Global telecom equipment revenues declined about 11% in 2024 and are forecast to be essentially flat in 2025. Huawei remains the leading telecom equipment supplier with about 31% global market share, ahead of Nokia at 14% and Ericsson at 13%. Ericsson’s Mobility Report (June 2025) projects 5G subscriptions reaching about 2.9 billion by the end…
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Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees (about 4% of its global workforce) across Xbox/Microsoft Gaming, King, Bethesda, Rare, Undead Labs, Turn 10 Studios, as part of a shift toward AI and cost optimization. The layoffs were accompanied by cancellations and studio closures, including Perfect Dark reboot cancellation and The Initiative closure, Everwild scrapped, and ZeniMax…
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Meta launched its Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), with reports of offers up to $300 million over four years to recruit talent from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Meta’s talent tactics as distasteful and OpenAI countered by offering staff a one-week…
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SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch with the deployment of 27 Starlink satellites and the 29th booster reuse. MTG-S1, Europe’s first geostationary hyperspectral infrared atmospheric sounder, launched July 1, 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 alongside the Sentinel-4 instrument for hourly air-quality data over Europe and North Africa. MethaneSAT, an $88 million climate satellite…
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Nvidia (NVDA) became a $1 trillion company in 2023, commands roughly 80% of the AI chip market, and sells the H100 and H200 data-center GPUs powering modern AI models. The S&P 500’s Magnificent Seven—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta—account for about 35% of the index’s market cap and have delivered over 70% of…
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In the United States, data scientists average about $156,790 in total pay annually, with New York around $160,000 and San Francisco topping $178,000. Switzerland leads Europe with data scientists averaging about $143,360 per year. OpenAI compensation data shows a median total of about $875,000, with entry-level around $238,000 and senior levels around $1.34 million, and…
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A viral AI deepfake song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of streams before Universal Music Group demanded its removal. In June 2024, the RIAA and the Big Three labels (UMG, Sony, Warner) sued Suno and Udio for alleged en masse copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000…
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Since a 2015 amendment to the Air Code, Russia classifies all drones as aircraft under civil aviation law, with oversight by the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia). Drones are regulated by use category: hobbyist, commercial, and government, with separate licensing and registration for each. Drones over 150 grams and up to 30 kg must be…
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Kuwait had approximately 4.29 million internet users, about 99% of the population, as of early 2024 per DataReportal. The country had around 7.89 million cellular mobile connections in 2024, equating to 182% of the population due to multiple SIM usage. Zain Kuwait launched 5G in 2019, becoming the first to roll out 5G among the…
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The global AI market is valued at $391 billion in 2025, with a projected CAGR of 35.9% and an expected reach of $1.81 trillion by 2030. AI is now a business foundation, with over 6% of global startups and nearly 10% of unicorns AI-powered. 83% of companies say AI is a top priority, and daily…
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