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NASDAQ:META News 5 September 2025 - 16 September 2025

GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

AI Titans at War: Inside OpenAI, Google, Meta and the Race to Build AGI

The New AI Arms Race: An Introduction A fierce global competition is underway to build the next generation of artificial intelligence – not just specialized tools, but general AI that could transform society at large. In 2023, the stunning success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT triggered an “AI arms race” among tech giants. By 2025, that race has only accelerated. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI (often backed by each other or investors) are collectively on track to spend hundreds of billions of dollars this year on AI research and infrastructure startupnews.fyi. Their goal? To outdo each other in creating more powerful,
16 September 2025
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Meta’s Leaked Ray-Ban HUD Glasses and ‘Oakley Orion’ Prototype Spark AR Showdown Ahead of Connect 2025

Meta’s Leaked Ray-Ban HUD Glasses and ‘Oakley Orion’ Prototype Spark AR Showdown Ahead of Connect 2025

Meta’s Next-Gen Ray-Ban Glasses with HUD – Features and Strategy Meta’s upcoming Ray-Ban smart glasses are poised to be the company’s most advanced wearable yet, moving beyond simple camera glasses into the realm of augmented reality. According to the leaked video (briefly posted by Meta itself before being removed), the new Ray-Ban frames include a built-in heads-up display (HUD) in one lens businessinsider.com. This small transparent display can overlay digital visuals onto the wearer’s view of the real world – for example, showing navigation arrows, incoming messages, or prompts from an AI assistant roadtovr.com. Unlike bulkier AR headsets, these look
16 September 2025
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Space Races, Chip Wars & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Space Races, Chip Wars & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Electronics: Big Bets and New Launches Meta’s $800 Smart Glasses: Meta Platforms is doubling down on augmented reality hardware. At its upcoming Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will debut Meta’s first consumer smart glasses with an integrated display reuters.com. Codenamed “Hypernova” (to be marketed as Celeste), the high-tech specs feature a mini display in the right lens for basic notifications reuters.com. Analysts expect a steep ~$800 price tag, reflecting Meta’s push to stay relevant in AR even as it lags rivals in AI software reuters.com. The glasses underscore Meta’s strategy to fuse AI and AR – offering
16 September 2025
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Tech Takeover: How High-Tech Innovations Transformed the 2025 WNBA Playoffs

Tech Takeover: How High-Tech Innovations Transformed the 2025 WNBA Playoffs

Player Performance Tracking: Data Dresses the Court Player performance tracking in the 2025 WNBA Playoffs hit a new high-tech peak. Thanks to a landmark deal with Genius Sports, the WNBA installed Second Spectrum optical tracking cameras leaguewide – making it the first women’s pro league in the U.S. with full 3D tracking data wnba.com. An array of cameras in every arena now captures every movement of the players and the ball in x,y,z coordinates. The result is a real-time, dynamic feed of player metrics: speeds, distances run, acceleration, and even detailed shot analytics. For example, teams can see a player’s
15 September 2025
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Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

The Race to $-Per-Token: Coding Models Get Fast & Frugal

xAI Grok Code Fast 1 vs Code Llama and Copilot in Developer TCO Race Comparing Grok Code Fast 1, Code Llama, and GitHub Copilot To understand how xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 stacks up against Meta’s Code Llama and GitHub Copilot, let’s compare them across key dimensions like performance, cost, deployment, and integration. Model Overview & Capabilities Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI): Launched in August 2025 by Elon Musk’s xAI, Grok Code Fast 1 is a coding-specialized large model built from a new architecture and trained on a code-heavy corpus eweek.com. It’s explicitly designed for “agentic” coding assistance, meaning it
14 September 2025
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Agentic AI Revolution: How Autonomous, Goal-Driven AI Agents Are Reshaping Our World

Agentic AI Revolution: How Autonomous, Goal-Driven AI Agents Are Reshaping Our World

Comprehensive Overview of Agentic AI What Is Agentic AI (and How Is It Different from Traditional AI)? Agentic AI, often described as autonomous, goal-oriented AI, refers to AI systems endowed with a form of “agency.” In practical terms, an agentic AI can make independent decisions and take actions in pursuit of an objective, without needing a human to prompt each step. It’s a step beyond traditional AI models that simply respond to explicit inputs. For example, a classic AI system (say, a chess program or a language model like ChatGPT) generates outputs only when prompted and doesn’t initiate further action
10 September 2025
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Internet Under Siege: Cable Chaos, Satellite Surges & Digital Divide Drama (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Internet Under Siege: Cable Chaos, Satellite Surges & Digital Divide Drama (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Sources: Global news reports and press releases from Sept 9–10, 2025 (Reuters, Al Jazeera, Times of India, StateScoop, TS2 Space, and others) were used in compiling this roundup timesofindia.indiatimes.com aljazeera.com space.com reuters.com reuters.com prescottenews.com prescottenews.com prnewswire.com statescoop.com, along with statements from officials and industry leaders aljazeera.com aljazeera.com. Each development reflects the rapidly evolving landscape of global internet access – from physical infrastructure challenges and cutting-edge satellite deployments to the ongoing battles over digital rights and inclusion. The 48 hours of news around September 9–10, 2025, make one thing clear: the push to connect the world’s population continues to face both
10 September 2025
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AI Chaos or Revolution? Here’s What You Missed in the Last 48 Hours

AI Chaos or Revolution? Here’s What You Missed in the Last 48 Hours

Key Facts Big Tech & Product Announcements Google’s Search Gets an AI Upgrade: Google turned its famous homepage Doodle into an AI-powered learning portal this week. For three days, Google’s Doodles highlighted commonly searched school topics – quadratic equations, photosynthesis, and DNA – and clicking on each launched the new “AI Mode” in Google Search blog.google. AI Mode is billed as Google’s most powerful search experience: users can ask follow-up questions about the Doodle topics (or anything else) and get in-depth explanations, complete with suggested links to dig deeper blog.google. Essentially, Google is weaving an educational chatbot into its search
9 September 2025
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Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Internet Access Chaos: Blackouts, Crackdowns & Broadband Breakthroughs (Sept 5–6, 2025)

Major Outages and Internet Shutdowns In early September 2025, multiple outages and deliberate shutdowns disrupted internet access for millions across different regions. In the United States, a major Verizon network failure on August 30 demonstrated the fragility of even advanced telecom systems ts2.tech. Starting around midday (Eastern time), Verizon mobile users from California to New York suddenly lost service, with their phones stuck in emergency “SOS only” mode instead of connecting to any network ts2.tech. By mid-afternoon, outage reports spiked above 23,000 as people complained they couldn’t make calls or use mobile data ts2.tech. Verizon attributed the blackout to a
6 September 2025
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Rokid AR Smart Glasses in 2025 – Rokid Max, New Releases, and the Augmented Reality Competition

Rokid AR Smart Glasses in 2025 – Rokid Max, New Releases, and the Augmented Reality Competition

Image: The new Rokid Glasses use a monochrome green micro-LED waveguide display to overlay information (like navigation prompts and object labels) in the wearer’s field of view techradar.com techradar.com. This built-in AR display is a feature Meta’s current Ray-Ban glasses lack, potentially giving Rokid an edge in functionality. Conclusion: Rokid’s AR smart glasses have evolved from a novel gadget into a credible consumer product line in 2025. The Rokid Max and Max 2 deliver an impressive personal cinema and casual AR experience, garnering praise for their visual quality, comfort, and value. At the same time, reviews temper the hype by pointing out that without
5 September 2025
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Global Internet Access Turmoil: Outages, Crackdowns & New Lifelines (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Global Internet Access Turmoil: Outages, Crackdowns & New Lifelines (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Major Outages and Internet Shutdowns Widespread outages disrupted internet access across multiple regions in recent days. In the United States, a major Verizon network failure on August 30 underscored the fragility of even advanced telecom systems ts2.tech. Starting around midday on the 30th, Verizon wireless customers from California to New York suddenly found their phones showing “SOS only” – meaning no cellular service except emergency calls ts2.tech. By mid-afternoon outage reports spiked above 23,000 as users complained of being unable to make calls or use mobile data ts2.tech. Verizon acknowledged a software issue in its 4G/5G core network and scrambled
5 September 2025
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AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Generative AI Breakthroughs and New Tools OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch took center stage, arriving as the company’s first major model upgrade since GPT-4. Announced in August and now rolling out broadly, GPT-5 is described as OpenAI’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” openai.com. It integrates a novel “thinking” mode that allows longer reasoning when needed, giving expert-level responses in coding, math, writing, vision and more openai.com. The model is unified (one system handling both quick replies and deeper reasoning) and significantly improves factual accuracy, coding abilities and reduced hallucinations. GPT-5 is available to all ChatGPT users (with premium tiers getting extended
5 September 2025
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