Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) to pursue AGI and superintelligence, led by Alexandr Wang, recruiting top talent from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic with leadership compensation reportedly up to $300 million over four years and unifying Llama models under MSL. Microsoft unveils MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), achieving 85.5% accuracy in diagnosing complex medical cases—four…
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In mid-June 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated that an anticipated open-source AI model would be delayed to later in the summer, not June. On June 30, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s Meta Superintelligence Labs, naming Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and Nat Friedman as a partner, with Meta hiring 11 engineers from Anthropic,…
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In 2025 Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), aiming to reach artificial superintelligence, backed by a $29 billion investment in AI data centers and a 49% stake in Scale AI, even as the Llama 4 model underperformed. Apple is reportedly considering replacing its in-house…
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Nvidia insiders sold over $1 billion of company stock in the past year, with more than $500 million sold this month as the share price hit record highs, and CEO Jensen Huang sold stock for the first time since late 2023. Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization during the surge,…
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AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Risks, and the Road Ahead Table of Contents Introduction: The AI Tipping Point AI in Industry: From Automation to Transformation Manufacturing, Logistics, and Maintenance Healthcare and Biotechnology Finance, Insurance, and Investment Retail, Real Estate, and Marketing AI in Public Sector and Society Government, Administration, and Urban Planning Education and Research Law,…
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The EU’s AI Act, agreed in late 2023, is being rolled out in phases with August 2, 2025 as the deadline for major obligations on providers of advanced general-purpose AI models. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson urged the EU to pause the AI Act’s implementation at the European Council meeting in late June 2025. European…
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In June 2024, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution approved the National Artificial Intelligence Document, a comprehensive policy blueprint for AI development. By July 2024, Iran established the National AI Organization as an independent body under the President’s supervision to steer the AI ecosystem and aim to be among the world’s top 10 AI…
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Alibaba unveiled the Qwen VLo image-generating AI model and pledged at least ¥380 billion ($53 billion) to AI infrastructure over the next three years, including a second data center in South Korea and a broader Qwen multimodal lineup for AGI ambitions. Anthropic’s Project Vend put the Claude-based agent Claudius in charge of a vending machine,…
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The 4th Hong Kong InnoTech Expo drew over 58,000 visitors and featured 120 AI-powered student teams, with winners set to represent Hong Kong at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. Mayo Clinic’s StateViewer AI tool detects nine types of dementia from a single FDG-PET brain scan with 88% accuracy, doubling speed and tripling accuracy compared…
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Meta hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher, and acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing a 1.1 GW nuclear power supply for AI data centers starting in 2027. Amazon’s stock has nearly doubled in the past three years as AWS commands about 30% of the global cloud…
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