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1928 – 2025Jim Lovell (1928-2025)Died 7 August 2025, aged 97American astronaut of the Gemini and Apollo programmes who commanded Apollo 13, bringing a crippled spacecraft home from the Moon in 1970.
2025OpenAI releases ChatGPT-5A step change in reasoning and autonomyOpenAI released ChatGPT-5 on 7 August 2025, described as a major advance in reasoning and autonomy, amid a year of rapid progress in artificial intelligence.