This month’s XTraw AI roundup dives into the most pivotal global AI news of August 2025 — across infrastructure, innovations, industry adoption, and ethics.
🚀 Frontier Breakthroughs – GPT-5 officially launched, DeepSeek V3.1 and Gemini 2.5 raised the competitive stakes, and OpenAI unveiled realtime voice AI.
🏗️ Mega Infrastructure Moves – Japan’s FugakuNEXT supercomputer project, Google’s $9B cloud/AI expansion in Virginia, and NVIDIA’s bullish trillion-dollar AI forecast.
🌍 Integration & Policy Shifts – AI reshaping industries from automotive to education, with new global governance talks and cross-lab safety evaluations leading the ethics conversation.
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