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   Igor Babuschkin announced his departure from xAI to launch an AI safety venture. Igor Babuschkin formerly served as; a member of the technical staff at OpenAI from November 2020 to March 2022, a senior staff research engineer at DeepMind from April 2022 to February 2023 and then as co-founder at xAI from May 2023 to August 2025. xAI was incorporated on March 9, 2023 by Elon Musk and was publicly announced on July 12, 2023. Elon Musk recruited Igor Babuschkin, who co-founded xAI and served as the company's Chief Engineer. Igor Babuschkin was responsible for building most of the foundational tools used to launch and manage training jobs. He also oversaw the engineering aspect of the company like infrastructure, product and applied AI project. The team built the Memphis Supercluster in 120 days, first in history. Igor Babuschkin in an X post, reflected on the shared vision between him and Elon Musk. How the journey started from zero with the recruitment of like minded enginee...

On July 5, John Collision, co-founder of Stripe, posted a request via his X account and tagging Sundar Pichai saying: Could we get Ctrl-click on Google calendar to duplicate events, like many native calendar application have. On August 13, Sundar Pichai replied to the post, acknowledged the request and announced that the feature is now live on the web version of Google's calendar. This new feature is currently available only on the web version of Google's calendar. With this feature, users can hold the Ctrl key (on Windows) and drag an event to instantly create a copy

Apple is set to open its manufacturing academy in Detroit on August 19. This program aims at training and supporting Americans businesses, innovators, and manufacturers. The initiative is part of Apple's pledge to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. The program will be offered for free and Apple have partnered with Michigan State University to host businesses across the country with Apple experts.

OpenAI is introducing Study Mode on Chatgpt—a new way to learn using chatgpt. This innovation aims to work problems step by step instead of getting quick answer. This feature will be available to signed users and is coming soon in few weeks on the Chatgpt Edu. ChatGPT's Study Mode will be useful for students, assisting them in homework and learning new topics.

Meta announced that Shengjia Zhao — a former OpenAI researchers and co-creators of ChatGPT — has been appointed Chief scientist of its Superintelligence Lab In a thread posted by Mark Zuckerberg, he expressed his excitement about having Shengjia Zhao taking the role as Chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Lab. Shengjia will set the research agenda and scientific direction for the lab while working directly with Mark and Alex

Google DeepMind model result was officially graded and certified by IMO The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical competition organized for high school students. It was first held in Romania in 1959 with seven participating countries. Today, the IMO has grown to include over 100 participating countries. Each countries are represented by six elite individuals who compete to solve six difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Last year, with the merging of Alphaproof and AlphaGeometry 2, Google DeepMind's system was able to solve four out of six problems at the IMO with an awarded score of 28 points. This year, Google Gemini Deepthink model earned 35 points for solving five of six IMO problems correctly. Google's Gemini Deepthink model was awarded gold-medal performance. After the 2025 IMO, an OpenAI model attempted the IMO 2025 problem. While complying with the rules applicable to human contestants, OpenAI model solved five ...

Andy Byron, The CEO at Astronomer, has resigned after being placed on leave for a viral video of him on 17 July at a Coldplay concert in Boston, which shows him hugging Kristin Cabet, the Chief Human Resources Officer at Astronomer. Astronomer is a platform co-founded in 2018 by Greg Neiheisel, Pete De Joy, Ry Walker and Tim Brunk to enable data teams to seamlessly build, run and observe all their data products within a unified DataOps platform. In a LinkedIn post, Astronomer says that their leaders are expected the highest standard in both conduct and accountability. As such, the Board of Directors initiated a formal investigation. While Andy Byron was placed on leave, Pete De Joy who is the the co-founder and Chief Product Officer is serving as interim CEO  Andy Byron tendered his resignation which was accepted by the board as standard of expectations required of him was not met

Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Meta, stated in a LinkedIn post that Meta will not be signing the European Commission's code of practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI). He wrote, "European is heading down the wrong path on AI", stating that the code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI act. The General-Purpose AI code of practice helps industry comply with AI act legal obligations on safety, transparency and copyright of General-Purpose AI model. This code was released on July 10, 2025.

Cognition has recently signed an agreement to acquire Windsurf. The agreement entails the acquisition of Windsurf IP, product, trademark and strong business brand. Following Google's hiring of Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chan and other senior employees, Cognition has acquired the remaining assets of Windsurf  Cognition, makers of Devin was co-founded in November, 2023 by CEO Scott Wu and Steven Hao. Cognition will be integrating Devin with Windsurf technologies for developers. Developers will be enabled to plan task in an IDE powered by Devin codebase. In a LinkedIn post, Jeff Wang, Windsurf Head of Business stated that the last 72 hours have been the wildest rollercoaster ride of his career and he is beyond thrilled to share that Windsurf is joining forces with Cognition, the legendary team behind Devin, to reinvent the future of software development.  He added that Windsurf has built the leading in-IDE agentic experience, and Cognition has pioneered the lea...

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta expand its search for top AI talent with his latest acquisition of PlayAI . PlayAI was officially acquired by Meta on July 11, 2025 PlayAI, legally PlayHT Inc., is a startup platform that uses AI to generate human- sounding voices for all forms of conversation. It was co-founder on June 27, 2022 by Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed.

W indsurf, formerly Codeium is a platform that provides AI coding assistant and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developers. It was co-founder in June 2021 by Varun Mohan (CEO)  and Douglas Chan. On May 6, 2025, OpenAI has agreed to acquire windsurf for approximately $3 billion. However, on Friday July 11, 2025, the deal talk was officially called off. Google moves quickly to hire Varun Mohan—Windsurf CEO and few others of its top AI researchers to join Google DeepMind team. Windsurf co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chan in a statement to Business Insider expressed their excitement to joining Google DeepMind team with some others of Windsurf team. Windsurf remains independent with Google not acquiring any stake but only receives non-exclusive license to certain Windsurf technologies. Jeff Wang who have been the Head of Business since May, 2023, has been appointed interim CEO of Windsurf while Graham Moreno who have been the vice-president, worldwide Go-To-Market (GTM...

  X formerly Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. It was acquired by Elon Musk in October 2022 for $44 Billion and rebranded to X on July 23, 2023. Musk served as CEO until June 6, 2023, when Linda Yaccarino succeeded as the CEO of X. On July 9, 2025, Yaccarino via her X account announced her resignation from X after 2 years of incredible service.  In her post, she express gratitude to Elon Musk for trusting her with the responsibility of protecting free speech and transforming X into the "Everything App." The reasons for her resignation remains unknown. A day before her resignation, Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI and integrated on the X platform, raised alarm on antisemtic and pro-Hitler remarks in response to user prompt.

  Apple announced the transition of Jeff Williams' role as Chief Operating Officer to Sabih Khan. Jeff Williams holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina state university and an MBA from Duck university. He joined Apple Inc in 1998. He was named vice president of operation in 2004 and was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Apple on December 17, 2015. Jeff Williams would be retiring in late 2025 after 27 years of service to Apple with plans to spend more time with family and friends beginning from next year. Sabih Khan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and mechanical engineering from Tufts university and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer polytechnic institute. He joined Apple in 1995 and was named Senior vice president of operations on 27 June, 2019. During this role, Khan was in charge of Apple's global supply chain and he reports to Jeff Williams.

  Pangu is a large learning language model featuring 1.085 trillion parameters, developed by Huawei.It was first announced during the Huawei Developer Conference on July 7, 2023. The model was developed within Huawei Mindspore 5 - an open-source deep learning training interface. Alibaba's Qwen on the other hand, is a family of large language model developed by Alibaba Cloud in 2023. On July 4, 2025, Pangu Pro MoE (Mixture of Experts) model was alleged to be similar with Alibaba Qwen- 2.5 model in a GitHub post by an unidentified member of HonestAGI (a newly created group). This claim was based on "model fingerprinting" technology. According to the post, it claimed that Huawei's Pangu Pro MoE (Mixture of Experts) model shows Extraordinary correlation (0.927) with Qwen- 2.5 14B. It suggests that that the Pangu Pro MoE (Mixture of Experts) was derived through upcycling rather than training from the scratch. However, Huawei Noah's Ark research lab, the team behind Pan...

  Trump stated on Friday July 4, aboard Air Force One that he would be speaking to Chinese President Xi by next week - possibly Monday or Tuesday, to conclude on Tiktok deal. Tiktok is a social media and online video platform owned by Chinese Internet Company Bytedance . During President Biden's administration, on April 24, 2024, Biden signed into law, the Protecting Americas from Foreign Adversary Controlled Application Act. The act gave Bytedance (Tiktok parent company ) a nine month deadline until January 19, 2025, to either divest Tiktok or face ban from operating in the U.S. Bytedance appealed before the supreme Court, but the Protecting Americas from Foreign Adversary Controlled Application Act was upheld. However, Trump who won the November, 2024 presidential election requested for an extension in December , 2024, ahead of his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025, in order to give his incoming administration time to deliberate on the ma...

The 10th Edition of HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 is scheduled to take place from September 18 to 20 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center and Shanghai Expo Center. HUAWEI CONNECT 2025 takes the theme 'All Intelligence' and will focus on three dimension: strategy, technology and ecosystem. The event will also feature the unveiling of Huawei all-new digital and intelligent infrastructure products and development tools. Themes of Past Editions of HUAWEI CONNECT  Edition Year Theme 1st Edition 2016 Shape the Cloud 2nd Edition 2017 Grow with the Cloud 3rd Edition 2018 Activate Intelligence 4th Edition 2019 Advanced Intelligence 5th Edition 2020 New Value Together 6th Edition 2021 Dive into Digital 7th Edition 2022 Unle...

  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., a Chinese company founded by Ren Zhengfei in September 1987 is one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. A U.S. judge has ruled that Huawei Technologies, must face criminal charges in a case alleging it stole technology and engaged in racketeering, wire and bank fraud and other crimes. Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday, July 1 declined Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., bid to dismiss 13 alleged charges in a 16-count federal indictment against the company  In January, 2019, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced criminal charges against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. According to the announcement, Federal Crimes were alleged against the company, its affiliate in Iran, and a subsidiary in the United States. The charges included theft of intellectual property of an American company, T-Mobile's "Tappy" robot, in an attempt to undermine the free and fair global m...

  Deepseek, a subsidiary of High-flyers, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded by Liang Wenfeng in July 2023. It is controlled by Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd. Meike Kamp, Berlin Commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information have reported that Deepseek processes users' personal data, including all text prompt, chat histories and uploaded files and transfers them to Chinese processors and stores it on servers in China. Meike Kamp described this act to be unlawful as German user's data in China needs to be protected same as the European Union. As at June 27, 2025, reports have been delivered to the largest app platform, Google and Apple for reviews and decisions to consider a ban on Deepseek in Germany. OTHER RELEVANT CASES AS AT 2025 In January, the Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante, took an investigation into Deepseek on how it collect, process and store data.  In February, the Dutch Data Prot...

  Recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on a quest to hire top AI talent. As part of his vision to power his Superintelligence lab, top AI researchers from OpenAI have been hired.  Earlier this week, Meta recruited four OpenAI researchers: Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, Hongyu Ren.