Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
Eeki, the Indian agtech startup, secured $7 million in funding led by Sixth Sense Ventures to expand its IoT-powered aeroponic network across India. The investment supports scaling after Eeki already built 100 acres of climate‑controlled farms in arid Rajasthan and rolling out third-generation growing chambers and R&D. Planet Farms (Italy) is investing £25+ million to…
Read more
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…
Read more
In June 2025, GitLab released version 18 with AI-native features called GitLab Duo, adding AI-assisted code suggestions, test generation, chat-based help, a Maven virtual registry, modular CI/CD pipelines, and built-in security templates (SOC 2 and ISO 27001). In mid-2025, Atlassian unveiled AI agents named “Rovo” for Jira and Bitbucket to auto-generate tests and code, review…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
Biobeat’s cuffless vital-sign patch received FDA clearance and CE marking for hospital-grade remote monitoring, enabling cuffless measurement of blood pressure, heart rate, SpO2, and respiratory rate via PPG and AI. On June 19, PharmaSens and SiBionics announced niia™ signature, an all-in-one patch that combines a continuous glucose monitor with an insulin pump, unveiled at ADA…
Read more
