AI-powered report generators combine ML and NLP/NLG to automatically analyze data and produce visualizations plus plain-language narratives, as exemplified by Power BI Copilot and Tableau’s AI features. Gartner predicts that by 2025 data storytelling will be the most common way analytics are consumed, with about 75% of stories auto-generated. Power BI Copilot provides a chat-based…
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In June 2025, MiniMax’s Hailuo released the Hailuo-02 model that sparked the Cat Olympics trend with viral clips of cats performing Olympic dives. The Hailuo-02 model delivers native 1080p HD video output (1920×1080) with 5–10 second clips and richer scene dynamics via prompt-based camera effects. Hailuo originated as a free research demo in 2024 and…
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PixVerse released V4 in February 2025 and V4.5 on May 15, 2025, adding cinematic camera controls and a multi-element fusion system. The mobile PixVerse app rose to #1 in the US App Store’s Photo & Video category and #4 overall within days of the V4.5 launch. In June 2025, PixVerse launched Pai I, a Chinese…
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In the UK, drone operations are regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) under the Air Navigation Order 2016, with the Drone and Model Aircraft Code acting as the ‘Highway Code’ for pilots. Most drones over 250 g or with a camera must be registered, requiring an Operator ID (about £10–£12 for 1 year) and…
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Gemini Ultra scored 90.0% on the MMLU academic exam and 59.4% on the MMMU multimodal benchmark, becoming the first AI to surpass human experts on MMLU and achieving top results on 30 of 32 benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is Google’s largest and most capable model for highly complex tasks, with final testing including external red-teaming and…
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Janitor AI was founded by Australian software developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023. In its first weeks, Janitor AI attracted over 1 million users within a week or two of launch. By September 2023, the platform had amassed around 3 million users, having hit the 1-million mark in 17 days. As of early…
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On June 28, SpaceX launched back-to-back Falcon 9s from Cape Canaveral (27 Starlink satellites) and Vandenberg (26 Starlink satellites), with boosters landing on the droneships “A Shortfall of Gravitas” and “Of Course I Still Love You.” These two Starlink launches in a single day pushed SpaceX’s active constellation to over 7,900 satellites in orbit. SpaceX…
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A large negative-polarity coronal-hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) has been rotating into Earth’s line of sight since 23 June, prompting NOAA SWPC to issue a G2 geomagnetic-storm outlook for 25–26 June UTC. Solar wind gusts exceeding 600 km/s are expected, with the planetary K-index (Kp) peaking near 5–6. Solar Cycle 25 is nearing its predicted…
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By March 2025, Lviv’s primary market apartments averaged $1,330 per square meter, the highest in Ukraine, up 1.5% year-on-year and up 66% since March 2021. In the secondary market, the average asking price for a one-bedroom resale apartment in Lviv is about $65,000, slightly higher than Kyiv’s about $63,000. As of March 2025, average rents…
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In late 2024, Ukraine’s new-build housing prices rose 15.72% year-on-year, about 3.3% after inflation. Resale prices increased 11.9% year-on-year, essentially flat in real terms. As of early 2025, western cities like Lviv at about $1,330 per square meter and Kyiv at about $1,280 per square meter lead new-build prices, while Kharkiv sits around $670 per…
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