2025 closed the books on a surprising number of products, platforms, and experiments — from the calendar-driven death of an operating system that powered millions of PCs to the quiet collapse of trend-chasing AI gadgets and the wholesale reallocation of hardware supply toward data‑center...
2025 reads like a long, elegiac footnote in tech history: a year when platforms and products that once shaped the consumer and enterprise digital landscape were retired, repurposed, or quietly shuttered. From the calendar‑hard expiration of Windows 10 to the retirement of OpenAI’s flagship model...
OpenAI’s rollout of GPT‑5 has reshaped ChatGPT’s product landscape in ways that were predictable on paper but messy in practice: a unified, faster reasoning engine meant to simplify model choice accidentally erased a model many users loved, prompting an outcry that forced OpenAI to partially...
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