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AI Storm: $10B Cloud Deals, Biotech Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 25–26, 2025 AI News Roundup)

Meta inked a six-year cloud deal worth over $10 billion with Google to power its AI push, as Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to $66–72 billion and moved to offload $2 billion in data-center assets. Nvidia unveiled a GeForce NOW upgrade to run the Blackwell RTX 5080-class GPUs, enabling 5K at 120 fps and up to 360 fps at 1080p with DLSS 4, announced at Gamescom. OpenAI announced its first international office in New Delhi later in 2025 and launched the cheapest-ever ChatGPT plan in India at about $4.60 per month. The U.S. General Services Administration sealed a

26 August 2025

AI Mega-Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash – August 24–25, 2025 News Roundup

Meta and Google announced a six-year cloud computing deal worth over $10 billion, making Google the backend for Meta’s AI initiatives. Nvidia announced a GeForce NOW upgrade featuring the Blackwell GPU (RTX 5080 class) to roll out in September, delivering 5K at 120fps and up to 360fps at 1080p with sub-30 millisecond latency via DLSS 4. OpenAI will open its first international office in New Delhi later this year as India becomes ChatGPT’s second-largest user base, with a new cheapest plan around $4.60 per month. OpenAI and Retro Biosciences used a GPT-4 variant to design enhanced proteins that produced a

25 August 2025

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Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – AI News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Business & Investment: AI Startups Score Massive Funding Breakthroughs in AI Research & Technology Major AI Product Launches & Updates Policy & Regulation: Governments Grapple with the AI Boom Ethics, Society & AI Controversies Conclusion: These past two days underscored that the AI revolution is touching every sphere – from startups raising fortunes to governments crafting rules, from labs making sci-fi breakthroughs to public figures raising red flags. As one CEO put it, there’s a “fundamental shift” underway: the world is moving from merely talking about AI to actually using it in transformative ways reuters.com. With that shift comes excitement,

20 August 2025

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AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

MIT and Duke researchers used AI to design polymers with iron-based ferrocenes that absorb stress, dramatically speeding up additive discovery from weeks per candidate, with findings published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used a protein language model trained on 500 million sequences to invent OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme designed entirely by AI, which edited human genome cells with high precision and was published in Nature, with OpenCRISPR-1 open-sourced. OpenAI released two open-weight large language models with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters, optimized to run on a single GPU or a laptop, with the weights openly accessible for

7 August 2025

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AI’s Big Bang: Billion-Dollar Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash (Aug 4–5, 2025 AI Roundup)

OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding round led by Dragoneer with a $2.8 billion check, as SoftBank commits up to $40 billion in total (with $10 billion already in April and $30 billion more by year-end) and new backers include Blackstone, TPG, and Sequoia. AI-driven M&A surged to $2.6 trillion in the first seven months of 2025, up 28% in value year over year despite a 16% decline in deal count, led by U.S. mega-deals over $10 billion. In Europe, Engie, RWE, and Enel are repurposing aging coal and gas plants as AI data

5 August 2025

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Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

In July 2025, Meta AI expanded to include generative video editing powered by the MovieGen model, with one-click effects to change outfits, backgrounds, and lighting. WhatsApp introduced an AI concierge for business chats that handles customer inquiries and post-purchase recommendations, announced at Conversations on July 1, with testing in select markets including Mexico and plans for cloud-based voice and video calling. The Ray-Ban smart glasses’ companion app was rebranded as the Meta AI app, enabling hands-free AI queries and moment recording, following the June debut of Oakley Meta Glasses with built-in AI. In mid-July 2025, Meta and AWS announced a

21 July 2025

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AI Revolution: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Battles, and Backlash (July 17–18, 2025)

On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, introducing an agent mode that can take actions such as booking reservations, shopping, or drafting documents and can connect to apps like Gmail and GitHub, with safeguards that the system will always ask for user confirmation before major actions and can be interrupted. Starting immediately, subscribers to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team plans can activate this agent mode. At the AWS Summit New York on July 17, Amazon announced Bedrock AgentCore, a platform with seven core services to enable autonomous AI agents, plus an AI Agents & Tools marketplace and a $100

18 July 2025

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