OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, restructured in 2019 into a capped-profit model, and by late 2024 was valued at about $150 billion after ChatGPT’s rapid adoption. GPT-4, released in March 2023, is OpenAI’s multimodal model that accepts text and images, with a context window up to 32K tokens…
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Fujitsu announced it has begun developing a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 physical qubits, aiming for completion in fiscal 2030, and a STAR fault-tolerant architecture to reach 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 by 2035. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical approach to a Unit Commitment power-grid optimization using…
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93% of Americans now own at least one smart home device, and 42% say most of their home gadgets are “smart.” The global smart home market is booming (projected to exceed $633 billion by 2032). Matter, the universal smart home standard, launched in late 2022; Matter 1.2 arrived in October 2023; 1.3 in May 2024;…
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Amazon Prime Air introduced its MK30 drone in late 2024, a BVLOS-capable hexagonal aircraft that carries up to 5 lbs and operates from Tolleson, Arizona, delivering eligible items within a 4-mile radius in under an hour. Alphabet’s Wing has completed over 350,000 deliveries across 10 locations on 3 continents, using hybrid fixed-wing drones with a…
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Apple plans to launch the iPhone 17 lineup in September 2025, including iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, all powered by a new A19 chip and featuring a 120 Hz ProMotion display on the base model, with rumors pointing to an ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air variant. An iPhone SE 4 is expected in…
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Hailuo AI, MiniMax’s free text-to-video app, went viral in 2025 for Cat Olympics clips, and in early summer 2025 launched Hailuo 02 with 1080p video and camera effects. PixVerse AI reached over 10 million downloads in 8 months and lets users turn a single photo into a short animated video, with GIF export options. AI…
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Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, unifying all AI R&D to accelerate AGI with a multi-billion-dollar investment reportedly over $70 billion and recruiting top talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Microsoft unveiled the AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), powered by OpenAI’s o3 model and others, achieving 80–85.5% diagnostic accuracy…
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In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in January 2009 Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. The 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum triggered a hard fork. Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, and the Ethereum Frontier network went live in July 2015, introducing smart contracts. By 2019, Walmart deployed a food traceability system using…
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At WWDC 2025, Apple opened on-device AI—a ~3-billion-parameter LLM—to third-party developers. Microsoft reported 33% year-over-year Azure growth in Q1 2025 and noted roughly 30% of its code is AI-authored. Google rolled out the Search Generative Experience with AI Mode and launched the AI Ultra Plan at $250 per month in June 2025. OpenAI reached a…
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Waymo’s robotaxis are now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides per week in U.S. cities. By 2025 AI drives an estimated 80–90% of trading volume in major stock markets. The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024, with prohibitions enforceable by February 2025, general-purpose AI rules taking effect by August 2025, and high-risk requirements…
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