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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, featuring a unified architecture with a fast default responder, a deeper “GPT-5 thinking” module, and a smart router, plus multimodal abilities. GPT-5 rolled out to ChatGPT on launch day, with nearly 700 million weekly active users by August 2025 and more than 5 million paying business users. GPT-5 is offered in three sizes — full GPT-5, mini, and nano — with scaled pricing to balance cost and latency. OpenAI introduced a novel “safe-completions” training approach that aims to maximize helpfulness within safety constraints rather than issuing binary refusals for sensitive prompts. On August

21 August 2025

F-35 Lightning Strikes in 2025: Upgrades, War Zones, and Global Controversies

In 2025 the F-35 program began full Block 4 modernization, adding more than 75 enhancements, including the APG-85 AESA radar replacing the APG-81 and the TR-3 hardware/software upgrade that enables sensor fusion and open-system architecture. By May 1, 2025 Lockheed Martin had cleared the TR-3 backlog and delivered the last of 72 TR-3-era airframes, reaching roughly 200 F-35s delivered with TR-3 hardware by mid-2025 while full Block 4 software awaited U.S. certification. 2025 was targeted as a record production year with 170–190 total F-35 deliveries planned. Israel’s F-35I Adir jets flew notional Iran strikes in June 2025 with one-way ranges

22 July 2025

Controversies · F-35 · Global Security · Military Technology · NYSE:LMT · Upgrades

Google Search’s 2025 Revolution: AI Breakthroughs, Controversies, and the Future of Search

Google launched the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May 2023, an AI-driven results format that places an AI-generated snapshot at the top of the page using PaLM-era models and later Gemini. Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012, a semantic database powering knowledge panels with over 500 billion facts about more than 5 billion entities. By 2025 Google processes more than 5 trillion searches per year (about 14 billion per day), and it holds a global market share around 90% plus, with mobile searches accounting for over 60% in the U.S. and over 93% globally. From 2023 to 2025 Google

16 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Future Trends · Google Search · Search Engines · Tech Controversies

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

In February 2025, xAI unveiled Grok 3, claiming it runs on “10x” more computing power than Grok 2 and was trained on an expanded dataset including court filings. Grok 4 is slated for release shortly after July 4, 2025 and is expected to include a specialized coding module to write software like a human developer. Grok 3 introduced a Think mode and a faster Grok 3 Mini, using dedicated Reasoning models to step through problems, with xAI claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s o3 on some math and science benchmarks. Grok features DeepSearch, an integrated real-time web search that pulls in updates

9 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Controversies · Elon Musk · Grok AI · Tech News

AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent wars where engineers command salaries in the tens of millions per year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns millions of jobs—especially entry-level roles—could be automated within five years, as UK entry-level postings drop 32% since late 2022. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated indie band, amassed over

9 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Breakthroughs · Ethics · Global Trends · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:MSFT · NYSE:IBM · Technology