Weekend Recap News 20 July 2025

Tech Shockwaves: Space Triumphs, Cyber Strikes, and Big Tech Bombshells Rock Weekend (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts In-Depth Report Space & Telecom: Historic Reusability and the Satellite Internet Race SpaceX’s 500th Landing: SpaceX achieved a new reusability milestone on Sept. 5 by successfully landing an orbital booster for the 500th time space.com. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted 28 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center, then its first-stage booster touched down ~8½ minutes later on the Just Read the Instructions droneship – the 27th flight and landing for that particular booster, and SpaceX’s 500th orbital-class landing overall space.com. This achievement – reached just 3 years after the 100th landing – underscores how routine (and cost-saving) rocket reusability has become

7 September 2025

AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Summary Authors vs. AI: $1.5 Billion Settlement and New Copyright Battles Content creators scored a major victory against AI firms.Anthropic – maker of the Claude chatbot – agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who alleged the startup illegally downloaded millions of pirated books to train its AI bloomberg.com. The unprecedented deal (about $3,000 per book for ~500,000 titles) is being called the largest-ever copyright recovery in the AI field axios.com ts2.tech. Under the agreement, Anthropic will delete all illicit book data taken from shadow libraries and pay authors for past use axios.com. “This settlement

7 September 2025

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Hidden Galaxies, “4-in-1” Weight-Loss Drug, and Lightning’s Dirty Secret: Top Science News (Aug 30–31, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy: Cosmic Revelations Webb Discovers “Impossible” Early Galaxies: Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are astonished by 300 unusually bright objects that may be among the earliest galaxies ever to form sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. These galaxies appear far brighter and more massive than expected so soon after the Big Bang. “These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe… If even a few of these objects turn out to be what we think, our discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe,” said Prof. Haojing Yan of the University

31 August 2025

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AI Weekend Shockwave: Breakthroughs, Backlash & Big Moves (Aug 30–31, 2025)

Corporate Announcements and Industry Moves Meta’s AI Strategy – Build, Buy, or Partner Meta Platforms pursued multiple routes to boost its AI offerings. It signed a deal to license Midjourney’s image-generation technology to enhance Meta’s products, and internally its new Superintelligence Labs team has even discussed using rival models from Google or OpenAI to power Meta’s AI features ts2.tech ts2.tech. A Meta spokesperson confirmed an “all-of-the-above” approach: the company will continue developing its own advanced models (like the forthcoming Llama 5) while also collaborating externally and open-sourcing when strategic ts2.tech. These moves aim to quickly bolster Meta’s AI capabilities as it

31 August 2025

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Space Triumphs, Gadget Shockers & Cyber Breaches – Tech Weekend Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, unveiled July 9, 2025, reached general availability on July 25, 2025, and stands 8.9 mm thick when folded with a 200 MP camera. Sony revived its RX1R line with the RX1R III, launched nine years after the last model and featuring a 61 MP full-frame sensor. AMD rolled out the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series on July 23, 2025, led by the 9995WX with 96 Zen 5 cores and an $11,699 price tag. Seagate began shipping 30 TB hard disk drives using HAMR, the largest consumer HDDs on the market, at roughly $600 each. Kioxia announced

27 July 2025

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AI Weekend Shockwave: Global Breakthroughs, Big Tech Bets & Bold Moves (July 19–20, 2025)

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent mode, allowing the chatbot to take actions on a user’s behalf using a built‑in browser and plugins, with access granted to paying subscribers. AWS announced AgentCore, a toolkit to build enterprise AI agents at scale, featuring seven agent services and an AI Agents Marketplace, plus a $100 million fund for agentic AI startups. Meta Platforms formed a new Superintelligence Labs unit and vowed to invest hundreds of billions in AI, hiring Mark Lee and Tom Gunter from Apple and Alexandr Wang of Scale AI as part of an aggressive recruitment drive for AGI, and planning

20 July 2025

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Weekend Recap News 20 July 2025 - 7 September 2025