Technology News 8 August 2025 - 11 August 2025

Europe’s STOXX 600 rose 0.3%, the MSCI World index traded within 0.2% of its all-time high, and Wall Street’s S&P 500 and Nasdaq hovered near records. Bank of America’s fund-manager survey shows 45% of managers are long Nvidia and Microsoft, making the Magnificent 7 the world’s most crowded trade again. Only 5% of investors now expect a hard-landing recession, while a net 14% are overweight equities—the highest since February. Corporate bond spreads have narrowed to near 27-year lows as investors price in a rosier outlook, with Fidelity International’s Mike Riddell saying some managers are hedging by staying very defensive in

OpenAI launched GPT-5, touted as a significant step toward artificial general intelligence and now accessible to free ChatGPT users with usage limits, while being integrated into Microsoft Copilot. OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b (117-billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (21B parameters), which can run on a single high-end GPU (~80 GB VRAM) or a laptop (~16 GB RAM) and are available via Hugging Face, though training data specifics are withheld. NASA and Google unveiled a Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant to aid deep-space crews, announced in a Google blog on Aug. 8, providing real-time health analyses during Artemis missions and succeeding

Space Climate & Environment Health & Medicine Technology & AI OpenAI Unleashes GPT-5: A major leap in artificial intelligence made headlines as OpenAI officially released GPT-5, the newest version of the AI model behind ChatGPT. Launched on Thursday and rolled out globally, GPT-5 is being touted as a significant upgrade in reasoning and expertise. The model has 700 million+ users via ChatGPT, and aims directly at business and professional applications. OpenAI says GPT-5 can “instantaneously” generate working software code, solve advanced math problems, and provide expert-level answers on a wide range of subjects – a notable jump toward AI that

Apple’s Next iPhone May Come with a Higher Price Tag Trump Targets Intel’s CEO, Raising Chip Industry Jitters Trump Family’s Crypto Venture Seeks $1.5 Billion Windfall Google Hack Exposes Millions of Business Contacts in Salesforce Breach University Cyberattack Affects 870,000 People’s Data Space Triumph: Astronauts Splash Down off California Coast Drone Giant DJI Debuts Robot Vacuum with Drone-Level Smarts Sources: The information in this report is drawn from Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, MacRumors, Security Boulevard, CyberSecurity News, and other reliable outlets as cited above reuters.com abcnews.go.com. All quotes and data points are referenced to their original reporting for verification. This comprehensive

Framework Laptop 12 is sold as a $549 DIY kit or about $799 assembled, emphasizing repairability and modularity. Framework uses Intel 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” U‑series CPUs (Core i3-1315U or i5-1334U) with PCMark 10 around 5288, Cinebench multi‑core about 2106, and a Time Spy GPU score near 1255. Framework features a 12.2‑inch IPS touch display at 1920×1200 (16:10) with over 400 nits brightness and a 60 Hz refresh rate. Framework offers four modular expansion ports (two on each side) that connect via USB‑C with about 10 Gbps bandwidth and no Thunderbolt 4 support. Framework uses a 50 Wh battery, delivering roughly