Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI…
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1955: John McCarthy coined “artificial intelligence” as a term while early thinkers debated augmenting human intelligence. 1960: J.C.R. Licklider outlined “man-computer symbiosis” in which humans and computers cooperate to solve problems. 1962: Douglas Engelbart published a framework for augmenting human intellect to increase problem-solving capability. 1990: Steve Jobs described computers as a “bicycle for our…
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In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using some form of AI, up from 55% in 2023, according to Stanford’s AI Index. Stanford’s 2025 AI Index notes that the inference cost for running models at GPT‑3.5 level fell about 280× from late 2022 to late 2024, enabling cheaper deployment. The European Union’s AI Act entered into…
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In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed on a General Motors assembly line. From 1966 to 1972, Stanford Research Institute’s Shakey became the first mobile robot to reason about its actions using AI. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced the first robot arm with six electromechanical axes. In 1981, IBM introduced a robotic arm controlled…
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DALL·E 3, released in late 2023 and integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator, generated over 1 billion images in its first months. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini) launched in 2022 and has produced over 10 million images. StarryAI uses the backend Argo (powered by Stable Diffusion) and offers 1000+ stylistic presets, with a free plan of…
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, unveiled July 9, 2025, reached general availability on July 25, 2025, and stands 8.9 mm thick when folded with a 200 MP camera. Sony revived its RX1R line with the RX1R III, launched nine years after the last model and featuring a 61 MP full-frame sensor. AMD rolled out the Ryzen…
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Lebanon was the first Arab country to introduce the internet in the 1990s, and began offering DSL broadband in 2006. Ogero launched a 40-month national fiber rollout in mid-2018, with about 35% completion by the end of 2019 and a target to reach most households by 2022, slowed by the crisis. By 2025, Lebanon’s fixed…
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On July 25, 2025, Meta hired Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, as chief scientist of its new “Superintelligence Lab.” The Superintelligence Lab will consolidate Meta’s LLaMa models and long-term AGI work, operate separately from FAIR, and Zuckerberg has said it aims to build “full general intelligence” as open source. OpenAI launched…
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On July 24, 2025, the S&P 500 rose 0.07% to a fresh record close, its fourth consecutive such close. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.18% to its own all-time high on July 24, 2025. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.7% on July 24, 2025. <liAlphabet (GOOGL) posted a strong Q2 beat and announced a $10…
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