{"id":4958,"date":"2025-08-27T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:32:46","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-august-24th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-august-24th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 August 24th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/google\/2025\/08\/youtube-secretly-tested-ai-video-enhancement-without-notifying-creators\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft hosts emergency press conference after protesters \u2018storm a building\u2019 &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/microsoft\/766429\/microsoft-emergency-press-conference-palestine-protest\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/microsoft-introduces-a-pair-of-in-house-ai-models-193003900.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dolby announces Dolby Vision 2, expanding picture quality &#8216;beyond HDR&#8217; &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/home\/home-theater\/dolby-announces-dolby-vision-2-expanding-picture-quality-beyond-hdr-123019504.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors &#8211; The New York Times | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/05\/technology\/anthropic-settlement-copyright-ai.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/772848\/google-ad-tech-eu-antitrust-fine\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trump Threatens Trade Actions After EU Fines Google Over Ads &#8211; Bloomberg | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-05\/google-fined-almost-3-billion-by-eu-for-abusing-adtech-power\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google finally details Gemini usage limits &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/773496\/google-gemini-usage-limits\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An \u2018iPhone Air,\u2019 price hikes and AI: What to watch at Apple\u2019s biggest event of the year &#8211; CNN Business | <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/07\/tech\/iphone-air-price-ai-apple-event\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udce2 Turn images into videos with Veo 3: Now available in Google Vids\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jG31dMulimg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators &#8211; Ars Technica | Link Microsoft hosts emergency press conference after protesters \u2018storm a building\u2019 &#8211; The Verge | Link Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models &#8211; Engadget | Link Dolby announces Dolby Vision 2, expanding picture quality &#8216;beyond HDR&#8217; &#8211; Engadget | Link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}