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Business News 13 June 2025 - 23 July 2025

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Bold Policies (July 22–23, 2025)

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Bold Policies (July 22–23, 2025)

Google and OpenAI won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad by solving 5 of 6 problems with new general-purpose reasoning based on natural language understanding. OpenAI disclosed its experimental model scaled up test-time compute to think longer and in parallel, a very expensive undertaking. Google DeepMind’s Gemini Deep Think, unveiled in May, solved IMO problems within the 4.5-hour limit entirely in natural language. MIT CSAIL and Facebook AI researchers presented ICML 2025 work showing image generation with encoder-only tokens, enabling inpainting without a generator and morphing a red panda into a tiger. Alibaba’s Qwen-3 Coder, open-sourced for software development,
23 July 2025
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AI Revolution Unfolds: Big Tech Bets, Breakthroughs & Bold Policies (July 21–22, 2025)

AI Revolution Unfolds: Big Tech Bets, Breakthroughs & Bold Policies (July 21–22, 2025)

Google will invest over $25 billion in U.S. AI-related data centers and infrastructure over the next two years, plus $3 billion to modernize two Pennsylvania hydropower plants to power AI data centers, under the AI Works for America initiative. Project Stargate, originally pitched as a $500 billion effort with $100 billion upfront, is being scaled back to building a small data center by year-end (likely in Ohio) after term disputes between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. Moonvalley raised an $84 million funding round led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $154 million to develop licensed-content based, ethical AI video tools
22 July 2025
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AI in Overdrive: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Bold Policies – News Roundup (July 20–21, 2025)

AI in Overdrive: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets, and Bold Policies – News Roundup (July 20–21, 2025)

OpenAI’s experimental large language model earned a gold medal at the 2025 International Math Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 problems for 35/42 points, with OpenAI’s Alexander Wei hinting that GPT-5 will be a system of multiple specialized models orchestrated by a routing algorithm. ChatGPT introduced an autonomous ‘Agent’ mode on July 17, enabling web browsing, plugins, and online purchases, though it remains unavailable in the EU due to regulatory uncertainty. AWS unveiled ‘AgentCore’ for building autonomous AI agents, including a sandboxed code interpreter and integrated web browser, and pledged $100 million to fund ‘agentic AI’ startups via its Generative AI
21 July 2025
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Inside Samsung: How the Tech Giant is Dominating Every Industry It Touches

Inside Samsung: How the Tech Giant is Dominating Every Industry It Touches

Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company and later diversified into electronics in the late 1960s, becoming South Korea’s largest chaebol. After Lee Byung-chul’s death in 1987 the group was split among family branches, but the Lee family still controls via cross-shareholdings and Samsung Group accounts for about 20% of South Korea’s GDP. Samsung Electronics, headquartered in Suwon, is the crown jewel and one of the world’s largest tech companies, dominating memory chips and operating major display and foundry businesses. Samsung became the world’s largest mobile phone maker by units in 2012, overtaking Nokia. The
16 July 2025
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Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger where each transaction is grouped into a block cryptographically linked to the previous one, making the system tamper-resistant. Smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum are self-executing code that enforces agreements when conditions are met, operating with no downtime, censorship, or fraud. Walmart and IBM demonstrated a blockchain-based food-traceability system in which tracing a batch of mangoes took 6 days 18 hours with traditional methods but 2.2 seconds on the blockchain. In 2023, JPMorgan, HSBC, and BlackRock announced deepened involvement in blockchain projects, signaling major financial institutions’ adoption. Forecasts suggest that by 2027 as much
7 July 2025
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E-Commerce Marketplace & Infrastructure Report (June–July 2025)

E-Commerce Marketplace & Infrastructure Report (June–July 2025)

Global Marketplace Highlights (B2C & B2B) Innovations in E-Commerce Infrastructure & Technology Leading e-commerce companies made significant infrastructure and tech upgrades in mid-2025 to improve performance and scalability: Payments and Fintech Updates in E-Commerce The intersection of e-commerce and financial technology saw major developments in June–July 2025, as platforms and payment providers rolled out new options: Logistics & Fulfillment Advances Fast and efficient order fulfillment is a key battleground for e-commerce, and June–July 2025 brought a number of advances in logistics: Regulatory & Policy Developments The mid-2025 period saw significant regulatory actions that impact e-commerce platforms and digital markets globally:
29 June 2025
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Apple’s Internal Talks on Acquiring Perplexity AI: Strategy, Reactions, and Implications

Apple’s Internal Talks on Acquiring Perplexity AI: Strategy, Reactions, and Implications

Apple mergers chief Adrian Perica and services lead Eddy Cue have met with Perplexity’s team multiple times to evaluate the technology, with no formal offer or bid discussed as of June 2025. Perplexity’s latest funding round closed in 2025 and valued the company at about $14 billion, making an Apple acquisition by far the largest deal in Apple’s history, surpassing Beats’ $3 billion purchase. Apple is reportedly considering acquiring Perplexity to bolster its AI talent and tech portfolio and to potentially offer its own AI-powered search engine. Perplexity AI was co-founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas and others as an
21 June 2025
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Starting a Business in Ukraine in 2025: 10 Crucial Facts Every Entrepreneur Must Know

Starting a Business in Ukraine in 2025: 10 Crucial Facts Every Entrepreneur Must Know

<li Foreigners can own 100% of Ukrainian LLCs (TOV) and Joint-Stock Companies (JSCs), and an LLC can be formed with no minimum capital while registration commonly takes 1–3 days. <li A Ukrainian Joint-Stock Company (private or public) requires a minimum capital of 1,250 times the minimum wage (about UAH 10 million, roughly €217k) and its shares are securities regulated by the NSSMC, with formation typically 3–4 months. <li Foreign nationals may register as Private Entrepreneurs (FOP) with a Ukrainian TIN and notarized passport translation, often in-person registration, and in 2025 the uResidency program enables eligible foreigners to open a FOP
13 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.
Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026
Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.
Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026
Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.
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