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Future Tech News 17 June 2025 - 29 July 2025

Beyond ChatGPT: The Next Wave of AI Can See, Hear, and Create Worlds

Beyond ChatGPT: The Next Wave of AI Can See, Hear, and Create Worlds

OpenAI released GPT-4o in May 2024 as a natively multimodal model that accepts text, audio, image, and video input and can generate text, audio, or images, delivering GPT-4-level performance at roughly 50% lower cost and faster speed. Google DeepMind Gemini, unveiled in December 2023, ships as Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Pro, and Nano and has exceeded state-of-the-art on 30 of 32 academic tasks, including 90% on the MMLU benchmark. Meta’s AudioCraft, announced in 2023, includes MusicGen for music and AudioGen for sound effects and was open-sourced, while MovieGen, released by late 2024, can generate short videos with audio up to 16
29 July 2025
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AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI assistant, with multi-turn reasoning and deep Android integration, and by July 2025 Gemini could proactively interface with apps like Gmail and WhatsApp. Microsoft rolled out 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot in 2023, embedding GPT-powered copilots in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Windows, with 365 Copilot
27 July 2025
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Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

Starlink Coverage in 2025: Full Global Map, Reviews, and What’s Coming Next

By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300 satellites in the past year, bringing the total in orbit to over 7,000. By early 2025, Starlink was adding about 5 terabits per second of capacity per week to the constellation. Starlink typically delivers 50–200 Mbps download speeds, with the US median peak around 200
25 July 2025
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OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 Could Drop as Soon as August—Here’s What It Means for the Future of AI

GPT-5 could debut as early as August, according to Reuters, and will fuse several distinct systems rather than ship as a single monolith. The Verge reports mini and nano variants will launch alongside the flagship to offer tiered pricing and lower-latency or on-device use. Early testers say GPT-5 will be multimodal and agentic, able to mix text, images, audio and file manipulation inside task-running agents. There are rumors of a million-token context window with persistent memory baked into the core, enabling handling entire projects. Leaks indicate GPT-5 includes a safety and biosecurity focus with internal ‘BioSec Benchmarks’ to harden against
24 July 2025
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Quantum Tech Leap: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Bold Moves (July 23–24, 2025)

Quantum Tech Leap: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Bold Moves (July 23–24, 2025)

On July 23, 2025, French researchers led by Eleni Diamanti published a protocol in PRX Quantum to quantify the accuracy of quantum information transmissions with untrusted devices, enabling verification of entangled photon messages even with simulated loss and attacks while preserving quantum data. Two independent groups reported that diamond-based quantum sensors could operate more than 100 sensor qubits in parallel using NV-center diamonds, marking a ninefold increase toward scalable quantum sensing. On July 24, 2025, SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc. announced its first commercial revenue from a project with D-Wave and Verge Ag to optimize route planning for autonomous farm robots
24 July 2025
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Beyond Smartphones: AR Glasses, Brain Chips & the Race to Replace Your Phone

Beyond Smartphones: AR Glasses, Brain Chips & the Race to Replace Your Phone

In 2023 global smartphone shipments were about 1.17 billion units, with average replacement cycles exceeding 3 years. AR glasses, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), smart wearables, and ambient computing are identified as the leading contenders to replace or augment smartphones. Apple launched Vision Pro in early 2024 as a $3,499 mixed-reality headset, though its weight, battery life, and lack of apps limited mass-market appeal. IDC projects AR glasses shipments to surpass 5 million by 2027, up from under 1 million in 2023. Meta’s Reality Labs spent more than $10 billion in 2024 pursuing wearable AR glasses. On January 28, 2024, Neuralink implanted
22 July 2025
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2025 Wireless Audio Showdown: Hottest New Earbuds & Headphones (and 2026’s Next Big Things)

2025 Wireless Audio Showdown: Hottest New Earbuds & Headphones (and 2026’s Next Big Things)

Sony WH-1000XM6 over-ear headphones, launched mid-2024 and priced around $449, feature a 12-microphone adaptive ANC system, about 30 hours of battery with ANC, a foldable design, a 30mm carbon-fiber Soft Edge driver, LDAC, Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast, and Speak-To-Chat. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones introduce Bose Immersive Audio with head tracking, offer up to 24 hours of battery with Immersive Audio off (about 18 hours with it on), have a $429 MSRP, and provide customizable ANC with a microphone array. Apple AirPods Max remain a premium over-ear option at $549 and 385 g, featuring Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking
19 July 2025
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Unfolding the 2025 Foldable Phone Revolution – Top Models, Latest News & Future Trends

Unfolding the 2025 Foldable Phone Revolution – Top Models, Latest News & Future Trends

Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Fold7 at its July 2025 Unpacked event in New York, unveiling an 8.0-inch inner display, a 10% lighter chassis than the Fold6, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 3, and a starting price of $1,999. Huawei Mate X5 (China-only) features a 7.85-inch inner OLED display (120Hz), a 6.4-inch cover OLED, the Kirin 9000S 5G chip, and is priced around ¥6,799 (about $950) in China. Honor Magic V2 is 9.9 mm thick folded and weighs about 231 g, uses a dual-battery titanium frame, launched globally in early 2024, priced around £1,699 / €1,999 (about $1,800). OPPO Find
11 July 2025
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This Week in Space: Reusable Rockets, Interstellar Visitors, and the Future of Earth Observation / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 23:59 CET

This Week in Space: Reusable Rockets, Interstellar Visitors, and the Future of Earth Observation / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 23:59 CET

Themis arrives at Esrange Space Center in Sweden, Europe’s first full-scale reusable rocket stage demonstrator by ArianeGroup for ESA’s reusability roadmap, after a 3,000-kilometer journey and hop-tests expected to begin in late 2025 under the EU SALTO project. 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system, is traveling at about 60 km/s with cometary activity and will be visible until September 2025. MethaneSAT, a $100 million climate mission launched in March 2024 to map global methane emissions, has suffered a power failure and is likely not recoverable, a major setback for climate monitoring. The UK
7 July 2025
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Major Tech Developments in June 2025 and H2 2025 Outlook

Major Tech Developments in June 2025 and H2 2025 Outlook

At WWDC 2025, Apple opened on-device AI—a ~3-billion-parameter LLM—to third-party developers. Microsoft reported 33% year-over-year Azure growth in Q1 2025 and noted roughly 30% of its code is AI-authored. Google rolled out the Search Generative Experience with AI Mode and launched the AI Ultra Plan at $250 per month in June 2025. OpenAI reached a $10 billion annual revenue run-rate by June 2025 and began using Google’s TPUs alongside Azure. Nvidia reported Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year over year, with data-center sales of $39 billion and began full-scale production of Blackwell NVL72 chips in mid-2025.
28 June 2025
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Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50% by 2027. The global AI agent market is projected to grow from $5.1 billion in 2024 to $47.1 billion by 2030, a 45% CAGR. The EU AI Act, in force since 2024, bans AI with “unacceptable risk” from February 2025 and will add transparency and
27 June 2025
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Jam-Proof & Unstoppable: How Fiber-Optic Drones Are Rewiring the Future of UAVs

Jam-Proof & Unstoppable: How Fiber-Optic Drones Are Rewiring the Future of UAVs

Fiber-optic drones carry control commands and high-bandwidth video via a tether, delivering a 1 Gbps (1000Base-T) link with near-zero latency and immunity to RF jamming. Fiber communications were pioneered by Charles Kao in 1966 and proven practical by 1977, enabling high-bandwidth data transfer for drones. Russia deployed fiber-tethered kamikaze FPV drones in spring 2024 during the Ukraine conflict, achieving demonstrated ranges of 20–30 km. By late 2024, Ukraine’s 3DTech with the Khyzhak REBOFF series and Russia’s Ushkuynik group’s Knyaz Vandal were among the first operational fiber-drone models. In the 2010s, tethered systems from Elistair and Hoverfly used Kevlar-based tethers for
17 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Morgan Stanley stock price bounces after three-day slide; what to watch before Monday

Morgan Stanley stock price bounces after three-day slide; what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
Morgan Stanley shares rose 2.34% to $179.96 Friday, snapping a three-day slide as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. About 9.1 million MS shares traded hands. The rebound followed Thursday’s 2.35% drop and came amid renewed rate-cut speculation and surging AI spending. Morgan Stanley remains 6.6% below its January high.
Lam Research stock price jumps 8% as chip rally returns — what to watch next week

Lam Research stock price jumps 8% as chip rally returns — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Lam Research shares surged 8.3% to $231.01 Friday, with after-hours trading flat. The move followed a broad rally in chip stocks, pushing the PHLX semiconductor index up 5.7% as Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom advanced. Lam announced a $0.26 quarterly dividend and a senior executive exercised 53,925 shares. Investors await U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
Goldman Sachs stock jumps on Anthropic AI push — what to watch before Monday

Goldman Sachs stock jumps on Anthropic AI push — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
Goldman Sachs shares jumped 4.3% to $928.75 Friday after confirming it is working with AI startup Anthropic on internal “AI agents.” The stock’s rally helped lift the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. Delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data are due midweek and could affect rate expectations. Goldman also filed for new structured notes tied to the Russell 2000 and S&P 500.
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