This Week's Tech Stories That Actually Matter

July 21-27: The week AI got wild, Intel got desperate, and Starlink face-planted

GPT-5 is Coming (And It's Insane)

OpenAI just dropped the mic: GPT-5 launches in August. Not "sometime this year" or "when we feel like it" - August!

The specs are cracked. We're talking a million-token context window (GPT-4 maxes at 128k), unified multimodal everything, and reasoning that actually reasons. Three flavors: full-fat GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and GPT-5 Nano for the API crowd.

Translation? Your current AI workflow is about to look like a flip phone.

Meta Poaches ChatGPT's Co-Creator

Plot twist of the year: Shengjia Zhao, the guy who literally helped build ChatGPT, just jumped ship to Meta. He's now Chief Scientist of their new "Superintelligence Lab" (subtle name, Mark).

The kicker? Meta's reportedly throwing $80-100 million signing bonuses at elite researchers. OpenAI's research chief called it "like someone breaking into our home."

When the talent war gets this expensive, you know AGI is closer than we think.

Intel's Death Spiral Continues

25,000 jobs. Gone. That's 15% of Intel's workforce getting the axe as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan tries to save a sinking ship.

Six straight quarters of losses. A $2.9 billion quarterly crater. Projects in Germany and Poland? Canceled. Costa Rica operations? Dead.

"There are no more blank checks," Tan told analysts. Translation: We're broke and Nvidia ate our lunch.

Starlink Had a Very Bad Day

SpaceX's satellite internet empire went dark for 2.5 hours Thursday. Not just slow—completely offline. Over 60,000 outage reports crashed Downdetector.

The culprit? A botched software upgrade that overloaded their ground systems. Elon apologized (rare), but the timing was brutal—one day after T-Mobile launched their Starlink partnership.

Nothing says "cutting-edge space internet" like a good old-fashioned system crash.

Trump's AI Power Play

The administration dropped their AI Action Plan this week. Three executive orders, one clear message: America first, regulations last.

Key moves: Export more AI tech, fast-track data center permits, and kill "woke AI" in government. It's the complete opposite of Biden's safety-first approach.

Whether you love it or hate it, this is the new game. Buckle up.

That's your week. GPT-5 incoming, talent wars raging, and tech titans stumbling. What a time to be alive…

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