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Tech Giants News 15 July 2025 - 21 August 2025

AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Bubble Fears – Top AI News Roundup (Aug 20–21, 2025)

AI Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Bubble Fears – Top AI News Roundup (Aug 20–21, 2025)

Research & Academic Breakthroughs Big Tech Announcements & Business Developments Government Policy & Geopolitics in AI AI in Industry: Applications & Impact Bubble Worries and Industry Outlook A recurring theme across all news was whether the AI boom is entering bubble territory. Even as groundbreaking tech rolled out, industry leaders themselves cautioned about irrational exuberance: In summary, the past 48 hours in AI have been extraordinary, blending breakneck innovation with sobering reality checks. We saw cutting-edge AI models pushing into new domains (from the Sun’s storms to sports playbooks), major corporate bets on AI across industries, and mounting efforts by
21 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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AI’s 48-Hour Whirlwind: Tech Giants Launch Next-Gen Tools as Regulators Strike Back (July 29–30, 2025)

AI’s 48-Hour Whirlwind: Tech Giants Launch Next-Gen Tools as Regulators Strike Back (July 29–30, 2025)

OpenAI rolled out a new ChatGPT “study mode” on July 29, 2025, turning the chatbot into a personal tutor with step-by-step prompts, interactive quizzes, and tailored hints. Google DeepMind upgraded Google Search AI Mode on July 29, 2025, introducing Canvas to structure study guides from uploaded notes, with Live AI interactions via Google Lens and a forthcoming desktop “what’s on your screen” overview. Skild AI unveiled Skild Brain on July 29, 2025, a general-purpose robotics AI model designed to run on nearly any robot, trained from simulations and human demonstrations with built-in force safety limits. Anthropic launched Claude for Financial
30 July 2025
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Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out Grok 4, a multimodal chatbot touted as the world’s smartest AI that can browse the web and run code, with SpaceX investing $2 billion as part of a $5 billion round and Grok slated to power Starlink support and Tesla’s Optimus robots. Hugging Face released
15 July 2025
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