Transformer Titans: GPT-4, GPT-5 and OpenAI’s Model Innovations OpenAI’s AI engines are built on the transformer architecture, a breakthrough design first introduced by Google researchers in 2017 (the famous “Attention Is All You Need” paper). At its core, a transformer model processes text by considering the relationships between all words in a sentence (self-attention), allowing it to understand…
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Comprehensive Overview of Agentic AI What Is Agentic AI (and How Is It Different from Traditional AI)? Agentic AI, often described as autonomous, goal-oriented AI, refers to AI systems endowed with a form of “agency.” In practical terms, an agentic AI can make independent decisions and take actions in pursuit of an objective, without needing…
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Breakthrough: AI Finds Consciousness in ‘Unresponsive’ Patients One of the week’s most striking research breakthroughs came from Stony Brook University, where scientists unveiled an AI system called SeeMe that can detect “covert consciousness” in patients with acute brain injuries news.stonybrook.edu. In a study of 37 coma patients, SeeMe’s computer vision algorithms analyzed subtle, involuntary facial…
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Key Facts Big Tech & Product Announcements Google’s Search Gets an AI Upgrade: Google turned its famous homepage Doodle into an AI-powered learning portal this week. For three days, Google’s Doodles highlighted commonly searched school topics – quadratic equations, photosynthesis, and DNA – and clicking on each launched the new “AI Mode” in Google Search…
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Key Facts Broadcom’s $10 B Order Ignites AI Stock Rally Broadcom became the week’s biggest AI stock story after disclosing a $10 billion order for custom AI chips from an unnamed “new customer” – widely presumed to be OpenAI – and projecting above-consensus sales next quarter. Its shares soared 9.4% on Friday in response, buoying the broader…
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Market Overview: AI Momentum Rebounds After a late-summer lull, AI-related stocks roared back at week’s end. Weaker U.S. jobs data fueled expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut, sparking a rally in high-growth tech names home.saxo. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose roughly 0.8–0.9% on Thursday, with the Nasdaq touching record territory behind renewed…
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Key Facts 1. Overview – What Are AI Chips and Why Do They Matter? Artificial intelligence chips (“AI chips”) are specialized microprocessors designed specifically for AI workloads. Unlike general-purpose CPUs, AI chips (such as GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and AI-specific ASICs) are architected to perform the massively parallel, math-intensive operations that machine learning models require cset.georgetown.edu cset.georgetown.edu. This means…
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Generative AI Breakthroughs and New Tools OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch took center stage, arriving as the company’s first major model upgrade since GPT-4. Announced in August and now rolling out broadly, GPT-5 is described as OpenAI’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” openai.com. It integrates a novel “thinking” mode that allows longer reasoning when needed, giving…
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Key Facts Company (Ticker) Market Cap (Sept 2025) TTM Revenue TTM Net Income 1‑Year Stock Return NVIDIA (NVDA) $4.23 trillion investopedia.com $165.2 billion investopedia.com $86.6 billion investopedia.com +48% investopedia.com Microsoft (MSFT) $3.77 trillion investopedia.com $281.7 billion investopedia.com $101.8 billion investopedia.com +26% investopedia.com Apple (AAPL) $3.45 trillion investopedia.com $408.6 billion investopedia.com $99.3 billion investopedia.com +32% investopedia.com NVIDIA’s Stock Soars to Trillion-Dollar Heights NVIDIA’s stock market performance…
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