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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, AI, and Consumer Devices / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, AI, and Consumer Devices / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Nvidia becomes the world’s first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization in July 2025, reflecting AI hardware leadership and accounting for over 7% of the S&P 500. Samsung unveils Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7, and Z Flip7 FE at Galaxy Unpacked 2025, with Fold7 at 4.4 mm unfolded, an 8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, a 200 MP main camera, and prices starting at $1,999 for Fold7 and $899 for Flip7 FE. OpenAI plans to launch an AI-powered Chromium-based web browser with integrated AI agents that could disrupt Google Chrome and its ad revenue. Johns Hopkins’ SRT-H
10 July 2025
The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed drug discovery, with human trials imminent. The European Union’s AI Act bans manipulative algorithms, social scoring, and predictive policing to protect fundamental rights. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot sparked global outrage for antisemitic and Nazi-themed content, triggering bans in Turkey and investigations in Poland and the
10 July 2025
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ChatGPT-5: The Next ‘Omnimodel’ AI Revolution is Coming – Here’s What We Know

ChatGPT-5: The Next ‘Omnimodel’ AI Revolution is Coming – Here’s What We Know

GPT-5 will be a unified model that merges OpenAI’s GPT series with its experimental o-series reasoning models, so ChatGPT-5 will automatically know when to think deeply or to use tools without users selecting a mode. GPT-5 will be OpenAI’s first chain-of-thought AI, enabling step-by-step internal reasoning and integrating the o3 reasoning model to improve math, coding, and multi-step analysis. GPT-5 will support multimodal inputs and outputs, including text, voice, and images, with OpenAI hinting at eventual video capabilities and a canvas feature for image generation and editing. GPT-5 will include integrated deep search and autonomous web research with citations, via
9 July 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

In February 2025, xAI unveiled Grok 3, claiming it runs on “10x” more computing power than Grok 2 and was trained on an expanded dataset including court filings. Grok 4 is slated for release shortly after July 4, 2025 and is expected to include a specialized coding module to write software like a human developer. Grok 3 introduced a Think mode and a faster Grok 3 Mini, using dedicated Reasoning models to step through problems, with xAI claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s o3 on some math and science benchmarks. Grok features DeepSearch, an integrated real-time web search that pulls in updates
9 July 2025
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Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial. Starlink operates in more than 50 countries globally and had over 3 million customers in nearly 100 countries by late 2024, reaching remote regions from the Arctic to the Amazon. Starlink’s second‑generation satellites (V2) can handle roughly 80–100 Gbps per satellite, with a goal to
9 July 2025
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Future Combat Air Systems: The Global Race for Sixth-Generation Fighters

Future Combat Air Systems: The Global Race for Sixth-Generation Fighters

FCAS/SCAF aims to field a “system of systems” including a Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) with remote carrier drones and a combat cloud, targeting 2040 in-service and costs exceeding €100 billion. The United States’ NGAD is a “family of systems” with a manned core fighter plus loyal wingman drones, potentially costing around $300 million per fighter and planned to enter service around 2030–2032. The UK–Italy–Japan Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) was announced in December 2022 and aims for a 2035 operational fighter, with a crewed demonstrator by 2027–2028, a tri-national engine program, and data-link networks delivering 10,000x radar data throughput. Japan’s F-X
9 July 2025
Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

SpaceX operates over 7,000 satellites and posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 2024, with a target valuation of $400 billion to $4 trillion in upcoming funding rounds. Starlink aims for 22,000 satellites by 2030 and could capture 15% of global communications spending. Ovzon secured a SEK 72 million order from Sweden’s FMV for mobile satellite terminals, with deliveries starting in Q3 2025. MEASAT received IN-SPACe approval to provide satellite services in India, expanding access to over 600 TV channels and 11 million DTH customers. EarthDaily Analytics launched the first of its ten-satellite EarthDaily Constellation, delivering daily AI-ready, scientifically calibrated global
9 July 2025
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The State of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and the Road Ahead (July 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and the Road Ahead (July 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieved 85.5% diagnostic accuracy on NEJM benchmarks, outperforming doctors. Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI could replace up to 50% of US office workers, with accountants and cashiers most at risk. Turkey banned Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot after antisemitic outputs, marking the country’s first AI ban. The European Union advanced the AI Act with no delays, enforcing phased rules through 2027 as the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation. UNESCO warns AI could consume up to 4% of global electricity by 2030, while design changes could cut energy use by up to 90% through model
9 July 2025
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Tech Today: July 9, 2025 – Samsung Unpacked, Apple Leadership, AI Talent Wars, Gmail’s Inbox Revolution, and More / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Tech Today: July 9, 2025 – Samsung Unpacked, Apple Leadership, AI Talent Wars, Gmail’s Inbox Revolution, and More / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook. Gmail rolled out the Manage Subscriptions feature on the web, with Android support arriving on July 14 and iOS on July 21. OpenAI hired four top engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta to bolster its Stargate AI infrastructure. NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark mini supercomputer
9 July 2025
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Ultimate DJI Enterprise Drone Comparison (2025): Matrice vs Mavic 3 Enterprise & Thermal Models

The Matrice 350 RTK (M350) is the flagship successor to the Matrice 300 RTK, offering up to 55 minutes of flight time with no payload, up to 20 km O3 Enterprise range, IP55 weather resistance, and a top speed around 23 m/s. The Matrice 30T blends portability with a built-in multi-sensor payload—12 MP wide, 48 MP tele with 5× optical and 200× digital zoom—and a radiometric thermal camera (640×512), enabling about 41 minutes of flight and IP55 protection with hot-swap TB30 batteries. The Matrice 4 Series comprises the M4E and M4T with a triple-camera gimbal (48 MP wide, 3× tele,
9 July 2025
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Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

On 5 July 2025 at 09:07 UT, amateur Mario Rana from Hampton, Virginia recorded a two-frame white flare on Saturn’s western limb lasting under 1 second, with PVOL releasing a frame showing a stellate spot just inside the edge. PVOL issued an international all-points bulletin within hours, asking observers to upload raw video stacks for independent processing; as of this report, no second detection had surfaced. The verification drive includes data mining and crowd-sourcing, with PVOL providing a template FITS header to standardize submissions. Amateur networks such as Cloudy Nights and regional Facebook groups are screening terabytes of July 5
9 July 2025
Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google, Lenovo, and OnePlus. OnePlus Nord 5 and Nord CE5 smartphones launch with the Nord 5 featuring Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, a 6.83-inch 144Hz OLED display, up to 12GB RAM, and a 5200mAh battery; the Nord CE5 uses the MediaTek Dimensity 8350. NVIDIA’s AI hardware leadership
9 July 2025
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Space in July 2025: Budget Battles, Scientific Breakthroughs, and the New Space Race / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

Space in July 2025: Budget Battles, Scientific Breakthroughs, and the New Space Race / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

The FY2026 NASA budget proposal would cut overall funding by 24.3%, with science funding slashed by nearly 47%. Congress moved to restore nearly $10 billion for NASA’s human spaceflight programs including Artemis, SLS, Orion, and the Gateway lunar station, while transferring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston and upgrading the Stennis Space Center. SpaceX accounted for 83% of U.S. launches in 2024 and marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch, while Starlink now operates more than 7,900 active satellites. The TraCSS space traffic coordination system faces an 84% budget cut, with hundreds of companies urging Congress to restore funding. <li NASA's Perseverance
9 July 2025
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AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent wars where engineers command salaries in the tens of millions per year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns millions of jobs—especially entry-level roles—could be automated within five years, as UK entry-level postings drop 32% since late 2022. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated indie band, amassed over
9 July 2025
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The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time
8 July 2025
How to Build Your Own AI: The Complete 2025 Guide to Costs, Tools, and Making Money

How to Build Your Own AI: The Complete 2025 Guide to Costs, Tools, and Making Money

OpenAI’s GPT-4, released in 2023, is a proprietary multimodal model (text and images) available via API or Azure and handles a few thousand input tokens by default. Anthropic’s Claude 2 offers a 100,000-token context window and is accessible via API, with prompting costs roughly half of GPT-4 per token. Meta’s LLaMA 2, released in 2023, comes in 7B, 13B, and 70B parameter sizes; weights are downloadable and commercial use is allowed under a permissive license with minor restrictions. Mistral 7B, a 7.3B parameter model released in 2023, is Apache 2.0 licensed and can run on a single GPU, reportedly outperforming
8 July 2025
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Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

iPhone 17 Shockers: Ultra‑Thin “Air,” 120 Hz for Everyone & 24 MP Selfies — Here’s the 2‑Minute Cheat Sheet

The iPhone 17 lineup is expected to launch around September 8–10, 2025, and will include four models: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, with the old Plus line removed. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be ultra-thin at 5–6 mm with a 6.6-inch OLED display. The base iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro are expected to have about 6.3-inch displays, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be about 6.9 inches. The 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are said to feature a new horizontal camera bar on the back, while the
8 July 2025
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

<li ATLAS imaged the interstellar candidate on 1 July 2025, with precovery back to 14 June 2025, and it was designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and later 3I/ATLAS as the third confirmed interstellar object after Oumuamua and Borisov. <li A JPL orbital solution yields eccentricity e = 6.1 ± 0.1 and hyperbolic excess velocity V∞ ≈ 58 km/s, indicating an extrasolar origin from Galactic longitude about 5° toward the Galactic Center. <li The object’s nucleus is estimated at 9–20 km in diameter, with a developing coma and tail already visible, including a compact coma at about 4.5 AU from the Sun.
8 July 2025
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Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup will include four models — iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air (Slim), iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max — replacing the previous Plus variant. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be an ultra-thin 5–6 mm device with a ~6.5–6.6-inch OLED display and an estimated weight of about 145 g. All iPhone 17 models are expected to use a 120 Hz ProMotion LTPO OLED display, with sizes around 6.3 inches for the base, ~6.6 inches for the Air, and ~6.9 inches for the Pro Max. The iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air will use the
8 July 2025
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Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9 launch occurred with the Starlink 10-25 mission, deploying 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites and marking booster B1067’s 29th flight. 3I/ATLAS, discovered by NASA’s ATLAS survey in July 2025 in Chile, is about 20 km wide and travels up to 68 km/s, making it the third
8 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

7 February 2026
Linde plc shares fell 2.5% to $448.24 Friday after reporting Q4 sales up 6% to $8.76 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.20. The company guided 2026 adjusted EPS to $17.40–$17.90, below analyst consensus. JPMorgan downgraded the stock, while Morgan Stanley and UBS raised price targets. Linde repurchased $1.4 billion in shares in Q4 and returned $7.4 billion to shareholders in 2025.
GE Vernova stock closes up nearly 6% — what to watch before Monday’s trade

GE Vernova stock closes up nearly 6% — what to watch before Monday’s trade

7 February 2026
GE Vernova shares jumped 5.6% to $779.35 Friday as Wall Street rallied and the company reported 1.1 GW of U.S. wind repower orders for 2025. The company also closed its $5.3 billion purchase of the remaining Prolec GE stake and completed a $2.6 billion senior notes offering. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.
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