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…
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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…
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On Aug 7, 2025, Dow Jones fell 0.5%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1%, the Nasdaq rose 0.3% to a record high, as Eli Lilly dropped 14% on weak weight-loss drug data. On Aug 7, 2025, the United States imposed about 100% tariffs on imported chips and electronics, with carve-outs for companies that manufacture in the…
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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…
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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…
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Sony raised its full-year profit forecast to ¥1.33 trillion (~$9 billion) and cut tariff impact to ¥70 billion from ¥100 billion. Sony’s PlayStation division first-quarter PS5 sales rose to 2.5 million units, up 4%. SMIC’s Q2 revenue rose 16% to $2.2 billion, with net profit down 19% to $132.5 million, as contingency plans and strong…
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Major AI Product Launches & Updates (Aug 7–8, 2025) Corporate Moves, Funding Frenzy & Executive Shakeups Breakthroughs in AI Research & Innovation Government & Legal Developments in AI AI Ethics, Safety & Society: Key Debates of the Week Sources: OpenAI GPT-5 launch report (Reuters) reuters.com reuters.com; Google $1B education initiative (Reuters) reuters.com reuters.com; Anthropic model…
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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…
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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…
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PixVerse AI released the v4.5 model in August 2025, adding more than 20 features including cinematic camera moves and multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 launched on March 31, 2025, delivering higher-fidelity video with temporal consistency and support for visual reference inputs. Pika Labs released version 2.2 in March 2025, enabling 1080p output up to 10 seconds…
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