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The Great AI Hype Correction of 2025 When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire industry—and several world economies. Millions of people started talking to their computers, and their computers started talking back. We were enchanted, and we expected more.

**The Great AI Hype Correction of 2025**

2025 has been a year of reckoning for the tech industry. The heads of top AI companies made promises they couldn't keep, and updates to core technology are no longer step changes. The last few years have been filled with genuine "Wow" moments, but this remarkable technology is only a few years old, and in many ways it's still experimental.

Its successes come with big caveats. To be clear, we may need to readjust our expectations about what AI makes possible—and what it doesn't. Read the full story to learn more.

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**Quantum Navigation: A Secure Way to Navigate the Skies**

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, thousands of flights have been affected by a far-reaching Russian campaign of using radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system. The growing inconvenience to air traffic and risk of disaster have highlighted the vulnerability of GPS and focused attention on more secure ways for planes to navigate the gauntlet of jamming and spoofing.

One approach that's emerging from labs is quantum navigation: exploiting the quantum nature of light and atoms to build ultra-sensitive sensors that can allow vehicles to navigate independently, without depending on satellites. Read the full story.

**Today's Top 10 Stories**

1. The Trump administration has launched its US Tech Force program
2. Lawmakers are investigating how AI data centers affect electricity costs
3. Ford isn’t making a large all-electric truck after all
4. PayPal wants to become a bank in the US
5. A tech trade deal between the US and UK has been put on ice
6. Why does no one want to make the cure for dengue?
7. The majority of the world’s glaciers are forecast to disappear by 2100
8. Hollywood is split over AI
9. Corporate America is obsessed with hiring storytellers
10. The concept of hacking existed before the internet

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