20 Technology Updates, AI News, and Developments This Week In August

Vavoza Team
August 9, 2025
Technology

Here are the top 20 technology updates, artificial intelligence news, and developments in marketing this week in August:

This Week’s Latest Tech News and Updates

Tesla is bringing a $275 million Megapack project to California in 2026, enough to power 385,000 homes for 4 hours daily.
CRV, a venture firm, raised $750 million in funding to lead successful seed and Series A rounds in high-caliber startups.
Sam Altman introduced GPT-OSS, an open model that performs well on a high-end laptop and phone.
JetBrains launched Kineto, an AI-powered platform that lets you create web apps and websites.
Google DeepMind launched Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that generates interactive environments.
Anthropic announced that you can now upload PDFs, images, code files, and more to AI-powered apps that work with your data.
Gemini now has a Storybook feature. You can now create personalized, illustrated storybooks with narration.
Meta introduced the Open Direct AI Capture 2025 dataset to discover advanced materials that capture CO2 directly from the air.
ElevenLabs launched Eleven Music, its new AI-driven music generator.
Amazon posted that OpenAI’s weight models are now available on AWS, giving users access to them through Amazon Bedrock and Sagemaker AI.
Microsoft introduced Project Ire, an autonomous AI agent that can analyze and classify software without assistance.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1 for better agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
Black Forest Labs introduced Flux.1 Krea dev, a new text-to-image FLUX model.
WhatsApp is rolling out new tools and tips to help you spot scams and stay safe while messaging.
Claude AI can now automatically review your code for security vulnerabilities.
OpenAI officially launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet.
xAI is building a next-gen video and world model.
OpenAI now provides ChatGPT to the entire U.S. Federal workforce, to help the government work more efficiently.
Google is giving college students its most advanced AI tools for free.
Apple increased its US investment commitment to $600 billion with the new American Manufacturing Program. This will bring even more of Apple’s supply chain and manufacturing to the United States.

Turbo AI – an AI-powered learning platform that transforms audio, video, PDFs, and lectures into organized notes, flashcards, and quizzes for studying.
Viggle – an animation platform that lets users animate images into videos.
Joyland – a creative AI chatbot platform where users design and interact with AI characters.
OpenArt – a versatile AI art generator that transforms text prompts into stunning visuals with user-friendly editing tools.
Julius – an AI-powered data analyst tool that simplifies data analysis, visualization, and forecasting using natural language prompts.
Meshy – an AI-powered 3D model generator that transforms text prompts or images into high-quality 3D assets in seconds.
Civit AI – an open-source platform and community hub where users can discover, download, share, and discuss generative AI models.