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Technology News 7 August 2025 - 8 August 2025

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

Battle of the AI Titans: GPT-5 vs Grok 4 vs Microsoft Copilot – Who Wins the Next-Gen AI Showdown?

GPT-5 launched in August 2025 with a 400,000-token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, test-time compute, and access for about 700 million ChatGPT users worldwide. GPT-5 comes in three tiers—GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano—sharing the 400K context and multimodal input while offering different performance and cost profiles. The GPT-5 API pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per…
8 August 2025
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Complete Guide to Internet Access in Sri Lanka: Fiber, 4G, and Satellite Expansion

Complete Guide to Internet Access in Sri Lanka: Fiber, 4G, and Satellite Expansion

As of early 2025, Sri Lanka has 29.3 million mobile subscriptions, exceeding its population. SLT’s national fiber backbone spans about 45,000 km. By mid-2022, SLT had infrastructure for 1 million fiber connections, with about 500,000 households connected, and aimed to reach 2 million by end-2023. 4G LTE coverage is essentially 100% of the population as of 2024, with 2G nearly…
8 August 2025
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The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

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. July 2022: The BigScience project released BLOOM at 176 billion parameters, covering 46 languages and released under the Responsible AI…
8 August 2025
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Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

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, Genie 2 (late 2024) moved to 3D with 360p at 15 FPS for about 10–20 seconds, and Genie 3 (August…
8 August 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

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 Aug. 6–7 after data-center results disappointed, while AMD’s Q2 data-center revenue rose 14% to $3.2 billion, lagging Nvidia’s 73% surge…
8 August 2025
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Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

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 users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will…
8 August 2025
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Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

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 NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test of its crewed lunar lander…
8 August 2025
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Belgium’s Drone Laws Revealed: 12 Essential Facts You Must Know (2025 Update)

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 (Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport). Drones are categorized by Open, Specific, and Certified categories, with the Open category limited…
8 August 2025
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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, delivering extremely large context windows (hundreds of thousands of tokens) and adding Claude Code for live coding tasks and advanced…
8 August 2025
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Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

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 composition and an audio-generation feature to add sound or speech to videos. December 2024 saw Pollo launch as an all-in-one…
8 August 2025
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Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

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, presets, and seamless round-trips to Photoshop. GIMP is free and open source, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux), and GIMP 3.0 (March…
8 August 2025
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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 Aurora. Grok-4 is integrated into Tesla vehicles as an onboard voice assistant as of July 2025, and the platform introduced…
7 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • UnitedHealth Stock Drives Dow's Nearly 1% Drop Amid Disappointing Earnings
    January 27, 2026, 3:44 PM EST. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 1% on Tuesday, weighed down by UnitedHealth Group's stock, which plunged almost 20% after reporting disappointing earnings and a revenue forecast cut. UnitedHealth faces headwinds from lower Medicare Advantage payments and scaling back operations, hitting its price-weighted influence on the Dow hard. In contrast, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose, buoyed by gains in chip stocks and AI infrastructure companies. UnitedHealth's $351.64 share price makes it a significant factor in the Dow, where stock price drives weight, unlike market-cap weighted indexes. Meanwhile, other high-priced Dow stocks such as Goldman Sachs, Home Depot, and American Express also declined, adding to the index's slide.
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