Society News: 10 February 2025

AI Unmasked: How Artificial Intelligence Really Works and Is Changing Our World

OpenAI expects GPT-5 by summer 2025 with transformative improvements in understanding, memory, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The ImageNet dataset contains 14 million labeled images hand-tagged by thousands of workers, fueling modern vision

3 August 2025

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted

28 July 2025

AI · Chatbots · Future Trends · Society · Technology

The State of AI in 2025: Regulation, Innovation, Risks, and Societal Impact / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 12:00 CET

The EU’s AI Act is set to take effect in mid-2026, imposing strict, risk-based regulations and market access requirements. A 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation was removed from a major US

6 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Innovation · Regulation · Risks · Society

AI News Today: Regulation, Innovation, and Societal Impact / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

The EU’s AI Act is moving forward without delays, with general-purpose AI obligations beginning in August 2024 and high-risk models following in August 2026, with penalties up to 7% of global revenue.

5 July 2025

AI · Innovation · Regulation · Society · Technology

AI in July 2025: Superintelligence, Talent Wars, and Societal Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 00:01 CET

Meta launched its Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), with reports of offers up to $300 million over four years to recruit talent from

3 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Future Trends · Society · Talent · Technology

The State of AI in 2025: Power Struggles, Societal Shifts, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 00:00 CET

In 2025 Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), aiming to reach artificial superintelligence, backed by a $29 billion investment in AI

1 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Future · Society · Technology · Trends

Britain’s Broadband Battle: The Truth About Internet Access Across the UK (and Beyond!)

By 2025, about 99.8% of UK households are within reach of a decent broadband connection (≥10 Mbps). About 97–98% of UK households have an active internet subscription. In 2024, the average fixed

26 June 2025

Infrastructure · Internet · Society · Technology · UK News

Cambodia’s Internet Boom or Digital Doom? Inside the Kingdom’s Connected Revolution

Cambodia has over 22 million cellular subscriptions in a population of about 17 million, yielding a mobile penetration of roughly 131.5% due to multiple SIM ownership. As of early 2023, fixed internet

3 June 2025

Cambodia · Digital Revolution · Internet · Society · Technology

Wi-Fi on Everest, Firewalls in Lhasa: Inside Tibet’s Internet Revolution

A China Mobile 5G base station was installed at Mount Everest base camp at 6,500 meters in 2020, making it the world’s highest 5G site. By 2019, more than 98% of Tibet’s

12 April 2025

Connectivity · Internet · Society · Technology · Tibet

High-Speed Himalayas: Inside Nepal’s Race to Connect Every Peak and Village

Nepal’s mobile market is led by Nepal Telecom with about 57% share, Ncell around 36%, and Smart Telecom about 6%. WorldLink Communications is the largest fixed broadband ISP with 972,781 subscribers as

5 April 2025

Connectivity · Internet · Nepal · Society · Technology

Internet Access in China

By the end of 2023, about 1.09 billion Chinese residents were online (roughly 77.5% of the population), with over 99% of users accessing the net via mobile phones. China’s three major Internet

10 February 2025

Access · China · Internet · Society · Technology

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