Technology highlights for August 2025 included:
- Fortinet launched a regional point-of-presence (PoP) in Singapore for Lacework FortiCNAPP, its cloud-native application protection platform.
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| Source: Made by Google blog post. New in the Google Pixel family are, from left: the Pixel Buds 2a, the Pixel 10 Pro, and the Pixel Watch 4. |
- Google introduced its 10th generation of phones: the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL. Also new are the Pixel Watch 4, the Pixel Buds 2a, and accessories for the Pixel 10.
- The US government will make an US$8.9 B investment in Intel. The news follows an announcement that Softbank Group is investing in Intel to the tune of US$2 B. The US$8.9 B investment is in addition to the US$2.2 B in US government grants Intel has received to date, making for a total investment of US$11.1 B. The investment is a passive ownership, with no board representation or other governance or information rights, Intel said.
- Meta entered into a technical collaboration with Midjourney. Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta, announced on X that the two companies will "build together".
- OpenAI clamped down on a sharing feature that led to making ChatGPT conversations appearing in Google results.
The company is now providing two open source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
August also saw the company release GPT-5, which it said delivers leaps in accuracy, speed, reasoning, context recognition, structured thinking, and problem-solving. OpenAI further disclosed that it has 5 M paid users for ChatGPT's business products.
- Australia's NBN Company, which manages the country's broadband network, signed up Amazon satellite service Project Kuiper.
- NTT Data set up a new business unit focused on Microsoft Cloud.
- Perplexity offered to buy Google's Chrome browser for US$34.5 B.
- Singapore's Simba bought telco M1, while competitor StarHub took full ownership of telco MyRepublic.
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