Technology News 7 August 2025

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development.

8 August 2025

AI·Innovation·Technology

Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Genie 3, announced by Google DeepMind in August 2025, is the first real-time, interactive world model that can generate dynamic 3D environments from text prompts and let users explore them. Genie 1 (early 2024) produced 256×256 2D scenes with glitches,

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Gaming·Google·Innovation·Technology

AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

By Aug. 7, 2025, the Nasdaq Composite reached a record peak driven by chipmakers and AI stocks. OpenAI launched GPT-5 in August 2025 amid a push for ROI in AI. AMD fell about 5% and SMCI dropped over 18% on

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Business News·Investments·Stock Market·Technology

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Astronomy·Climate Change·Science News·Technology

Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under

8 August 2025

Astronomy·Business Deals·Science News·Space·Space Exploration·Technology

Belgium’s Drone Laws Revealed: 12 Essential Facts You Must Know (2025 Update)

Belgium has operated under the EU Drone Regulation since December 31, 2020, aligning national rules with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Enforcement is conducted by the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority (BCAA), part of the FPS Mobility and Transport

8 August 2025

Drones·Regulations·Technology

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025,

8 August 2025

AI·Comparisons·Technology

Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

In late 2024, MiniMax released Hailuo’s first text-to-video model “Video-01,” and its current Hailuo-02 can generate 6‑second 720p videos at ~25 fps from text prompts and images. As of January 2025, Hailuo added a multi-shot “Director Mode” for controlled shot

8 August 2025

Comparisons·Reviews·Technology

Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship raster editor, available on Windows, macOS, and iPad, with Creative Cloud integration and AI features like Neural Filters and Generative Fill. Lightroom Classic offers end-to-end photography workflow with a library, Develop module, non-destructive edits, batch processing,

8 August 2025

Photography·Reviews·Technology

Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

The AI Chatbot Showdown of 2025: Grok vs DeepSeek vs Perplexity

Grok is Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot built on the Grok LLM family, with Grok-4 released in July 2025 and Grok-3 trained in a 200,000-GPU data center codenamed Colossus, plus built-in web search by late 2024 and multimodal image generation via

7 August 2025

Comparisons·Reviews·Technology

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and includes a Real-time Canvas for sketch-to-image editing and

7 August 2025

Reviews·Technology

Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

By the end of 2023 Liechtenstein completed a nationwide Fiber-to-the-Home rollout, connecting 99%+ of buildings to gigabit fiber and making LKW the passive network owner. As of early 2025, internet penetration is 97.3% with about 38.9k users out of 40k.

7 August 2025

Connectivity·Europe·Technology

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