Here are the top 20 technology news, updates, AI developments, and trending tools this week in August 2025:
This Week’s Latest Technology and AI News
- Grok Imagine is now available to all users on Android and IOS.
- Anthropic AI joined the Pledge to America’s Youth to advance AI education and build AI and cybersecurity skills for the next generation.
- Microsoft plans to have a steerable virtual scientist with self-adaptive reasoning to transform scientific discovery.
- Google is testing its new AI-powered Google Finance, which will provide real-time data and news, advanced charting tools, and more.
- Nvidia announced new Omniverse libraries, Cosmos AI models, and AI computing infrastructure to enhance robotics development.
- Meta landed a $29 billion AI data center deal.
- Genspark AI can now record meeting notes on the Apple Watch.
- Elon Musk will allegedly take legal action against Apple over favoring OpenAI.
- Google rolled out Preferred Sources – a feature that allows you to customize your search results.
- Google Ads is rolling out an asset optimization upgrade to maximize ad placements and improve viewer experience.
- Claude AI can now reference past chats, allowing you to pick up where you left off.
- Gemini Live now connects with Google apps, giving you real-time feedback if you share your screen or camera.
- Vals AI reported that Grok 4 is the clear SOTA winner, beating other top AI models on the IOI.
- Threads now has over 400 million active monthly users.
- NeoLogic raised $10 million in funding to develop energy-efficient AI data center processors.
- Continua, founded by a former Google engineer, raised $8m in funding to further develop AI chatbots.
- Match Group is paying $14 million to the FTC for deceptive advertising.
- Anthropic announced that Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context. This enables users to process entire codebases with over 75,000 lines of code.
- Pocket Entertainment has hit over 200 million worldwide listeners.
- Perplexity launched OpenTable on the Web, iOS, and voice assistants, allowing users to book reservations straight from the Perplexity app.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- Gauth – AI-powered homework helper that uses your camera or uploaded content to solve STEM problems step-by-step and gives optional live-tutor support.
- Abacus AI – an AI workspace for chat, code, content creation, and automation.
- Artlist – a subscription-based platform offering royalty-free music, sound effects, video footage, templates, and AI tools.
- Workato – an automation and integration platform that uses AI to connect applications, automate workflows, and optimize business processes.
- Lindy – a platform that allows businesses to create, manage, and share AI agents to automate various tasks in sales, support, and other operations.
- MagicLight – a free AI art generator that can transform text into images and videos.
- Chai – a conversational AI platform that allows users to create and interact with their own AI chatbots.
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