On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks.…
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Bitcoin surged past $120,000 for the first time on July 14, 2025, briefly peaking at $122,571 before settling around $121,953. The Trump-branded meme coin, ticker $TRUMP, was listed on Coinbase within 24 hours of its launch, after being introduced just before Trump’s inauguration. Seagate unveiled a 36TB Exos hard drive, the largest capacity HDD, on…
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Casio’s Kikuo Ibe formed ‘Project Team Tough’ in 1981 and pursued the ‘Triple 10’ target—10 m drop, 10-bar water resistance, and 10-year battery life—which culminated in the 1983 release of the DW-5000C G-SHOCK. In 1984 Casio aired the ‘Hockey Puck’ ad featuring the DW-5200, which boosted G-SHOCK’s tough reputation and earned the model the nickname…
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China publicly unveiled the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter in 2025, with at least two J-35 prototypes seen at the SAC aircraft plant signaling low-rate production and a land-based J-35A variant. An upgraded J-15T naval fighter was revealed, featuring new indigenous engines, catapult launch capability for China’s carrier Fujian, an AESA radar, and compatibility with PL-10…
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The Galaxy Z Fold7 was unveiled on July 9, 2025 at Galaxy Unpacked in New York as Samsung’s 2025 foldable flagship, and it’s the thinnest and lightest Fold yet at 4.2 mm unfolded, 8.9 mm folded, and 215 grams. It features an 8.0-inch Dynamic AMOLED main display with a 1968×2184 resolution, 120 Hz adaptive refresh,…
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Samsung plans to unveil the Galaxy S26 series in early 2026 at an Unpacked event likely in mid-January or early February, with market availability by late January or early February following the S25’s January 22, 2025 launch. The S26 lineup is expected to drop the S26 Plus and introduce a Galaxy S26 Edge to bridge…
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6G will operate in sub-terahertz bands roughly 0.1–1 THz, enabling peak data rates up to 1 Tbps under ideal conditions, a goal highlighted by researchers like Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam. Ultra-low latency targets microseconds, specifically about 1 µs one-way, enabling real-time holographic video, tactile Internet, and near-instantaneous AR/VR. AI-native architecture: 6G will embed AI/ML at its core,…
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Samsung unveiled Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 on July 9 at Galaxy Unpacked in New York, the 7th-generation foldables with an 8-inch Fold7 display and a 200 MP camera, shipping with Android 16/One UI 8 and priced at $1,999 for the Fold7 and $899 for the Flip7 FE. Huawei launched the Pura 80 Ultra…
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3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, was detected on July 1, 2025, possibly 10 km across, and is the third known interstellar visitor after ʻOumuamua (2017) and Borisov (2019). <li NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of the Sun’s corona and solar wind from 3.8 million miles away during a December 24, 2024 flyby. <li…
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Moonshot AI released its open-source large language model “Kimi K2” in July 2025, claiming it outperforms other open models and rivals top U.S. models in coding and complex tasks. Beijing filings showed 39 new data centers in Xinjiang and Qinghai planned to deploy Nvidia H100/H200 GPUs. The plan to build a massive AI supercomputing network…
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