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The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails

August 19, 2025
OpenAI’s GPT-5 has arrived, bringing faster performance, more dependable reasoning and stronger tool use. It joins Claude Opus 4.1 and other frontier models in signaling a rapidly advancing cognitive frontier. While artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains in the future, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has described this era as “10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10…
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Sony dominates EISA Awards with Lens of the Year

August 19, 2025
Sony’s winning streak at the 2025 EISA Awards didn’t stop with the cameras. After taking Camera of the Year for the Sony A1 II, it also claimed Lens of the Year with the FE 50–150mm f/2 GM – a fast telephoto zoom designed to deliver prime-like sharpness and creamy bokeh across its entire focal range. Whether you’re covering a football match or isolating a subject in a busy street scene…
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DefenseNews

Could this wargame shape the future of the Space Force?

August 19, 2025
Lessons learned from the Space Force’s Schriever Wargame, which will wrap up Thursday, could shape the service’s future capabilities. The two-week event, held at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, gathered more than 350 participants from U.S. industry and allied…
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What to know about Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump

August 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine. Months of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting haven’t made headway, but the stakes have risen since Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. After that summit, Trump…
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now adds killer upgrades: RTX 5080, DIY game installs

August 19, 2025
Nvidia’s GeForce Now service is offering its Ultimate tier subscribers an enormous upgrade today: GeForce RTX 5080 servers, cinematic visual upgrades, and a new “install to play” service that will “download” new games directly to the cloud, making them instantly ready to play. Nvidia is leaving the price of the GeForce Now Ultimate tier unchanged at $19.99 per month, and $99.99 for six…
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