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Technology Trends News 7 August 2025 - 20 September 2025

Science Shockers: AI-Created Viruses, “Water Worlds” Debunked & More (Sept 19–20, 2025)

Science Shockers: AI-Created Viruses, “Water Worlds” Debunked & More (Sept 19–20, 2025)

Key Facts Artificial Intelligence & Technology AI Designs New Viruses: In a stunning demonstration of AI’s creative power, scientists announced they have used artificial intelligence to design the first-ever viruses from scratch. The AI wrote complete viral genomes for bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) which were then synthesized in the lab nature.com. Several of these AI-generated phages successfully infected and killed E. coli bacteria that natural phages couldn’t attack nature.com. “This is the first time AI systems are able to write coherent genome-scale sequences,” said Stanford computational biologist Brian Hie, calling it a step toward “AI-generated life” nature.com. While still
20 September 2025
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The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

About the 2025 AI Power Index – Methodology and Significance Observer’s 2025 A.I. Power Index is a curated ranking of the 100 most influential individuals steering the future of artificial intelligence. According to the Observer, the list spans “CEOs, researchers, policymakers to investors shaping the future of artificial intelligence” Observer. Unlike lists that focus solely on company metrics or academic citations, the Power Index takes a broad view of “power” in AI, blending technical impact with business and policy influence. Selections were made by the Observer’s editorial team (with input from industry experts and even public nominations via email) to
19 September 2025
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2025’s Robotic Dogs Unleashed: The Ultimate Cyberdog Showdown 🌐🤖🐕

2025’s Robotic Dogs Unleashed: The Ultimate Cyberdog Showdown 🌐🤖🐕

What Are Cyberdogs and Why Are They So Popular? Cyberdogs are four-legged mobile robots that resemble mechanical canines. Unlike toy robots of the past, today’s cyberdogs leverage cutting-edge robotics and AI to move with animal-like agility and respond intelligently to their environment. They can trot, hop, and even dance, blurring the line between machine and pet. Crucially, these robots aren’t just gimmicks – they fulfill real roles: In short, “cyberdog” can mean a playful robo-pet or a hardcore autonomous inspector – or anything in between. Their appeal comes from combining the mobility of a dog (able to step over obstacles,
19 September 2025
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Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

In summary, Amazon’s bold embrace of AI in its finance function illustrates a watershed moment for corporate finance at large. Generative AI is rapidly moving from an experimental tool to a core part of how finance teams operate, enabling analysis and decision support at a speed and scale previously unimaginable. While early automation mostly took the drudgery out of accounting, today’s AI is tackling judgment-intensive tasks like interpreting complex regulations, explaining business drivers, and even drafting strategy documents. This has the potential to elevate the role of finance – shifting professionals toward more strategic, analytical work – but it also
18 September 2025
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Chrome’s Game-Changing AI Features: Smarter Tabs, Instant Writing & Custom Themes (vs. Edge & Safari)

Chrome’s Game-Changing AI Features: Smarter Tabs, Instant Writing & Custom Themes (vs. Edge & Safari)

Sources Chrome’s “Help me write” feature in action: With a short prompt (top), the AI drafts a more detailed, polished message (bottom) for the user to review or insert. Chrome’s writing assistant can pull in context – for example, highlighting key product features if you’re writing a review – to make suggestions more relevant 9to5google.com.
18 September 2025
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Meta’s New $799 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Stun with AR Display & AI Features – Is This the Future of Wearables?

Meta’s New $799 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Stun with AR Display & AI Features – Is This the Future of Wearables?

Meta’s AR Glasses Step into the Spotlight Meta Ray-Ban Display is the social media giant’s boldest foray yet into augmented reality eyewear. Unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 conference on Sept. 17, these smart glasses are the first from Meta (or any mainstream brand) to include a built-in heads-up display since Google Glass theguardian.com. From the outside, they resemble classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, a deliberate choice to avoid the cyborg look that doomed earlier smart glasses theguardian.com. But inside the right lens lies a tiny, high-resolution screen that can overlay digital info into your field of view
18 September 2025
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AI Chip Boom, Google’s New Tricks, and Hollywood’s Robot Wars – Today’s AI News Roundup

AI Chip Wars: USA vs China vs Taiwan – Inside the Trillion-Dollar Race to 2030

Introduction The race for dominance in AI chips – the specialized processors that power artificial intelligence – has become a core battleground in technology and geopolitics. In 2025, the United States, China, and Taiwan stand as key players, each with a different role: the U.S. is home to the leading chip designers, China is a massive and ambitious consumer and emerging producer, and Taiwan is the manufacturing epicenter. AI chips are not only critical for flashy applications like generative AI (think ChatGPT or image generators) but also for a wave of smart devices and autonomous machines. As a result, nations
17 September 2025
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Quantum Revolution 2025: Unhackable Encryption, Superspeed Computing & the 6G Quantum Future

Quantum Revolution 2025: Unhackable Encryption, Superspeed Computing & the 6G Quantum Future

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Securing the Internet Against Quantum Attacks In 2025, the race is on to rebuild our digital security before quantum computers can crack it. Modern encryption protocols like RSA and ECC – which protect everything from online banking to emails – could be rendered obsolete by a powerful quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) refers to new cryptographic algorithms designed to resist quantum attacks while still running on conventional computers csrc.nist.gov csrc.nist.gov. After a 7-year global competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finalized its first PQC standards in August 2024 nist.gov. These include
11 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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Global Internet Access Shockwaves: Cable Cuts, Censorship & Broadband Booms (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Global Internet Access Shockwaves: Cable Cuts, Censorship & Broadband Booms (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Massive Outages and Network Disruptions On September 6, a sudden multi-cable break in the Red Sea sent shockwaves through global connectivity. Several undersea fiber-optic cables (including the SMW4 and IMEWE systems) were simultaneously cut near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia beaumontenterprise.com. The impact was felt across continents – internet traffic between Europe/Asia and the Middle East slowed to a crawl, and countries like Pakistan and India experienced degraded service beaumontenterprise.com. Microsoft’s Azure cloud warned users of increased latency as data was rerouted onto backup paths beaumontenterprise.com. In the Gulf, UAE customers on du and Etisalat noticed sluggish speeds beaumontenterprise.com. While the exact
7 September 2025
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AI Invades the Ivory Tower: Universities Race to Ride the Artificial Intelligence Wave

AI Invades the Ivory Tower: Universities Race to Ride the Artificial Intelligence Wave

Summary of Key Facts: The Rise of AI Degrees – From Tech Hubs to Liberal Arts Colleges Not long ago, “artificial intelligence” in college was confined to niche computer science electives or research labs. Today, it’s going mainstream in higher education. Universities are rapidly rolling out AI majors, minors, and certificates to meet student demand and workforce needs. Carnegie Mellon University made headlines in 2018 as the first to offer a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence skywork.ai. Since then, dozens of universities have followed suit with new programs blending computer science, data science, and machine learning. MIT launched a cross-disciplinary major in
6 September 2025
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AI Layoff Wave of 2025: Salesforce’s 4,000-Job Cut Is Just the Beginning

AI Layoff Wave of 2025: Salesforce’s 4,000-Job Cut Is Just the Beginning

AI Replacing Workers in Tech: Salesforce Leads the Trend Tech companies have been on the forefront of integrating artificial intelligence – and now they’re seeing the workforce shake-ups that come with it. Salesforce made headlines this year when Marc Benioff confirmed the CRM giant cut about 4,000 customer support jobs after rolling out new AI-powered support bots foxbusiness.com foxbusiness.com. These “AI agents” can handle routine customer queries, generate content, and even manage websites automatically latimes.com. The efficiency gains were striking enough that Salesforce stopped backfilling many support roles. “With our AI agent platform, the number of support cases declined and
3 September 2025
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Global Satellite Industry Skyrockets: Inside the $400B Space Boom and the Race to $1+ Trillion by 2035

Global Satellite Industry Skyrockets: Inside the $400B Space Boom and the Race to $1+ Trillion by 2035

Key Facts Industry Overview and Historical Context (A Decade of Transformation) Just 10–15 years ago, the satellite industry was a relatively stable domain dominated by government programs and a handful of commercial players focused on geostationary communications satellites. In 2010 the global space economy was around $277 billion thespacereport.org, heavily driven by broadcasting (satellite TV) and government-funded activities. Since then, the industry has nearly doubled in size, fueled by a wave of private-sector innovation often dubbed the “NewSpace” movement. Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin – founded in 2002 and 2000 respectively – began to challenge traditional aerospace firms by the
2 September 2025
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Trinidad & Tobago’s Internet Boom: From 80% Online to Blazing Broadband Speeds

Trinidad & Tobago’s Internet Boom: From 80% Online to Blazing Broadband Speeds

Overview of Internet Infrastructure (Fixed, Mobile, Fiber & More) Trinidad and Tobago’s internet infrastructure is a mix of modern fiber-optic networks, cable systems, wireless technologies, and mobile broadband. On the fixed broadband side, connectivity is delivered via several technologies: On the mobile side, Trinidad and Tobago is thoroughly covered by 3G/4G mobile data networks: Below is a summary of the main internet access technologies in Trinidad & Tobago: Access Technology Status in T&T (2025) Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Widely deployed in populated areas by Flow, Digicel, and Amplia (TSTT). Provides 100–1000 Mbps plans. Rapid growth in recent years. Cable Broadband (HFC) Extensive coverage
1 September 2025
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Global AI-PC Market Outlook 2025–2030: Rise of the NPU-Enabled Personal Computer

Global AI-PC Market Outlook 2025–2030: Rise of the NPU-Enabled Personal Computer

AI-Powered PC Shipments Surge (2025–2030 Forecast) AI PCs – defined by hardware and software optimized for on-device AI – are on a steep adoption curve. Industry analysts are exceedingly bullish on shipment growth through the latter 2020s: It’s worth noting that these rosy forecasts assume that compelling use cases for on-device AI continue to develop. Some industry experts caution there could be speed bumps (e.g. if users don’t see enough everyday benefit to justify upgrades). But so far, investment in AI features by both software and hardware vendors is only intensifying. Real-time language transcription, personal AI assistants, local generative AI
28 August 2025
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AI Breakthroughs, Backlash & Big Moves – Global Roundup (Aug 23–24, 2025)

AI Breakthroughs, Backlash & Big Moves – Global Roundup (Aug 23–24, 2025)

OpenAI used a specialized GPT-4 variant to design enhanced “Yamanaka factor” proteins for cell rejuvenation, achieving a 50× increase in stem-cell marker expression in lab tests. Adobe launched Acrobat Studio, an AI-powered PDF platform with the new PDF Spaces feature that lets users upload up to 100 documents and chat with AI tutors who summarize content and generate insights. Nvidia announced a GeForce NOW upgrade to the Blackwell (RTX 5080) GPU architecture, enabling 5K streaming at 120 fps and up to 360 fps at 1080p with AI-powered DLSS 4 upscaling and sub-30 ms latency. NASA and IBM unveiled Surya, an
24 August 2025
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AI News Blast: Generative AI Surges, Chip Wars Intensify, and Robots Rise (21–22 August 2025)

AI News Blast: Generative AI Surges, Chip Wars Intensify, and Robots Rise (21–22 August 2025)

OpenAI announced it will open its first India office in New Delhi and launched a ₹380/month ChatGPT plan in India. OpenAI Chief People Officer Julia Villagra departed on August 22, 2025, amid an unprecedented AI talent war. Nvidia paused production of its H20 AI chip for China on August 21, 2025, instructing Amkor Technology, Samsung, and Foxconn to halt related work. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Taiwan on August 22, 2025, meeting with TSMC leadership in Taipei. South Korea announced a 2026 R&D budget boost to ₩35.3 trillion (about $25.2 billion), a nearly 20% increase targeting AI. Google expanded its
22 August 2025
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Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

Google Gemini’s August 2025 Revolution: AI Mode Goes Global, Cars Talk Back, and More

AI Mode in Search expanded to 180 countries in August 2025, powered by Gemini 2.5 with AI Overviews and sign-in free for teens. Volvo EX90 demo at Google I/O 2025 showed Gemini handling in-car voice tasks, with Gemini Live enabling free-form conversations and real-time translation across 40+ languages. Wear OS 6 introduced the Gemini assistant, and Chrome began a preview of Gemini AI for Pro and Ultra subscribers. Gemini CLI was open-sourced in late June 2025, giving free access to Gemini 2.5 Pro via CLI with a 1-million-token context window and up to 60 requests per minute (1,000 per day).
21 August 2025
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AI’s Wild 48 Hours: Bold $34B Bids, Breakthrough Bots & High-Stakes Showdowns (Aug 12–13, 2025)

AI’s Wild 48 Hours: Bold $34B Bids, Breakthrough Bots & High-Stakes Showdowns (Aug 12–13, 2025)

MolmoAct 7B, unveiled by Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), is a 7‑billion‑parameter open‑source model that lets robots plan 3D trajectories before execution and achieved 72%+ success on simulated benchmarks. Beijing‑based Zhipu AI released GLM‑4.5V, a 106B‑parameter open‑source visual reasoning model (12B active) with 64K context, 41 multimodal benchmarks, and 3D RoPE encoding, alongside a companion desktop assistant that analyzes your screen in real time. AI identified 12,000 archaeal antimicrobial peptides called archaeasins using the APEX tool on 230+ species, with 80 peptides tested showing a 93% inhibition rate against drug‑resistant bacteria. YouTube began a U.S. AI age‑gate pilot that
13 August 2025
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Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Gemini Live debuted in late 2024 as Google’s replacement for Google Assistant and is built on the Gemini LLM, enabling real-time screen and camera analysis. Alexa+ was announced in early 2025 and rolled out as a free Prime upgrade (or $19.99/month) with a model-agnostic mix (Nova and Anthropic Claude 2) to handle calendars, reservations, rides, and multi-step actions across apps. Siri with Apple Intelligence runs on-device in iOS 18, supports Type to Siri and follow-ups without repeating “Hey Siri,” and can tap into OpenAI’s ChatGPT for complex queries with user permission. Gemini Live’s Project Astra enables multi-modal vision, letting it
7 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

8 February 2026
AMD shares jumped 8.28% to $208.44 Friday, rebounding after steep losses earlier in the week. Chip stocks rallied as investors bet on continued AI data center spending by major tech firms. Nvidia rose 7.8%, Broadcom gained 7.1%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed up 5.7%. Markets now await macroeconomic data and Nvidia’s late-February results.
Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

8 February 2026
Intel shares rose 4.9% to $50.59 Friday, tracking a 5.7% jump in the PHLX semiconductor index as investors bet on AI-driven data-center spending. Reuters reported Intel and AMD warned Chinese customers of tighter server CPU supply, pushing Intel’s China prices up over 10%. Intel expects supply to improve in Q2. After the bell, Reuters said Intel plans to invest about $100 million in AI chip startup SambaNova Systems.
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