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Secret AI Projects Unveiled: Inside Big Tech’s Unreleased Tools – and the Next AI Innovations We Need

Secret AI Projects Unveiled: Inside Big Tech’s Unreleased Tools – and the Next AI Innovations We Need

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is planned as a unified generalist AI that combines advanced reasoning with image and audio understanding, with a debut target in summer 2025. Google’s Stitch, unveiled at Google I/O 2025, is an AI design assistant that can generate high-fidelity UI designs and front-end code from text descriptions or image prompts, though it remains a prototype. Google’s Gemini Project includes an Agent Mode that will autonomously pursue user goals, such as booking a trip, in experimental form. Unveiled in mid-2025, AlphaGenome is Google’s DNA-sequence model capable of predicting gene regulation effects and is in a scientist preview with broader
10 July 2025
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MarTech Industry News & Trends (June–July 2025)

MarTech Industry News & Trends (June–July 2025)

The number of MarTech solutions grew to 15,384 in 2025, up 9% from 14,106 in 2024 per Chiefmartec. MarTech has achieved roughly 100× growth since 2011, with AI-native startups flourishing as legacy products consolidate or exit. Only 25% of marketers report well-integrated tech stacks while 96% are satisfied with their tools, highlighting ongoing data integration challenges. Snowflake and Acxiom announced a strategic partnership to build an AI-powered marketing data environment using first‑party data at scale. Salesforce released Agentforce 3, adding 200+ pre-built actions, a new Command Center, updated architecture, and Slack Channels for AI-assisted collaboration. Adobe expanded GenStudio with Firefly-powered
10 July 2025
Renewable Revolution 2025: Game-Changing Innovations in Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Bioenergy & Hydropower

Renewable Revolution 2025: Game-Changing Innovations in Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Bioenergy & Hydropower

Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells achieved about 29% efficiency on commercial-size cells, exceeding traditional silicon panels. Bifacial solar panels boost energy yields by up to 30% in reflective environments such as snow or sand. Floating solar farms can raise output by roughly 15% due to water cooling of the panels. Covering 10% of the world’s reservoirs with floating solar could yield about 20 TW of capacity, roughly 20 times today’s global solar capacity. Offshore wind turbines now reach 15–18 MW per turbine, enabling major capacity gains in deep waters. Floating offshore wind pilots have been launched by Norway, France, and Japan,
10 July 2025
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Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, YouTube rolled out a wave of features around VidCon, including new audience segments “New,” “Casual,” and “Regular” viewers. The YouTube Community Tab became available to all channels and now lets fans post from mobile. YouTube Shorts gained shopping stickers globally with tests showing 40% higher product click-through in the U.S. YouTube reports viewers spend 80 million hours per day watching shopping-related videos. YouTube expanded auto-sync video editing for Shorts to automatically match music beats. YouTube introduced a Fan Leaderboard for live chats globally and added animated donation GIFs (US-only). YouTube launched Player for Education, an ad-free embeds
10 July 2025
Brain‑Melting Discovery: Why July 9’s Record‑Breaking Earth Spin Could Crash Your Clock—and What Experts Are Doing About It

Brain‑Melting Discovery: Why July 9’s Record‑Breaking Earth Spin Could Crash Your Clock—and What Experts Are Doing About It

On July 9, 2025, Earth’s length of day was predicted to be −1.30 ms, the fastest day of 2025 and close to 2024’s all‑time −1.66 ms. A 1 millisecond timing error can yield GPS position errors of hundreds of meters and disrupt high‑frequency trading algorithms. Leading explanations for the spin‑up include an unusual Moon alignment, deep core fluid motions, and mass redistribution from melting ice. Future ultra‑short days are forecast for July 22 and August 5, 2025. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service may introduce the first negative leap second as early as 2029. More than 450 cesium
10 July 2025
July 10 2025’s ‘Buck Moon’ Will Be the Farthest‑From‑the‑Sun, Low‑Riding Full Moon of the Decade—Here’s the Exact Time, Best Viewing Tricks & Pro Photo Hacks You Need

July 10 2025’s ‘Buck Moon’ Will Be the Farthest‑From‑the‑Sun, Low‑Riding Full Moon of the Decade—Here’s the Exact Time, Best Viewing Tricks & Pro Photo Hacks You Need

The Buck Moon peaks on 10 July 2025 at 4:37 p.m. EDT (20:37 UTC). Earth reached aphelion on 4 July 2025, making this the farthest full Moon from the Sun in 2025. During the 18.6-year major lunar standstill, the Moon hugs the southern horizon, producing the lowest July full Moon path since 2006. The Moon is not a supermoon, as it occurs near apogee on 5 July 2025 at a distance of 404,400 km. July’s full Moon is traditionally named Buck Moon (Algonquin) and Thunder Moon. In New York, Moonrise is at 8:53 p.m. and sunset at 8:28 p.m., a
10 July 2025
Zero-Knowledge Proof and Confidential Computing – June–July 2025 Report

Zero-Knowledge Proof and Confidential Computing – June–July 2025 Report

June 17–18, 2025, the Confidential Computing Summit featured OPAQUE Systems unveiling Confidential Agents, a platform that runs AI agents inside TEEs for secure RAG workflows with encrypted data, policy enforcement, and auditability. On the same dates, OPAQUE joined the AGNTCY open‑source consortium led by Cisco’s Outshift and LangChain to build a trust infrastructure for the Internet of Agents. In June 2025, Anjuna Security added a top‑5 global bank to its clientele, with three of the world’s 10 largest banks using its Seaglass enclaves and Northstar clean‑room across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and on‑prem. June 30, 2025 saw Keyring Network with
10 July 2025
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Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

Grok 4 was unveiled by Elon Musk’s xAI in a late-night livestream, pitched as the “smartest AI in the world” and “PhD-level” across disciplines. Grok 4 features enhanced reasoning and logic, multimodal understanding of text and images, and meme-grasping capabilities. A dedicated Grok 4 Code developer model supports programming tasks, with Musk claiming you can paste an entire source file for Grok 4 to fix. Grok 4 retains real-time internet access via xAI’s DeepSearch on X, allowing up-to-date answers on current events. Grok 4 is designed to provide direct, “truth-seeking” responses with less sanitization and potential humor, while moderation evolves.
10 July 2025
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AI SEO Revolution: 7 Surprising Ways Search is Changing in 2025 and Beyond

AI SEO Revolution: 7 Surprising Ways Search is Changing in 2025 and Beyond

AI accelerates content creation and optimization with tools like Jasper and OpenAI’s GPT-4, producing first drafts from outlines in minutes. By late 2024, around 15–20% of Google searches included AI-generated overview answers, changing how traffic is captured. In 2025, ChatGPT’s website became the fifth-most-visited site globally, with about 5 billion visits per month. Despite AI growth, 49% of consumers still click traditional search results for deeper information. In 2025, 51% of marketers are using AI tools to optimize content for search engines. The Great Decoupling: organic CTR can drop by up to 4X when AI summaries appear in search results.
10 July 2025
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Inside the AI Revolution: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and What Comes Next / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

Inside the AI Revolution: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and What Comes Next / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

Nvidia became the first company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization, up from under $600 billion in 2023, a roughly 15x gain over five years driven by demand for AI GPUs. The Harvard AI Index 2025 finds generative AI most impacts entry-level and high-skill jobs, with enterprise adoption rising from 33% to 71% and entry-level productivity up 21–40%. Microsoft laid off 15,000 workers as AI tools saved over $500 million in call centers and generated 35% of new product code. OpenAI completed a $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io Products; the first product is rumored to be a
10 July 2025
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Space in Crisis and Glory: NASA Shakeup, Starlink Expansion & Buck Moon Spectacle! / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

Space in Crisis and Glory: NASA Shakeup, Starlink Expansion & Buck Moon Spectacle! / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

The Buck Moon on July 10, 2025 will reach peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. UTC and appear as a micromoon due to its distance, coinciding with Earth’s aphelion and a Major Lunar Standstill. President Trump appointed Sean Duffy as interim NASA Administrator in July 2025, replacing Jared Isaacman amid a backdrop of budget cuts that could eliminate more than 2,000 senior NASA jobs, including 279 at Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA’s DART mission altered Dimorphos’ orbit and ejected more than 100 boulders, adding momentum almost as large as the spacecraft itself. China’s Chang’e-6 mission returned Moon far-side rocks, including 2.8-billion-year-old
10 July 2025
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Tech Just Leveled Up: Samsung’s Foldables, AI Browsers, and the Smartwatch Takeover / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:00 CET

Tech Just Leveled Up: Samsung’s Foldables, AI Browsers, and the Smartwatch Takeover / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:00 CET

Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, with Fold 7 folded thickness of 8.9 mm and Flip 7’s 4.1-inch external cover display, a 200 MP main camera, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 16 GB RAM, IP68, seven years of Android updates, and Fold 7 dropping S Pen support. Both devices feature deep Google Gemini AI integration powering Circle to Search, Gemini Live for screen and camera assistance, and native app enhancements. The Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic are the first Samsung wearables to include Google Gemini AI, with 3000-nit sapphire displays, antioxidant measurement, and
10 July 2025
Major Developments in Incident Response – June–July 2025

Major Developments in Incident Response – June–July 2025

On June 5, 2025, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) detected unauthorized activity on its IT network, shut down large portions of its systems, activated its incident-response plan, and caused nationwide disruptions to food deliveries. Qantas disclosed on June 30, 2025, a cyber breach in a third-party call center platform exposing personal data of about 6 million customers, contained the incident the same day, and launched a dedicated hotline while tightening monitoring. On June 12, 2025, Aflac revealed that attackers breached its network via social engineering, stealing customers’ sensitive claims data including Social Security numbers and health information, with ransomware not
10 July 2025
Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Hardware News – June–July 2025

Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Hardware News – June–July 2025

Azure announced in June 2025 that SGX-based DCsv2 confidential VM instances will be retired by June 30, 2026, with SGX capacity restrictions starting July 1, 2025 and a migration to DCasv5/ECasv5 or DCasv6/ECasv6 confidential VMs using AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX. Intel’s 5th-Gen Xeon Emerald Rapids processors with Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are debuting in cloud services, with Microsoft Azure launching a preview of TDX-powered VMs in April 2025. Linux kernel 6.16, released mid-2025, merged host support for Intel TDX, signaling readiness for broad deployment. Google Cloud has generally available AMD SEV-SNP-based VMs on 4th Gen EPYC Genoa servers, enabling
10 July 2025
Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

On June 10, 2025, Cisco Live announced Universal ZTNA and AI-Era Security, including Universal Zero Trust Network Access that authenticates users, devices and AI agents, plus Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Splunk integrations. At Zenith Live on June 3, 2025, Zscaler unveiled the Zero Trust Everywhere Suite with Zero Trust Branch, Zero Trust Gateway for Cloud Workloads, AI-driven microsegmentation, a B2B Zero Trust Exchange, and disposable jumpboxes for contractors. DefensX announced its Premium+ Browser ZTNA on June 8, 2025, turning any modern browser into an enterprise-grade secure access platform with phishing-resistant authentication, identity protection, web threat isolation and data loss prevention.
10 July 2025
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Internet Access in Israel

Internet Access in Israel

In early 2024, 92.1% of Israelis—about 8.51 million people—were online, according to DataReportal. Israel has about 10.40 million mobile subscriptions, yielding 112.5% mobile penetration due to multi-SIM usage. Roughly 92.9% of Israelis live in urban areas, with 7.1% rural. Median speeds are high: fixed broadband 167.4 Mbps and mobile 40.2 Mbps (early 2024), and Speedtest ranked Israel around 16th worldwide for fixed broadband with a median of 226.6 Mbps in January 2025. Fiber deployment reached about 45% of homes by early 2024, up from about 35% in 2023, with Bezeq and Partner (Unlimited FTTH) as the main fiber players. HOT
10 July 2025
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Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025 and updates UK GDPR with predefined “recognised legitimate interests”, higher PECR fines up to £17.5M or 4% of global turnover, and new Smart Data portability and digital identity frameworks. The European Commission extended the UK’s EU adequacy decision by six months to 27 December 2025 to reassess data protection adequacy. EU policy in May 2025 proposed GDPR simplification for SMEs, exempting organizations with fewer than 750 employees from processing records unless high-risk processing occurs. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) entered into force in July
10 July 2025
Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Intesi Group of Italy and iGrant of Sweden launched the EUDI Wallet Business Wallet, a cross-border platform that combines qualified electronic signatures with Qualified Electronic Attribute Attestations for legally binding transactions. Google and Germany’s Sparkasse announced a first-of-its-kind online age-verification service that uses Google Wallet’s Credential Manager API with zero-knowledge cryptography to enable one-click age checks without exposing personal data. authID and Prove joined to embed authID’s biometric selfie verification and the PrivacyKey tokenization feature into Prove’s onboarding platform to detect synthetic identities and deepfake impersonations. Evo Tech released Evolution 1.0, a modular AI-agent platform that analyzes images, video, audio,
10 July 2025
Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong’s drone regime is governed by the Small Unmanned Aircraft Order (Cap. 448G) under the Civil Aviation Ordinance, which took effect on June 1, 2022 and became fully enforced on December 1, 2022. The framework uses a risk-based classification with Category A1 for drones up to 250 g, Category A2 for 250 g to 7 kg, and Category B for over 7 kg up to 25 kg. Category A1 is exempt from registration and most licensing, while Category A2 requires drone and remote-pilot registration, and Category B requires CAD permission and advanced training. Registration is via the CAD Electronic
10 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

NASA deployed the WB-57 and UAVSAR-equipped Gulfstream III to support Texas flood recovery, delivering high-resolution real-time data despite persistent cloud cover, with over 110 fatalities and more than 170 missing. The European Launcher Challenge finalists are Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and Orbex, each eligible for contracts up to €169 million. Airbus Defence and Space España will build two PAZ-2 radar satellites for Hisdesat, delivering sub-25 cm SAR imagery with AI analytics, and first in-service expected by 2031, with 65% of work performed by Spanish firms. India approved Starlink to operate under IN-SPACe for five years, allowing
10 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Nu stock jumps to $17.40 as traders eye Nubank’s next catalyst

Nu stock jumps to $17.40 as traders eye Nubank’s next catalyst

7 February 2026
Nu Holdings shares climbed 3.5% to $17.40 Friday, reversing Thursday’s loss, as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. Nu recently received conditional approval from U.S. regulators to form a national bank, but still needs further sign-offs before launching. The company manages $38.8 billion in deposits and reports earnings Feb. 25.
MARA stock jumps 22% into weekend as bitcoin whipsaws; Monday risk test looms

MARA stock jumps 22% into weekend as bitcoin whipsaws; Monday risk test looms

7 February 2026
MARA shares jumped 22.4% to $8.24 Friday, trading higher after hours, as the company moved $87 million in bitcoin to major custodians. About 82.4 million MARA shares changed hands. Bitcoin hovered near $68,928 Saturday. A MARA filing showed its general counsel had shares withheld for taxes on vested stock units, not an open market sale.
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