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Global Trends News 21 June 2025 - 8 July 2025

Vertical Farming and CEA Global Developments – June–July 2025 News Roundup

Vertical Farming and CEA Global Developments – June–July 2025 News Roundup

Eeki, the Indian agtech startup, secured $7 million in funding led by Sixth Sense Ventures to expand its IoT-powered aeroponic network across India. The investment supports scaling after Eeki already built 100 acres of climate‑controlled farms in arid Rajasthan and rolling out third-generation growing chambers and R&D. Planet Farms (Italy) is investing £25+ million to construct a 20,000 m² vertical…
7 July 2025
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The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Opportunities, Challenges, and Global Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 12:00 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Opportunities, Challenges, and Global Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 12:00 CET

Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI will concretely replace half of US white-collar workers. The IMF estimates up to 60% of jobs in advanced economies may be directly affected by AI. Jiahui Yu, co-creator of GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o, moved from OpenAI to Meta in a $100 million deal to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs. Nvidia accounts for 95% of the…
5 July 2025
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Global Battery Tech and Energy Storage Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Battery Tech and Energy Storage Developments (June–July 2025)

BYD field-tested solid-state EV batteries with nearly 400 Wh/kg energy density, enabling about 1,500 km ranges on a 12-minute (80%) charge, with prototypes in real cars and aims for industrial scale by 2030. Nissan plans its first solid-state EV in 2028 as part of a broader industry push including Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, CATL, and Stellantis. Kalmar (Cargotec) launched a second-generation Li-ion…
4 July 2025
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AI in July 2025: Disruption, Opportunity, and Uncertainty Across the Globe / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:00 CET

AI in July 2025: Disruption, Opportunity, and Uncertainty Across the Globe / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:00 CET

Microsoft laid off about 4% of its workforce in July 2025, citing AI as a direct replacement for roles, notably in Xbox. More than 110 major European companies, including ASML, Airbus, Siemens, SAP, and Mistral AI, signed open letters urging a two-year delay to the EU AI Act due to its complexity and costs. Meta poached top AI researchers and…
4 July 2025
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Global AI Powerhouses Clash: China’s AI Revolution Challenges U.S. Tech Dominance

Global AI Powerhouses Clash: China’s AI Revolution Challenges U.S. Tech Dominance

DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen now rival top U.S. models in capability, and DeepSeek costs about $0.55 per million tokens versus roughly $15 for OpenAI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 910 million downloads, while DeepSeek has about 125 million. HSBC and Standard Chartered began testing DeepSeek, Saudi Aramco deployed it in its main data center, and Amazon, Microsoft, and Google…
3 July 2025
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The Global AI Surge: Disruption, Opportunity, and the New World Order / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

The Global AI Surge: Disruption, Opportunity, and the New World Order / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

In 2025, Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba’s language models gained global traction, with DeepSeek reportedly priced at 1/17th the cost of leading US models and adopted by HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Saudi Aramco. US tech giants increased AI infrastructure spending in 2025, with Microsoft committing $80 billion and Meta $68 billion to data centers, chips, and cloud capacity.…
3 July 2025
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Global FinTech Developments – June–July 2025

Global FinTech Developments – June–July 2025

Revolut will integrate the European Payments Initiative’s Wero wallet into the Revolut app for customers in France, Belgium and Germany, a system launched in 2024 that already has over 40 million users and aims to add e-commerce payments by late 2025 (announced June 26, 2025). Lunar, the Nordic digital bank, announced in June 2025 partnerships with Visa-owned Pismo for card…
2 July 2025
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The Global AI Revolution: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:01 CET

The Global AI Revolution: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:01 CET

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 with traditional methods. NVIDIA shifted…
29 June 2025
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100 Quantum Computing Companies Shaping the Global Quantum Revolution (2025)

100 Quantum Computing Companies Shaping the Global Quantum Revolution (2025)

Google Quantum AI achieved quantum supremacy in 2019 with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor performing a random circuit sampling task in 200 seconds. IBM Quantum progressed from the 127-qubit Eagle milestone in 2021 to 433-qubit Osprey in 2022, with a plan for a 1,121-qubit Condor and a long-term goal of about one million physical qubits by the decade’s end. D-Wave Systems,…
21 June 2025
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Global Art Market Report 2024–2025

Global Art Market Report 2024–2025

In 2024, global art and antiques sales reached $57.5 billion, down 12% year-on-year, while transaction volume rose 3% to about 40.5 million transactions and roughly 85% of dealer sales were for works under $50,000. Two leading houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s together accounted for about 49% of global fine-art auction turnover in 2023 (roughly $7.3B of $14.9B), a dominance they maintained…
21 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • Hansa Investment Co Announces Repurchase and Cancellation of Own Shares
    January 19, 2026, 1:11 PM EST. Hansa Investment Company Limited has repurchased 35,000 ordinary shares and 90,000 non-voting 'A' shares at 272.00p per share, with all repurchased shares set for cancellation. Post-transaction, the company's share capital includes 68,200,460 ordinary voting shares and 134,808,920 non-voting 'A' shares. The move complies with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, providing shareholders updated figures for interest notifications. This share buyback reduces outstanding share count, potentially impacting the company's market valuation and shareholder structure.
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