A Globally Distributed AI Training Milestone In May 2025, the Prime Intellect research team unveiled INTELLECT‑2, a 32-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) that was trained not on a single data-center supercomputer, but on a globally distributed “swarm” of volunteer GPUs chakra.dev. This makes INTELLECT-2 the first LLM of its scale to be trained via fully asynchronous…
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A New Vision for a Conversational Web Imagine every website you visit could talk back – answering your questions in natural language, like a built-in ChatGPT trained on that site’s content. That’s the bold idea behind NLWeb, an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at its Build 2025 conference. NLWeb (short for Natural Language Web) promises…
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Internet Infrastructure: Undersea Cables, Mobile and Terrestrial Networks The Marshall Islands’ internet backbone rests on a single submarine fiber-optic cable. In 2010, the HANTRU-1 undersea cable was extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye Atolls, linking the country to a hub in Pohnpei (FSM) and onward to Guam dig.watch itu.int. This 2,917 km cable (160 Gbps design capacity)…
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Google’s Pixel 10 Event: AI-Powered Phones and Dustproof Foldables Google has officially scheduled its Made by Google launch event for August 20, 2025, in New York City, and the star of the show will be the Pixel 10 series hindustantimes.com. According to Google’s media invite, we can expect four new Pixel models – the Pixel…
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AI Demand Fuels Record Chip Profits The global frenzy for AI chips is translating into explosive growth for chipmakers. Taiwan’s TSMC just posted a 60% year-on-year jump in quarterly profit, its highest ever, driven by “demand for artificial intelligence… getting stronger and stronger,” according to CEO C.C. Wei reuters.com reuters.com. He noted that key customer…
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Apple’s Foldable iPhone: All Current Rumors, Specs, and Release Info Apple appears poised to finally enter the foldable phone arena – and the latest rumors suggest it will do so with a bang. Multiple reports this week reveal surprising details about Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone, including a potentially lower-than-expected price, an ultra-thin “crease-free” display, and…
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Evolution of Google Search: 25 Years of Innovation and Growth Google Search launched in 1998 and rapidly became synonymous with finding information online. It was “far from the first search engine,” but Google quickly gained fame for delivering faster, more relevant results than rivals, thanks largely to its PageRank algorithm for ranking pages. Early innovations…
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For a platform that began with a single “Me at the Zoo” clip in 2005, YouTube in 2025 stands as a half-trillion-dollar behemoth that has “transformed culture through video and built a thriving creative economy” blog.google. Now two decades old, YouTube is the world’s largest video-sharing platform and the second most popular social media network…
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Samsung’s Global Tech Empire: History, Dominance, and What’s Next Samsung’s origins date back to 1938, when founder Lee Byung-chul started a small trading company in Japanese-occupied Korea en.wikipedia.org. Over the decades, Samsung diversified from selling dried fish and groceries into textiles, insurance, retail, and ultimately electronics in the late 1960s en.wikipedia.org. After the founder’s death…
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Overview of Germany’s Internet Infrastructure Germany boasts a well-developed internet infrastructure with widespread availability of broadband and mobile networks. By mid-2023, 99% of German households had access to at least one form of fixed broadband, and about 95.6% had access to “next-generation” high-speed networks (NGA, ≥30 Mbps) point-topic.com. The country historically relied on DSL (digital subscriber…
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