claude Code for live coding tasks and advanced document analysis. Perplexity launched Perplexity Max in July 2025, introducing the Comet autonomous agent, and by May 2025 it processed about 780 million queries per month, up 20% month over month. By 2025 each service offers premium plans around $20
8 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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