On July 17, 2025, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Agent, a proactive AI assistant that can autonomously carry out multi-step tasks within a secure virtual computer environment for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. ChatGPT Agent can switch between web browsing, running code, plugins, and accessing Connectors to fetch emails from Gmail and files from GitHub to…
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On July 1, 2025, Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash to GA, with Flash-Lite added as a low-latency, low-cost variant. On July 16, 2025, Gemini 2.5 Pro powered Google Search’s AI Mode for premium tiers (Google AI Pro and AI Ultra), introducing Deep Search that autonomously runs hundreds of web searches and…
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OpenAI’s latest experimental reasoning model achieved a gold medal performance at the International Math Olympiad by solving 5 of 6 problems under contest conditions. GPT-5 is reportedly on the horizon as a system of specialized models with a smart router, not a single monolith. Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, predicted AI could reach human‑level problem‑solving…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 24 new Starlink satellites on July 18 from California, with the booster landing for the 14th time on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, expanding the constellation to nearly 8,000 active satellites. Raytheon delivered the OCX GPS control software to the U.S. Space Force, upgrading the Global Positioning System…
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Nuance Communications, acquired by Microsoft in 2022 for about $19.7 billion, pioneered ambient clinical intelligence and Dragon Medical used by more than 550,000 physicians. In 2020 Nuance launched Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) to securely capture doctor‑patient conversations and automatically generate clinical documentation. In March 2023 Nuance announced DAX Express, the first fully AI‑automated clinical documentation…
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Apple Watch Series 10 (2024) features a 1.9-inch OLED display, ECG, SpO₂, skin-temperature sensing, and about 18 hours of battery life, with Series 11 rumored for fall 2025 to bring major innovations such as a possible Watch X design and micro‑LED display. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 (2025) comes in 41mm and 45mm sizes, adds the…
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Denon’s AVR-A1H is a 15-channel flagship AV receiver weighing about 70 pounds, delivering 150 W per channel with four independent sub outputs and 9.4.6 Dolby Atmos support. Marantz launched the CINEMA Series AV receivers, including the 9×110 W Cinema 50 and 11-channel Cinema 40, with 8K HDMI 2.1, Dirac Live upgradeability, and HDAM amplification. Yamaha’s…
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LG G5 OLED (2025) is part of the OLED evo line, features a four-stack panel, up to 165Hz refresh, Alpha 9 Gen8 processor, HDMI 2.1, and comes in 55″–97″ sizes with the 55″ model launched around $2,499. Samsung S95F OLED (2025) delivers up to 2,000 nits peak brightness, a 165Hz panel, four HDMI 2.1 ports,…
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Apple Vision Pro, unveiled in 2023 and shipping in early 2024, uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, is powered by an M2 chip plus a custom R1 processor, offers eye and hand tracking with about 12 ms passthrough latency, an external battery delivering around 2 hours, and starts at $3,499 in the…
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In 2024, over 455 million smart personal audio devices were shipped, including 331.6 million true wireless earbuds. AI-enhanced adaptive ANC uses multimodal sensors to adjust noise cancellation and EQ in real time, including Conversation Detection (Google) and Speak-to-Chat (Sony) examples. Lossless wireless audio is advancing via Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless, and Sennheiser Momentum…
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