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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.

The State of AI: Agentic Revolution, Healthcare Breakthroughs & Global Governance / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

The State of AI: Agentic Revolution, Healthcare Breakthroughs & Global Governance / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using Gero’s AI platform. Meta Platforms recruited Apple’s Ruoming Pang, head of foundational models, in a multi‑million‑dollar deal, while Meta maintains over $55 billion in cash reserves for AI investments. Ford Chairman Jim Farley warned that AI could eliminate up to half of white-collar jobs, a
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Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Apple scaled back the Liquid Glass UI in iOS 26 beta, significantly reducing transparency to improve readability ahead of the September 2025 final release. Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11 with record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2 (as low as $149 in the US and €199 in Spain) and other Apple gear, MacBook Air with M4, and iPad Air. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9 will debut foldables Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 (with a possible Z Fold 7 Ultra), plus One UI 8 security upgrades and the KEEP per-app data encryption architecture. Microsoft Edge with
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AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

The European Union’s AI Act will be fully enforced by mid-2026, establishing strict rules for high-risk AI applications across member states. Capgemini agreed to acquire WNS Holdings for $3.3 billion to accelerate autonomous AI for enterprise operations. At the BRICS summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged multilateral AI governance and announced plans for an independent UN AI advisory body. Ukraine’s Diia app now resolves 52% of support requests using AI, signaling rapid digital-government transformation. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated music group, surpassed 1 million Spotify streams in a month. Isomorphic Labs, Google’s DeepMind spin-off, will begin human trials for AI-developed
8 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: Windows 11 Takes Over, iPhone 17 Rumors & AI Surge – Updated July 8, 2025

Tech News Deep Dive: Windows 11 Takes Over, iPhone 17 Rumors & AI Surge – Updated July 8, 2025

Windows 11 overtakes Windows 10, reaching 50.88% of Windows devices by July 2025 according to StatCounter. Nvidia’s market capitalization tops Apple at $3.92 trillion as AI chip demand drives growth, with the Blackwell platform fueling expansion. OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 this summer, aiming for AGI and combining elements from GPT-4o and GPT-4. The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS enters our solar system in July 2025, described as the largest and brightest visitor yet. The iPhone 17 is rumored to feature a thinner, lighter design with AI-powered camera capabilities and 8K video, powered by the A19 Bionic. Nintendo Switch 2 is expected
8 July 2025
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China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China launched the Three-Body Computing Constellation, with each satellite delivering 744 TOPS and the network targeting 1 EOPS for in-orbit AI and real-time data processing. China proposes a Neptune Orbiter for 2033 powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators to study Neptune, its moon Triton, and deep-space propulsion capabilities. BeiDou-3 has been completed with 30 operational satellites providing global high-precision geolocation services for civil, commercial, and military users. Harbin Institute of Technology’s Gongda Satellite aims to deliver over 20 satellites in 2025, enabling software-defined remote sensing with data turnaround as fast as 8 minutes. Li Deren’s Eastern Eye constellation targets more than
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The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots for Sales and Marketing Success in 2025

The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots for Sales and Marketing Success in 2025

Over 80% of companies worldwide now use some form of chatbot technology. The global chatbot market is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2025. The release of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked massive interest in generative AI-powered business chatbots. Gartner predicted that by 2024, 40% of enterprise applications will have embedded conversational AI capabilities. Chatbots can convert up to 28% of website visitors into leads through real-time conversation. About 55% of companies report higher-quality leads thanks to chatbots. Chatbots can cut customer service response times by 80% for routine questions. 80% of businesses report that chatbot implementations increased sales by about
7 July 2025
Leonardo AI Unleashed: The Generative Art Powerhouse Rivaling Midjourney and DALL·E

Leonardo AI Unleashed: The Generative Art Powerhouse Rivaling Midjourney and DALL·E

Leonardo AI launched in 2022 as a Sydney-based platform for image, art, and video generation. By mid-2024 it had over 19 million users who had generated more than a billion images. Canva acquired Leonardo.ai in 2024, with all 120 Leonardo team members joining Canva. Core models include XL variants like Anime XL, Lightning XL, and Phoenix, plus community models RPG v5 and DreamShaper. AI Canvas offers Live Canvas real-time sketch-guided generation, delivering control over every pixel. Veo, the AI Video Generator, can turn an image or prompt into a short animated clip with sound. 3D Texture Generation lets users texture
7 July 2025
Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI launched its flagship search engine product on December 7, 2022, founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. Its tech uses a retrieval+generation architecture that performs live web searches and generates answers with inline citations, with Sonar, a modified version of Meta’s Llama 3, as the default model and support for GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4-turbo, Claude and other engines. The platform provides concise, sourced answers, supports multimodal inputs such as images and code, allows file uploads, and includes an Internal Knowledge Search for Pro users with up to 500 private files. It operates on a freemium model
7 July 2025
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AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

ChatGPT uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 with multi-turn dialogue and voice input/output, refined through RLHF, and offers a ChatGPT Plus plan at $20 per month. Google Bard runs on PaLM/LaMDA, can generate multiple draft responses and pull web results via Google Search, and is currently free to use in the experiment phase. Soul Machines builds digital-human avatars with AI-driven real-time facial expressions and lip-sync, with enterprise pricing custom and a consumer trial of $5.99 per month. Replika provides an AI companion with a 3D avatar and text/voice interactions, with a Pro subscription approximately $70 per year. Synthesia Studio turns text into videos
7 July 2025
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Green Energy Goldmine: How to Profit from the Renewable Revolution

Green Energy Goldmine: How to Profit from the Renewable Revolution

In 2024, global clean energy investment was projected to reach $2 trillion, nearly twice the amount spent on fossil fuels. Renewable power, grid upgrades, and storage now attract more capital than oil, gas, and coal combined. Renewable energy jobs jumped to 16.2 million in 2023, up 18% from 2022. Solar PV module prices have fallen about 85% since 2010, making solar cheaper than new coal or gas in many countries. Solar investment is projected to exceed $500 billion in 2024, more than all other power generation sources combined. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 dedicates $369 billion to
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Blockchain’s Global Social Impact Revolution: From Banking the Unbanked to Fighting Corruption

Blockchain’s Global Social Impact Revolution: From Banking the Unbanked to Fighting Corruption

1.7 billion adults lack access to formal banking, about 31% of all adults, and 55% of the unbanked are women. BitPesa, a crypto-powered remittance firm in sub-Saharan Africa, has cut transfer fees by up to 90% compared with traditional methods. In Kenya, the Red Cross and Grassroots Economics launched a blockchain-backed community currency, enabling 25 women with feature phones to create a credit and savings pool, with expansion planned to 320,000 users across Africa. In Haiti, a 2020 World Bank-backed blockchain pilot allowed 1,342 small producers to export directly, lifting mango revenues by 262% and cocoa by 348%. Sierra Leone
7 July 2025
Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger where each transaction is grouped into a block cryptographically linked to the previous one, making the system tamper-resistant. Smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum are self-executing code that enforces agreements when conditions are met, operating with no downtime, censorship, or fraud. Walmart and IBM demonstrated a blockchain-based food-traceability system in which tracing a batch of mangoes took 6 days 18 hours with traditional methods but 2.2 seconds on the blockchain. In 2023, JPMorgan, HSBC, and BlackRock announced deepened involvement in blockchain projects, signaling major financial institutions’ adoption. Forecasts suggest that by 2027 as much
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Stock Market Today

Northern Star Resources share price dips into weekend as $50m Central Tanami deal closes

Northern Star Resources share price dips into weekend as $50m Central Tanami deal closes

7 February 2026
Northern Star Resources fell 1.7% to A$26.77 Friday, extending losses as gold miners and the broader market declined. MGX Resources completed its A$50 million purchase of a 50% stake in the Central Tanami Gold Project from Northern Star. The All Ordinaries Gold index dropped 3.24%. CME Group raised COMEX gold futures margin requirements to 9% amid volatility.
PLS Group share price slips into weekend as Morgan Stanley and MUFG filings land

PLS Group share price slips into weekend as Morgan Stanley and MUFG filings land

7 February 2026
PLS Group shares closed at A$4.12 Friday, down 1.2% after a 3.7% drop Thursday. Morgan Stanley and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group disclosed increased voting power in the lithium miner, both citing changes dated Feb. 2. The moves came as lithium prices fell and Australian equities posted their sharpest drop in months. PLS reports interim results Feb. 19.
Commonwealth Bank share price near A$159 as CBA earnings, dividend week looms after ASX rout

Commonwealth Bank share price near A$159 as CBA earnings, dividend week looms after ASX rout

7 February 2026
Commonwealth Bank of Australia shares closed at A$158.91, down 0.23% Friday, as the S&P/ASX 200 fell 2.03% and nearly A$70 billion was wiped from the market. The bank reports half-year results and an interim dividend on Feb. 11, with shares going ex-dividend Feb. 18. CBA flagged a A$68 million provision linked to ASIC’s Better Banking review. The RBA raised rates to 3.85% on Feb. 3, with CBA passing on the increase from Feb. 13.
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