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AI Stocks Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Big Tech Bets & Global Surprises (Aug 14–15, 2025)

AI Stocks Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Deals, Big Tech Bets & Global Surprises (Aug 14–15, 2025)

Bridgewater Associates more than doubled its Nvidia stake and added to Alphabet and Microsoft holdings in Q2, underscoring conviction that AI mega-caps will drive market gains. On August 14, Oracle and Alphabet’s Google Cloud announced a deal to offer Google’s Gemini generative AI models through Oracle Cloud and to integrate Vertex AI, letting Oracle customers access Gemini on Google infrastructure. Tesla scrapped its in-house Dojo AI supercomputer and pivoted to a unified AI chip roadmap dubbed AI5 and AI6, signaling continued reliance on external GPUs and benefiting Nvidia. On August 14, Nvidia stock fell about 2.5% for the week to
15 August 2025
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Global Tech Roundup (Non‑AI): Record EV Feats, Cyber Sabotage, and High‑Stakes Chip Moves (Aug 14–15, 2025)

Global Tech Roundup (Non‑AI): Record EV Feats, Cyber Sabotage, and High‑Stakes Chip Moves (Aug 14–15, 2025)

Consumer Electronics & Hardware Cybersecurity Semiconductors Telecom Space Tech Automotive Tech Sources: TechCrunch techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com; Kodak techcrunch.com kodak.com; TechCrunch techcrunch.com theguardian.com; The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com; Bank Info Security bankinfosecurity.com bankinfosecurity.com bankinfosecurity.com; Space.com space.com space.com; GM Press Release news.gm.com news.gm.com.
15 August 2025
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Next-Gen Laptop Chip Showdown: Intel’s Lunar Lake vs. AMD’s Ryzen AI vs. Qualcomm’s X Elite – Who Wins the AI PC Crown?

Next-Gen Laptop Chip Showdown: Intel’s Lunar Lake vs. AMD’s Ryzen AI vs. Qualcomm’s X Elite – Who Wins the AI PC Crown?

Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V uses a disaggregated 3 nm TSMC N3B compute tile with 4 Lion Cove P-cores and 4 Skymont E-cores (8 cores total), SMT disabled to save ~15% die area and boost perf/W by ~5%. Intel also boosts single-thread IPC by ~14% versus Redwood Cove and widens caches to 2.5 MB L2 per P-core, while Skymont E-cores gain ~68% IPC over Crestmont. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” combines 12 CPU cores (4 Zen 5 and 8 Zen 5c) with base TDP 28 W up to 54 W and includes an on‑die XDNA 2
14 August 2025
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Flying Taxi Showdown: Joby S4 vs Archer Midnight vs Volocopter VoloCity – Who Will Rule the Skies?

Flying Taxi Showdown: Joby S4 vs Archer Midnight vs Volocopter VoloCity – Who Will Rule the Skies?

Joby S4 is a five-seat eVTOL with a fixed wing and six tilting propellers (four on the wing and two on a V-shaped tail), about 21 ft long with a 39 ft wingspan, capable of cruising up to 200 mph and achieving a usable range of roughly 100 miles. The S4 uses six independent motors fed by lithium-ion packs totaling over 200 kWh usable energy (cell energy density around 288 Wh/kg) and can deliver about 236 kW peak power. The S4 is designed for low noise, measured at about 45 dBA during cruise at 500 meters, and its battery is
14 August 2025
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Night Photography Showdown: 2025’s Best and Brightest Smartphone Cameras Revealed

Night Photography Showdown: 2025’s Best and Brightest Smartphone Cameras Revealed

Google Pixel 7 Pro (2022) and Pixel 8 Pro (2023) use a 50 MP main sensor, and Night Sight now runs twice as fast, cutting exposure time in half for dim scenes. Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro Max introduced the Photonic Engine, delivering up to 2× better main-camera night performance and 3× better ultrawide results versus the iPhone 13 across mid- to low-light conditions. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (2023) features a 200 MP main camera using the ISOCELL HP2 sensor with 16-to-1 pixel binning, creating 12 MP images with 2.4 µm effective pixels and brighter, less-noisy night shots. Huawei P60 Pro
14 August 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Vulcan’s Milestone Launch, Ariane 6 Success, and Mega-Constellations Surge (Aug 13-14, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Vulcan’s Milestone Launch, Ariane 6 Success, and Mega-Constellations Surge (Aug 13-14, 2025)

Vulcan Centaur debuted on its first national security mission, USSF-106, launching from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2025 at 8:56 p.m. EDT and is powered by two BE-4 engines while carrying the NTS-3 satellite. The USSF-106 mission deployed the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) and marks the Defense Department’s shift to flying critical military satellites on domestic rockets powered by U.S.-made engines. Ariane 6 mission VA264 delivered MetOp-SG A1 to a 800 km polar sun-synchronous orbit after a 2:37 a.m. CEST launch from Kourou on August 13. MetOp-SG A1 is Europe’s next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite, built by Airbus for ESA/EUMETSAT and
14 August 2025
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Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Apple is developing a home companion robot—a 7-inch iPad-like display on a movable arm—targeting a 2027 launch, internally dubbed the “Pixar Lamp,” with a more lifelike, conversational Siri. Pebble Time 2 features a 1.5-inch color e-paper display, heart-rate sensor, and about 30-day battery life, while Pebble 2 Duo uses a black-and-white display with no HR monitor, both running an updated Pebble OS. Amazon expanded Prime same-day delivery of perishables to over 1,000 U.S. cities, with expansion to 2,300 cities by year-end, free for Prime orders of $25 or more, under a $4 billion logistics push. On August 13, President Donald
14 August 2025
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AI Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Self-Learning Breakthroughs & Legal Showdowns – Global AI Roundup (Aug 13–14, 2025)

AI Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Self-Learning Breakthroughs & Legal Showdowns – Global AI Roundup (Aug 13–14, 2025)

Meta says its latest AI systems are beginning to improve themselves without human intervention, a step Mark Zuckerberg called toward artificial superintelligence, with a policy memo noting “glimpses” of self-improvement. Zhipu (Z AI) open-sourced GLM-4.5, a 355-billion-parameter model built on mixture-of-experts, ranking third globally on reasoning and coding benchmarks, as China reports over 1,500 domestically developed large AI models. Google pledged $9 billion to expand its U.S. AI infrastructure, including a new data center campus in Oklahoma, raising annual capex to $85 billion and committing $1 billion for AI training in more than 100 U.S. colleges. Cisco reported $2 billion
14 August 2025
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Is AI in Smartphones Just Hype? We Test Which Features Actually Work

Is AI in Smartphones Just Hype? We Test Which Features Actually Work

Pixel 9’s Add Me and Magic Editor enable inserting the photographer into a group shot and text-prompt–driven image edits, with guardrails and occasional misfires. In iPhone 16 running iOS 18, Apple Intelligence adds object removal and description-based photo search, while the Neural Engine powers Smart HDR, Deep Fusion, and Photonic Engine with most AI processing on-device for privacy. Galaxy S24 Ultra adds Generative Photo Edit that uses Google’s Imagen 2 in the cloud to add or remove elements in photos, and also offers on-device Live Translate for calls, though the edits can occasionally feel distracting when misapplied. On Pixel 9,
14 August 2025
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Celestron 8SE vs Skymax 127 vs Vaonis Vespera II – Which Telescope Outshines the Rest in 2025?

Celestron 8SE vs Skymax 127 vs Vaonis Vespera II – Which Telescope Outshines the Rest in 2025?

Celestron NexStar 8SE is an 8-inch (203.2 mm) Schmidt-Cassegrain with a 2032 mm focal length (f/10) on a computerized alt-azimuth GoTo mount. Sky-Watcher Skymax 127 is a 5-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain with a 127 mm primary (about 120 mm effective) and ~1500 mm focal length (f/12), optimized for high magnification. Vaonis Vespera II is a 50 mm apochromatic quadruplet refractor (f/5) with a 250 mm focal length and an onboard 8.3 MP Sony IMX585 sensor, viewed through a smartphone app rather than a traditional eyepiece. The 8SE uses Celestron’s NexStar+ computerized hand controller with a ~40,000-object database for GoTo targeting. The Skymax
13 August 2025
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Record Stock Rally and a $34 Billion Tech Shock: Inside the Biggest Business News of August 12-13, 2025

Record Stock Rally and a $34 Billion Tech Shock: Inside the Biggest Business News of August 12-13, 2025

From Wall Street hitting new highs to an AI upstart targeting a piece of Google’s empire, the past two days brought a flurry of major developments across global business. Below is a structured roundup of the top news from August 12 and 13, 2025, spanning finance, technology, energy, retail, automotive, and healthcare. Finance & Markets Technology Energy & Commodities Retail & Consumer Automotive & Transportation Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Sources: Reuters business news and market reports from August 12-13, 2025 reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com, and others as cited above.
13 August 2025
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Flagship Showdown 2025: iPhone 16 Plus vs Xiaomi 15 Pro vs Oppo Find X8 Pro

Flagship Showdown 2025: iPhone 16 Plus vs Xiaomi 15 Pro vs Oppo Find X8 Pro

The iPhone 16 Plus runs on Apple’s A18 chip built on a 3nm process, featuring a 6-core CPU (2 performance + 4 efficiency), a 5-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and 8 GB of RAM. It uses a 6.7-inch 2796×1290 OLED display with a 60 Hz refresh rate, 460 ppi, and up to 2000 nits outdoor brightness. The iPhone 16 Plus camera system comprises a 48 MP main sensor with a 12 MP ultrawide and a 2× lossless telephoto crop for zoom. The iPhone 16 Plus carries a 4,674 mAh battery, is rated for up to about 72 hours of
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Stock Market Today

Wesfarmers share price: what to watch on ASX next week as results loom

Wesfarmers share price: what to watch on ASX next week as results loom

7 February 2026
Wesfarmers shares closed down 1.33% at A$85.04 on Friday, following a sharp drop in the S&P/ASX 200, which fell 2% for its steepest one-day loss in 10 months. Investors are watching for Australia’s household spending data next week and Wesfarmers’ half-year results due Feb. 19.
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