Key Facts Telecom & Infrastructure: Major Outage Underscores Fragility A massive Verizon outage struck U.S. wireless customers over the holiday weekend, illustrating how a single glitch can knock out critical connectivity nationwide. Starting August 30, users across many states reported their mobile service suddenly dropped, with iPhones displaying “SOS only” in lieu of signal. Verizon…
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Daniel Lubetzky, founder of KIND Snacks, sold the company to Mars Incorporated in 2020 for about $5 billion. Lubetzky is a guest investor on ABC’s Shark Tank and is known for promoting purpose-driven business. He argues that a four-year college degree is not mandatory and claims universities have failed to teach critical thinking and a…
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Global Policy & Regulation: AI Under the Microscope China Enforces Sweeping AI Content Labels On September 1, China’s ambitious new “Regulations on the Identification of AI-Generated Content” came into force, marking one of the world’s strictest regimes for AI media. The rules require every AI-generated piece of content to be clearly flagged as such –…
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How Figure 02 Stacks Up Against Other Humanoids The humanoid robot space is suddenly getting crowded, with big tech and startups alike racing to build human-like machines. Figure 02 enters a field that includes Tesla’s much-publicized Optimus, Sanctuary AI’s dexterous Phoenix, Agility Robotics’ logistics-focused Digit, and Unitree’s new H1. Here’s how they compare: Outlook: Humanoids…
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Wall Street’s AI Rally Hits a Speed Bump After months of euphoria, U.S. equity markets stumbled into the weekend, led by a pullback in AI-focused stocks. On Friday, Aug. 29, the Nasdaq Composite sank about 1.2% and the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, snapping a streak of gains as traders locked in profits on this year’s…
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Key Facts (More details and expert insights on these developments below.) Consumer Tech & Gadgets Google’s Pixel 10 Debuts: Google’s latest flagship phones, the Pixel 10 series, hit store shelves this week after an official unveiling. The 10th-gen Pixels sport a refreshed design with a satin-finish aluminum frame, polished glass back, and the signature camera bar…
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Key Facts & Takeaways Market Spend by Stack Layer: From Data to Deployment The LLMOps ecosystem can be viewed in stack layers – from the infrastructure and data foundations up through model orchestration and finally evaluation/monitoring. Each layer is attracting significant investment as enterprises build out end-to-end GenAI capabilities: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Use Cases…
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Big Tech: Soaring Forecasts and Massive Investments Nvidia’s record quarter fuels optimism. On Aug. 27, chipmaker Nvidia delivered another strong earnings report, defying recent chatter about an “AI bubble.” Revenue for the latest quarter hit $46.7 billion (56% higher year-on-year), slightly topping analyst estimates abcnews.go.com. More importantly, CEO Jensen Huang struck an emphatically bullish tone on…
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AI Research & Innovation Climate modeling revolution: Scientists at the University of Washington unveiled an AI-driven climate simulator that compresses millennia of weather into hours. Dubbed DL-ESyM, the model couples two neural networks (for atmosphere and ocean) and was trained on historical data washington.edu. The result: it can accurately simulate 1,000 years of Earth’s climate…
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Nvidia launched the Jetson AGX Thor on August 25, 2025, a $3,499 developer kit marketed as a ‘humanoid robot brain’ with 128GB memory and 7.5x higher AI compute than the Orin, used by Amazon Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Medtronic and Meta. Nvidia shares rose about 1.96% on August 25, 2025 to $181.48, are up over…
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