Sony raised its annual profit forecast 4% to ¥1.33 trillion ($9 billion) on tariff relief and strong PlayStation demand, with tariff impact now expected at ¥70 billion, down from ¥100 billion. Sony’s PlayStation division sold 2.5 million PS5 consoles in Q1, up 4%, helping gaming profits double on software and network services. SMIC reported Q2…
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on Aug 8, 2025, the first major upgrade to ChatGPT in over two years, with 700 million weekly users and reinforced safety guardrails. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 on Aug 5, 2025, improving software engineering accuracy to 74.5% on its coding benchmark (from 72.5%) and making the model available via API, GitHub…
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Honor Watch 5, launched in late 2024, features a square Apple Watch–like design, a 1.85-inch AMOLED display, up to 1000 nits brightness, and a typical battery life of 14–15 days. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, unveiled in July 2024, comes in 40mm and 44mm sizes with aluminum cases, sapphire crystal, MIL-STD-810H durability, 5ATM/IP68 water resistance, and…
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GPT-5 launched in August 2025 with a 400,000-token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, test-time compute, and access for about 700 million ChatGPT users worldwide. GPT-5 comes in three tiers—GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano—sharing the 400K context and multimodal input while offering different performance and cost profiles. The GPT-5 API pricing is $1.25 per million…
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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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Vision Pro uses dual micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, roughly near-4K per eye. Quest 3 resolves 2064×2208 per eye (about 9.3 million pixels combined), Quest Pro 1800×1920 per eye (≈6.9M), and XR Elite 1920×1920 per eye (≈7.4M), while Vision Pro emphasizes high pixel density with a ~90–100° horizontal field of view. Processing power varies…
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Pixel Watch 4 will be offered in 41mm and 45mm cases, features an Actua 360 OLED display peaking at 3,000 nits, and is roughly 50% brighter than Pixel Watch 3’s 2,000 nits. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 is expected to last around 30 hours with Always-On Display, while the 45mm version reaches about 40 hours,…
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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 August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025, delivering extremely large context windows (hundreds of thousands of tokens) and adding Claude Code for…
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