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From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

Amazon Prime Air introduced its MK30 drone in late 2024, a BVLOS-capable hexagonal aircraft that carries up to 5 lbs and operates from Tolleson, Arizona, delivering eligible items within a 4-mile radius in under an hour. Alphabet’s Wing has completed over 350,000 deliveries across 10 locations on 3 continents, using hybrid fixed-wing drones with a top speed of about 70 mph and a rideshare-like model with retailers including Walmart in Dallas–Fort Worth. Zipline’s Platform 2 system carries 6–8 pounds and serves a 10-mile radius (up to 24 miles out-and-back between hubs), with high-volume flight tests beginning in 2023 and first
28 July 2025
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NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over Janitor AI’s sexual content, prompting a pivot to its own JanitorLLM and a homegrown model release in Beta by late 2023. Janitor AI initially ran on OpenAI GPT-3.5/4 via API, but later developed JanitorLLM, reportedly using an RNN-based approach with hundreds of GPUs to serve millions of queries. By early 2025 the team teased a lore-driven character creation system to
28 July 2025
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Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

Grok 4 was unveiled on July 9, 2025 in a live stream on X, with Elon Musk calling it “the smartest AI in the world” and claiming it is “postgrad-level in every subject.” Grok 4 can use tools natively, perform autonomous web searches, run Python code, and access real-time information, removing the fixed knowledge cutoff. Grok 4 is multimodal and includes a voice assistant named Eve, but Musk admitted its vision and audio capabilities are still a work in progress and that it is “partially blind” on images. Training used the Colossus 200,000-GPU supercluster, with reinforcement learning at a scale
28 July 2025
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Live Satellite Views on the Internet: Platforms, Tools, and Trends

Live Satellite Views on the Internet: Platforms, Tools, and Trends

NASA Worldview offers over 1,000 imagery layers from NASA and partner satellites, with a typical 60–125 minute delay after capture. NOAA GOES weather satellites update the continental United States every 5 minutes or less and the full hemisphere every 15 minutes, enabling near real-time weather loops. Landsat 8 imagery is available on the USGS server within seconds of downlink in some cases. Sentinel-2 imagery provides new images of any location roughly every 5 days at 10-meter resolution. Planet Labs operates about 200 Dove nanosatellites that image the entire land surface daily at 3–4 meter resolution, and also runs SkySat satellites
28 July 2025
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The AI Revolution Has Only Just Begun – How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Everything

The AI Revolution Has Only Just Begun – How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Everything

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2011, IBM’s Watson beat Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In 2012, a deep learning system developed by Geoffrey Hinton and colleagues won an image-recognition contest by a large margin, kicking off the deep learning revolution. In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind. In 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeated world Go champion Lee Sedol. In 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and others. In late 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched publicly and reached 100 million users within two months. By 2023, Midjourney had over 15
28 July 2025
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Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Marketing GPT was announced in mid-2023 as part of Marketing Cloud to generate emails, segments, and journeys via natural-language prompts, grounded in Data Cloud with general availability in February 2024. Marketing GPT features include AI-driven Segment Creation, Generative Email Content Creation, Segment Intelligence & Insights, Rapid Identity Resolution, and Visual and Image Generation through a Typeface partnership. Einstein GPT launched in March 2023 as the world’s first generative AI for CRM, delivering AI-created content across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Slack, Tableau, and developers using OpenAI models with Data Cloud grounding. Salesforce’s AI Cloud launched in June
28 July 2025
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Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

UK Co-op confirmed a data breach affecting 6.5 million members, with attackers stealing an Active Directory database after a social‑engineering password reset on April 22 and deploying the DragonForce ransomware. KNP Logistics, a British transport firm founded in 1865, collapsed into administration after the Akira ransomware breached it in June 2024 via a guessed weak password, costing 730 jobs. Louis Vuitton disclosed data breaches in South Korea, Turkey, the UK, Italy, and Sweden beginning in early July 2025, linked to the ShinyHunters group, exposing names, birthdates, addresses, emails, and purchase history while stating no payment data was compromised. Allianz Life
28 July 2025
See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers a 50+ year global land-surface data record, with Landsat 8 and 9 providing 30-meter resolution imagery. Sentinel-2A and 2B image the entire Earth’s land every 5 days at 10-meter resolution (20 meters for some infrared bands). Maxar’s WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 offer 30-centimeter imagery, and the upcoming WorldView Legion aims for up to 15 revisits per day at 30 cm. Planet
28 July 2025
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From the Original iPhone to iPhone 17: The Epic Evolution of Apple’s Iconic Smartphone (2007–2025)

From the Original iPhone to iPhone 17: The Epic Evolution of Apple’s Iconic Smartphone (2007–2025)

The original iPhone, released June 29, 2007, featured a 3.5″ multitouch display, 2G EDGE data, a 2 MP camera, iPhone OS 1.0, and no App Store, selling roughly 300,000 units in its first weekend. iPhone 3G arrived July 11, 2008, adding 3G data and GPS, launching the App Store, with 8GB or 16GB storage and a $199 price on contract. iPhone 3GS released June 19, 2009, offering faster CPU and more RAM, up to 32GB storage, a 3 MP camera with video, and Voice Control. iPhone 4, launched June 24, 2010, introduced a new glass-and-metal design, Retina Display at 960×640
28 July 2025
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Amsterdam Drone Laws 2025: 8 Key Rules & Regulations You Must Know Before You Fly

Amsterdam Drone Laws 2025: 8 Key Rules & Regulations You Must Know Before You Fly

In the Netherlands, the open category limits are a maximum altitude of 120 meters, must be flown in Visual Line of Sight, with specific bystander distances (roughly 50 meters for 1–2 kg drones and 150 meters from residential/urban areas), and a maximum take-off weight of 25 kg. All drones with cameras or weighing 250 g or more must be registered with the RDW and display the operator registration number on the drone. EU Drone Certificates required: A1/A3 Basic certificate for drones over 250 g; A2 Proficiency certificate for up to 2 kg; Specific Category authorizations from ILT for higher risk
28 July 2025
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Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

From March 21, 2025 to July 10, 2025, Atco Mining pivoted to quantum computing by acquiring Staque’s Super platform, rebranding as SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc., completing a 10-for-1 share consolidation, and listing on the CSE as QBTQ with Staque owning about 37.8%. The Super platform is a cloud-based hybrid quantum-classical computing system with a natural-language, ChatGPT-like interface. It coordinates quantum annealing from D-Wave, gate-model QPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and CPUs via AI-driven workload management. Verge Ag project produced SuperQ’s first revenue in mid-2025, via a quantum-optimized robotic motion planning module on Verge’s Launch Pad, with revenue recognized on July 24, 2025.
28 July 2025
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Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

NASA’s TBIRD CubeSat achieved a 200 Gbps laser downlink in 2023, transmitting 4.8 terabytes in under five minutes. SpaceX’s Starlink had over 4,000 satellites in orbit by early 2024, with inter-satellite laser links moving about 42 petabytes per day (roughly 5.6 terabits per second). Amazon’s Project Kuiper demonstrated 100 Gbps inter-satellite laser links in late 2023 over distances of about 1,000 km, with production satellites planned to launch in 2025 and each carrying multiple laser terminals. Europe’s European Data Relay System (SpaceDataHighway) uses Tesat laser terminals on two GEO satellites, delivering up to 1.8 Gbps links and as much as
28 July 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Starlink Double Launches, Mars Mission Reveals & Australia’s Orbital Debut (July 27–28, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Starlink Double Launches, Mars Mission Reveals & Australia’s Orbital Debut (July 27–28, 2025)

SpaceX conducted back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours: July 26 from Cape Canaveral with 28 satellites and July 27 from California with 24 satellites, pushing the active Starlink constellation to 8,032. Crew-11 astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov are set to launch on July 31 aboard Dragon Endeavour to the ISS. Europe’s Vega C VV27 mission from Guiana Space Centre on July 25 placed four CO3D satellites into a 495 km sun-synchronous orbit and deployed CNES’s MicroCarb to a 650 km orbit. China unveiled Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission planned for a 2028 launch, aiming
28 July 2025
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Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write speeds using QLC flash. The FOSSiBOT F107 Pro rugged phone adds “Starlight Night Vision” capable of color photography at 0.0005 lux, powered by a 28,000 mAh battery and MIL-STD-810H durability. A GoPro Max 2 prototype leaked showing a 360° camera with
28 July 2025
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AI in Overdrive: Weekend of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Dire Warnings (July 27–28, 2025)

AI in Overdrive: Weekend of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Dire Warnings (July 27–28, 2025)

On July 27–28, 2025, the White House unveiled an AI Action Plan calling for open-source and open-weight AI models to be freely available worldwide and for regulatory hurdles to be slashed to accelerate innovation. During the July 27–28 weekend, President Trump signed executive orders to expedite AI infrastructure projects and require federally funded AI to maintain political neutrality. At WAIC in Shanghai on July 28, 2025, Premier Li Qiang announced plans for a new international AI cooperation organization to jointly develop and govern AI and urged a global governance framework with broad consensus. The Model-Chip Ecosystem Alliance linked Huawei, Biren,
28 July 2025
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AI in Business: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Every Industry

AI in Business: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Every Industry

78% of companies now use AI in at least one business function, and 83% say AI is a top strategic priority. The global AI market is about $390 billion today and is forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030. By mid-2025, 71% of companies regularly use generative AI, up from 65% six months earlier. Netflix reportedly derives about $1 billion annually from AI-driven personalized recommendations. AI-driven forecasting in operations can lift revenue by 3–4% through shorter lead times and fewer stockouts. Yahoo Japan mandated daily generative AI use for all employees in July 2025, with a goal to double productivity
28 July 2025
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AI vs. the Fakes: Inside the 2025 Race to Spot ChatGPT, Deepfakes and More

AI vs. the Fakes: Inside the 2025 Race to Spot ChatGPT, Deepfakes and More

GPTZero, created by a Princeton student in early 2023, was among the first famous AI text detectors and highlights AI-written sentences with color-coding and an “AI probability” score. OpenAI discontinued its AI-written text detector in 2023 after finding a low rate of accuracy. In a Washington Post test, Turnitin’s AI detector got over half the essays at least partly wrong and flagged 8% of a student’s original essay as AI. The European Union’s AI Act of 2024 requires AI-generated content to be disclosed, with providers mandated to watermark or clearly indicate AI origin starting in 2026. Google announced SynthID in
27 July 2025
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Ultimate AI Showdown: Best Tools, Apps, and Websites of 2025 Revealed

Ultimate AI Showdown: Best Tools, Apps, and Websites of 2025 Revealed

ChatGPT Enterprise offers unlimited, faster GPT-4 access, a 32K-token context window, and data-privacy controls for organizations. Claude 2 can ingest up to 100,000 tokens in context; Claude Pro costs $20/month; Claude API pricing is $0.008 per 1K input tokens and $0.032 per 1K output tokens. Google Gemini is a family of models (Gemini Pro and Gemini Ultra) with DeepThink-style reasoning and tools like Mariner, announced at Google I/O 2025; access is limited and Google introduced a $30/month Google AI Ultra consumer add-on in research preview. Mistral 7B released in late 2023 as a 7B-parameter open model; by 2025, plans include
27 July 2025
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AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI assistant, with multi-turn reasoning and deep Android integration, and by July 2025 Gemini could proactively interface with apps like Gmail and WhatsApp. Microsoft rolled out 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot in 2023, embedding GPT-powered copilots in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Windows, with 365 Copilot
27 July 2025
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Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

In 2016, Microsoft Research launched Project Malmo, an open-source AI experimentation platform built on top of Minecraft. Around NeurIPS 2019, MineRL released an OpenAI Gym interface for Minecraft with a large dataset of human gameplay and the flagship ‘Obtain Diamond’ task. In 2022, OpenAI trained a Video PreTraining (VPT) model on 70,000 hours of YouTube Minecraft videos, enabling the agent to craft wooden and stone tools and a diamond pickaxe after 24,000 actions. Baritone is an open-source Minecraft bot with advanced pathfinding, using an A-like search and reportedly 30× faster path calculation than its predecessor. In early 2025, Ryan Boulds
27 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

8 February 2026
AMD shares jumped 8.28% to $208.44 Friday, rebounding after steep losses earlier in the week. Chip stocks rallied as investors bet on continued AI data center spending by major tech firms. Nvidia rose 7.8%, Broadcom gained 7.1%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed up 5.7%. Markets now await macroeconomic data and Nvidia’s late-February results.
Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

Intel stock price jumps to $50: China CPU delays and SambaNova funding set up week ahead

8 February 2026
Intel shares rose 4.9% to $50.59 Friday, tracking a 5.7% jump in the PHLX semiconductor index as investors bet on AI-driven data-center spending. Reuters reported Intel and AMD warned Chinese customers of tighter server CPU supply, pushing Intel’s China prices up over 10%. Intel expects supply to improve in Q2. After the bell, Reuters said Intel plans to invest about $100 million in AI chip startup SambaNova Systems.
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