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NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over Janitor AI’s sexual content, prompting a pivot to its own JanitorLLM and a homegrown model release in Beta by late 2023. Janitor AI initially ran on OpenAI GPT-3.5/4 via API, but later developed JanitorLLM, reportedly using an RNN-based approach with hundreds of GPUs to serve millions of queries. By early 2025 the team teased a lore-driven character creation system to
28 July 2025
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AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI assistant, with multi-turn reasoning and deep Android integration, and by July 2025 Gemini could proactively interface with apps like Gmail and WhatsApp. Microsoft rolled out 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot in 2023, embedding GPT-powered copilots in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Windows, with 365 Copilot
27 July 2025
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The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

Vertex AI is Google’s unified platform for developing, training, and deploying machine learning models at scale, integrating data preparation, pipelines, MLOps, and model monitoring with AutoML. Gemini is Google’s multimodal foundation family for text, code, and images, with Gemini 2.5 “Flash” announced in 2025 as a smaller, cost-efficient variant, plus Lyria for music and Imagen for images and Veo for video. Vertex AI Model Garden lets customers deploy Google’s own models or popular open-source models on Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s AI hardware includes Cloud TPU v5e for training and the upcoming 7th‑generation TPU named “Ironwood” for inference, with TPU v5e
27 July 2025
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Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google started Project Glass at Google X around 2011, officially announced in April 2012, with a dramatic June 2012 I/O live demo. Time magazine named Google Glass its Invention of the Year in 2012. The first Explorer Edition shipments began in April 2013, priced at $1,500. Explorer Edition hardware included a 640×360 display (perceived as a 25-inch screen at 8 feet), 5 MP photos, 720p video, bone-conduction audio, 16 GB storage (12 GB usable), 2 GB RAM, a dual-core TI OMAP processor, and a weight of 36 grams. Public reaction shifted to privacy concerns and the ‘Glasshole’ stigma, with bans
20 July 2025
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AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Gemini-Powered AI That Invents Algorithms and Breaks a 56-Year Record

AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Gemini-Powered AI That Invents Algorithms and Breaks a 56-Year Record

In mid-2025, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that uses Google’s Gemini LLMs, an evolutionary search process, and automated testing to autonomously design and improve algorithms. AlphaEvolve generates, tests, and evolves programs in an autonomous pipeline, refining entire codebases rather than a single function. It discovered a 4×4 matrix multiplication method over the complex domain using 48 multiplications, beating Strassen’s 49 from 1969 for the first time in 56 years. It devised a data-center scheduling algorithm that recovers about 0.7% of Google’s worldwide compute capacity, with the code in production for over a year. In hardware, it produced
17 July 2025
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Google’s Gemini AI: The Multimodal Supermodel Aiming to Outshine GPT-4 and Beyond

Google’s Gemini AI: The Multimodal Supermodel Aiming to Outshine GPT-4 and Beyond

Gemini debuted in December 2023 as Google DeepMind’s multimodal AI with Ultra, Pro, and Nano variants. Gemini is trained as a native multimodal model that can process text, images, audio, code, and video. Gemini Ultra achieved 90.0% on the MMLU test, leading on 30 of 32 academic benchmarks and beating GPT-4’s ~86.4%. Gemini 1.0 released December 2023 offered Ultra, Pro, and Nano sizes, with Nano capable of running on Pixel phones for on-device tasks. Gemini 1.5 Pro, revealed February 2024 and broadly deployed by May 2024, used a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts architecture and supported a 1,000,000-token context window (up to 2,000,000
16 July 2025
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Inside YouTube’s 2025 Empire: Ads, Algorithms, and the Fight for Video Dominance

Inside YouTube’s 2025 Empire: Ads, Algorithms, and the Fight for Video Dominance

In Q4 2024, YouTube’s advertising sales reached $10.5 billion, up from $9.2 billion in Q4 2023, boosted by U.S. midterm spending. Analysts estimated YouTube’s 2024 ad revenues at $35–36 billion, about 13–14% of Alphabet’s total ad intake, with some valuing YouTube at roughly $550 billion as a standalone enterprise. As of 2025, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have more than 125 million paying subscribers, with subscription revenues around $14.5 billion in 2024. YouTube Shorts generated over 70 billion daily views by 2023, and Shorts joined the main YouTube Partner Program in early 2023 to share ad revenue with creators. YouTube
16 July 2025
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Galaxy S25 Ultra vs iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Pixel 9 Pro vs OnePlus 13 – The Ultimate 2025 Flagship Showdown

Galaxy S25 Ultra vs iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Pixel 9 Pro vs OnePlus 13 – The Ultimate 2025 Flagship Showdown

The Galaxy S25 Ultra uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy on a 3nm process with custom Oryon CPU cores, delivering about 9,829 Geekbench 6 multi-core points, ahead of the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s ~8,391. The S25 Ultra features a 6.9‑inch 1440×3120 Dynamic AMOLED 2X panel with up to 2600 nits peak brightness, Gorilla Glass Armor 2, and a flat-screen design larger than the S24 Ultra. The S25 Ultra camera array includes a 200MP main, 50MP ultrawide, 50MP 5× telephoto, and 10MP 3× telephoto, with up to 100× digital Space Zoom and the ProVisual Engine. The iPhone 16 Pro Max
15 July 2025
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Google Gemini AI: July 2025 Updates and Developments

Google Gemini AI: July 2025 Updates and Developments

In July 2025, Sameer Samat confirmed that ChromeOS and Android would merge into a single platform, with Android serving as the base for Gemini-powered AI across devices. By early 2025 Google had launched Gemini 2.5 Pro as its most powerful model at the time, with a larger Gemini Ultra planned for broader release later in 2025. The ChromeOS–Android unification is intended to let Gemini AI features run system-wide, enabling consistent AI experiences across phones, tablets, and laptops. Gemini Live on foldables debuted in July 2025, allowing continuous AI assistance on foldable phones and access from the Galaxy Z Flip external
14 July 2025
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Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10a – Rumors, Leaks and Everything We Know

Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10a – Rumors, Leaks and Everything We Know

The Pixel 10 family will include four models: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with codenames Frankel, Blazer, Mustang, and Rango. The launch is expected at a Made by Google event on August 20, 2025, with retail availability around August 28, 2025, marking the 10th Pixel anniversary. Tensor G5 is built on TSMC’s 3nm process (N3E) and is rumored to be Google’s first in-house design, featuring five Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, one Cortex-X4 core, a 1.1 GHz IMG GPU, and about 18 TOPS INT8 AI performance. The Pixel 10 base marks
14 July 2025
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Conversational AI and Voice Assistants – Key Developments (June–July 2025)

Conversational AI and Voice Assistants – Key Developments (June–July 2025)

Amazon’s Alexa+ entered broad early access by mid-2025 and surpassed 1 million users by June 2025. Alexa+ is free for Amazon Prime members and costs $19.99/month for others, and it orchestrates “experts” across services like OpenTable, Spotify, and Uber Eats. Alexa+ can remember personal details and even has its own email for user-provided information, enabling more complex multi-step requests than the old Alexa. In Early Access, about 90% of Alexa+ features are live, with hands-free shopping and advanced video controls still under development. Apple’s Siri saw no major generative AI launch in June 2025, with delays to a likely iOS
11 July 2025
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Johnson & Johnson stock price: What to watch after talc-case law firm ouster and new AFib data

Johnson & Johnson stock price: What to watch after talc-case law firm ouster and new AFib data

7 February 2026
Johnson & Johnson shares rose 0.9% to $239.99 Friday after a New Jersey appeals court disqualified Beasley Allen from state talc cases, citing improper coordination with a former J&J attorney. The ruling affects about 3,600 state lawsuits, while a related federal motion is pending. J&J also reported early 12-month pilot data for its investigational AFib device at a cardiology meeting.
Walmart stock jumps 3% to $131 as Dow clears 50,000 — what to watch before Monday

Walmart stock jumps 3% to $131 as Dow clears 50,000 — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
Walmart shares climbed 3.34% to $131.18 Friday, pushing its market value to about $1.05 trillion as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. Retail stocks mostly gained, with Target up 4.24% and Costco up 1.20%, while Amazon dropped 5.55%. Investors await Walmart’s fiscal Q4 results on Feb. 19 and key U.S. economic data next week.
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