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SpaceX Launch Frenzy, Big Tech Showdowns, and Tesla’s Robotaxi Gambit – Tech News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

SpaceX Launch Frenzy, Big Tech Showdowns, and Tesla’s Robotaxi Gambit – Tech News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Key Facts Google Dodges Breakup, But Faces $425 Million Privacy Verdict Alphabet’s Google scored a major legal victory in its landmark U.S. antitrust case, avoiding a forced breakup of its empire. On Sept 2, Judge Amit Mehta ruled against splitting up Google’s core businesses, allowing it to retain control of Android, Chrome, Search and more ts2.tech. The judge opted for lighter remedies (like curbing certain exclusive deals) instead of the “scorched-earth” approach of dismantling the company. Markets rejoiced – Alphabet shares rocketed 9%, adding over $200 billion in value ts2.tech. Analysts called it a pragmatic outcome. “This removes a significant legal overhang and
5 September 2025
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Chip Crackdowns, Crypto Surprises, and Global Tech Shocks – Tech News Roundup (Aug 31–Sept 1, 2025)

Chip Crackdowns, Crypto Surprises, and Global Tech Shocks – Tech News Roundup (Aug 31–Sept 1, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Technology (Hardware, Software & Gadgets) wired.com wired.comMeta’s latest bet on wearable tech is paying off unexpectedly. Smart Glasses Resurgence: The social media giant’s Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses – built with eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica – have become a surprise hit, selling over 2 million units since their late-2023 debut wired.com. Sales tripled in Q2 2025 alone, contributing to a 22% surge in Meta’s revenue wired.com. The device, which discreetly pairs a camera and audio in stylish frames, suggests growing consumer appetite for “ambient” gadgets beyond the smartphone. “The real interface of the future is what’s sitting on your nose,”
1 September 2025
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Tech Titans Unleash Shocking Gadgets, Cyber Showdowns and Space Feats – August 27–28, 2025 Tech Roundup

Tech Titans Unleash Shocking Gadgets, Cyber Showdowns and Space Feats – August 27–28, 2025 Tech Roundup

Consumer Electronics: Big Batteries and Flagship Phones Smartphone makers are pushing limits. Realme unveiled a teaser for an Aug 27 event: a concept phone with a 15,000mAh battery – far above today’s norm gadgets360.com. The company claims this battery (using its ultra-high silicon-content anode) can power 50 hours of video playback (over five days’ use) gadgets360.com, despite the device’s slim profile. This follows Realme’s earlier 10,000mAh prototype. At the same time, OnePlus is reportedly skipping “14” and naming its next flagship OnePlus 15, set for late 2025 (India rollout early 2026) business-standard.com. Rumors cite a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, up
28 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

You Won’t Believe What AI Did in August 2025. AI News Roundup for August 2025.

Major Research Breakthroughs in AI Major research breakthroughs in August underscored AI’s growing capabilities across reasoning, science, and biotechnology. Key advances this month included: Developments in Generative AI (Language, Image & Music) August brought a flurry of developments in generative AI, from powerful new language models to creative tools in image, video, and music generation: AI Adoption Across Industries AI’s integration into real-world industries accelerated in August, with notable examples across government, healthcare, finance, and more: Government Regulations and Policy Actions Governments worldwide took notable actions in August to regulate and guide the fast-growing AI sector, balancing innovation with oversight:
20 August 2025
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AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

MIT and Duke University researchers used AI to design tougher plastics, identifying iron-based ferrocene additives and mechanophores that make polymer networks absorb stress, with results published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used generative AI to create OpenCRISPR-1, the first AI-designed CRISPR enzyme, which edited human genome cells and was trained on 500 million sequences, with the work published in Nature and open-sourced. OpenAI unveiled two open-weight LLMs with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters that can run on a single GPU or a laptop, with open weights for fine-tuning and availability on AWS Bedrock. Thomson Reuters launched CoCounsel Legal,
6 August 2025
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Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write speeds using QLC flash. The FOSSiBOT F107 Pro rugged phone adds “Starlight Night Vision” capable of color photography at 0.0005 lux, powered by a 28,000 mAh battery and MIL-STD-810H durability. A GoPro Max 2 prototype leaked showing a 360° camera with
28 July 2025
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Global Tech Roundup: Space Triumphs, Cyber Breaches & Gadget Surprises Rock July 22–23, 2025

Global Tech Roundup: Space Triumphs, Cyber Breaches & Gadget Surprises Rock July 22–23, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2: Borderlands 4 will launch on the Switch 2 on October 3, 2025, according to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, with the Switch version running about 30fps to preserve feature parity. Google Pixel 10 Pro: Google released a Pixel 10 Pro teaser ahead of its August 21, 2025 launch, showing an evolutionary design and promising upgrades including improved camera capabilities and Android 16 integration. Chip tariffs affect TI: Texas Instruments warned new U.S. tariffs could dent demand, issuing a softer sales forecast and sending its stock down about 12%. TSMC profit with caution: TSMC posted a 60% year-on-year surge
23 July 2025
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 – Samsung’s Ultra-Thin Foldable Redefines the Game

Shocking Smartphone Leaps, Space Milestones & EV Breakthroughs – Tech News Roundup (July 15, 2025)

Consumer Electronics: Foldables, Phones & Wearables Reinvented Software and Apps: Social Wars & Platform Shake-ups Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Threats, Breaches & Warnings Space and Aerospace: Launch Landmarks and Lunar Prep Renewable Energy and Green Tech: Clean Power Records & Climate Tech Internet Infrastructure and Telecommunications: Next-Gen Networks & Global Connectivity Sources: reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com techradar.com techcrunch.com techcrunch.com bleepingcomputer.com bleepingcomputer.com therecord.media therecord.media therecord.media therecord.media spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com rcrwireless.com rcrwireless.com
15 July 2025
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IoT Platforms and Devices Roundup – June–July 2025

IoT Platforms and Devices Roundup – June–July 2025

In late June 2025, Xiaomi unveiled the YU7 EV, its first electric SUV, alongside the Smart Band 10 fitness tracker and prototype Xiaomi AI smart glasses. Samsara announced the Samsara Wearable at its Beyond conference on June 24, 2025, a rugged safety device with over one year of battery life that detects falls and alerts supervisors via the cloud platform. STMicroelectronics released two new IoT MCU families in June–July 2025, the STM32WBA6 with multi-protocol 2.4 GHz radio and the ultra-low-power STM32U3 for coin-cell or harvest-based devices, both with hardware crypto and secure key storage to support CRA. Emnify launched Consumer
1 July 2025
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