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Global Satellite Communications Boom: Major Launches, Mergers & Breakthroughs (June–July 2025)

Global Satellite Communications Boom: Major Launches, Mergers & Breakthroughs (June–July 2025)

SpaceX’s Starlink network surpassed 7,000 satellites in orbit by June 2025 after a record double launch on June 28, deploying dozens of new satellites from Florida and California within 13 hours. Starlink generated $11.8 billion in revenue in 2024, overtaking its launch business for the first time. In June 2025 India granted Starlink a license to operate, signaling a major entry into a market projected at $1.9 billion by 2030. In May 2025 South Korea approved Starlink and OneWeb for service, with regulators clearing both to start selling LEO internet plans once final certifications are completed. France invested €1.35 billion
7 July 2025
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Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

In June 2025 Generac launched ecobee by Generac Smart Thermostat Enhanced with built-in Home Energy Management, promising up to 26% savings on annual heating and cooling and direct coordination with Generac generators and solar batteries. In June 2025 Arlo rolled out Advanced Audio Detection for Arlo Secure Plus, enabling cameras and doorbells to recognize sounds such as a person screaming, glass breaking, gunshots, dog barks, and smoke alarms with instant video alerts. The Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch, introduced in late spring 2025, uses fingerprint biometric unlocking and disarms the alarm, and integrates via Z-Wave with ADT’s security system. Samsung’s
6 July 2025
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Starlink Satellite Internet FAQ

Space-Age WiFi: How Starlink, HughesNet, and Viasat Are Beaming Broadband from Space

Starlink uses a low Earth orbit constellation with about 7,600 satellites in orbit as of mid-2025 (aiming for 12,000+), delivering 50–250 Mbps downloads with 20–50 ms latency and no hard data caps on standard plans (heavy users may be throttled during congestion). HughesNet operates GEO satellites (EchoStar Jupiter fleet, including Jupiter 3) offering up to 50–100 Mbps on newer plans, around 600 ms latency, soft data caps with throttling, and pricing roughly $50–$100 per month with equipment around $300 or a $15/month lease; Fusion LTE hybrid is available. Viasat uses ViaSat-2/3 GEO satellites to provide 100–150 Mbps and, on newer
5 July 2025
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Smart Grid and Energy Management Systems – Latest Developments (June–July 2025)

Smart Grid and Energy Management Systems – Latest Developments (June–July 2025)

Honeywell partnered with Verizon to integrate 5G connectivity into smart meters, achieving data speeds up to 10 Gbps for near real-time consumption data and improved demand forecasting. Eaton unveiled an AI-based wildfire prevention system called HiZ Protect that detects high-impedance power line faults with 95% accuracy in under 0.5 seconds. Hitachi Energy and AWS launched a cloud-based AI application, Hitachi Vegetation Manager, to predict and prevent tree-related outages. Schneider Electric rolled out its One Digital Grid platform, using AI-enabled analytics to unify grid planning, operations, and customer engagement with real-time monitoring and predictive analytics. Siemens demonstrated updates to its Xcelerator
4 July 2025
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Claude AI Revolution: An Up-to-Date 2025 Guide to Anthropic’s ChatGPT Rival

Claude AI Revolution: An Up-to-Date 2025 Guide to Anthropic’s ChatGPT Rival

In May 2025, Anthropic released Claude 4 as Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, introducing a 200K+ token context window, code execution, and agentic tool use with a new Files API. Claude 2.1, released in November 2023, expanded the context to 200K tokens, cut hallucinations by about 2x, and added beta support for tool use such as API calls and web search. The Claude 3 family launched in March 2024 with Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, added multimodal support (text and images) and a tiered model lineup, with Claude 3 Opus maintaining 200K context and experiments hinting at up to
3 July 2025
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AI in July 2025: Superintelligence, Talent Wars, and Societal Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 00:01 CET

AI in July 2025: Superintelligence, Talent Wars, and Societal Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 00:01 CET

Meta launched its Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), with reports of offers up to $300 million over four years to recruit talent from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Meta’s talent tactics as distasteful and OpenAI countered by offering staff a one-week break and considering salary increases to retain talent. Microsoft laid off about 9,000 employees (nearly 4% of its workforce) as it expands AI and cloud capabilities, with GitHub Copilot now generating 20-30% of internal code and 2025 capital spending planned at $80 billion. Amazon deployed
3 July 2025
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AI Stocks Soar to New Highs: Trends, Big Moves & What Analysts Predict Next

AI Stocks Soar to New Highs: Trends, Big Moves & What Analysts Predict Next

Nvidia (NVDA) became a $1 trillion company in 2023, commands roughly 80% of the AI chip market, and sells the H100 and H200 data-center GPUs powering modern AI models. The S&P 500’s Magnificent Seven—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla, and Meta—account for about 35% of the index’s market cap and have delivered over 70% of its gains since the start of 2023. OpenAI’s ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, sparking an AI rally described as the “iPhone moment” for AI investing. Microsoft invested about $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023 and integrated GPT models across Bing, Copilot in Office 365,
2 July 2025
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The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 12:03 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 12:03 CET

The global AI market is valued at $391 billion in 2025, with a projected CAGR of 35.9% and an expected reach of $1.81 trillion by 2030. AI is now a business foundation, with over 6% of global startups and nearly 10% of unicorns AI-powered. 83% of companies say AI is a top priority, and daily AI use in office work has surged by 233% since late 2024. Meta launched its Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang and reportedly offered up to $300 million over four years to lure OpenAI researchers, with all 11 hires being immigrants. Microsoft’s AI Diagnostic Orchestrator
2 July 2025
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Major AdTech Developments – June & July 2025

Major AdTech Developments – June & July 2025

GroupM trimmed its 2025 global ad revenue growth forecast to about 6%, down from 7.7%, with total ad revenue expected around $1.08 trillion in 2025. Magna projects 2025 global ad revenues at $979 billion (up 4.9% vs. 2024), with retail media and search rising about 8% to $359 billion to offset declines in legacy media. Meta plans to enable brands to create and target ads with AI by 2026, while analysts warn AI-driven search interfaces could erode traditional keyword-based search revenue. DoorDash announced the $175 million acquisition of Symbiosys in June 2025 to enhance its retail media ads business, while
2 July 2025
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AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Risks, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 14:34 CET

AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Risks, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 14:34 CET

AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Risks, and the Road Ahead Table of Contents Introduction: The AI Tipping Point AI in Industry: From Automation to Transformation Manufacturing, Logistics, and Maintenance Healthcare and Biotechnology Finance, Insurance, and Investment Retail, Real Estate, and Marketing AI in Public Sector and Society Government, Administration, and Urban Planning Education and Research Law, Justice, and Regulation AI and the Workforce: Disruption, Opportunity, and Anxiety Job Creation, Loss, and Transformation Skills, Training, and the Talent War AI Technology: Models, Infrastructure, and Energy Model Advances and Agentic AI Infrastructure, Chips, and Energy Demands Environmental Impact and Green AI AI Risks:
30 June 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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Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in January 2009 Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. The 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum triggered a hard fork. Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, and the Ethereum Frontier network went live in July 2015, introducing smart contracts. By 2019, Walmart deployed a food traceability system using IBM Food Trust built on Hyperledger Fabric. Amazon launched Amazon Managed Blockchain on AWS in 2019. Ethereum’s Merge in 2022 switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, reducing energy use by about 99.95%. Christie’s sold a digital NFT artwork for $69 million in 2021, highlighting mainstream NFT
28 June 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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Robotics and Automation Trends 2025: Industry Breakthroughs and Market Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Robotics and Automation Trends 2025: Industry Breakthroughs and Market Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

In 2024 the value of new industrial robot installations reached $16.5 billion, with over 4.28 million robots operating in factories worldwide. Asia accounted for 70% of new robot installations in 2023, with China alone representing 51% of 2023 installations. In 2025 robotics is being transformed by AI, with analytical AI, Physical AI simulators like NVIDIA’s Omniverse and Isaac, and Generative AI driving a “ChatGPT moment” for physical robots. Humanoid robots like Tesla’s Optimus target about $20,000 per unit, with forecasts calling for about 40,000 units by 2032 and a $38–66 billion market by 2035. In 2024 Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci
28 June 2025
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Eyes in the Sky, Data in the Cloud – Satellite Downlink & Cloud Integration Market Skyrockets by 2032

Eyes in the Sky, Data in the Cloud – Satellite Downlink & Cloud Integration Market Skyrockets by 2032

The market is projected to grow from $14.44 billion in 2025 to $55.17 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 21.1%. In 2025, agriculture accounts for about 40% of revenue, while government and military end-users account for about 46.8%. North America leads with about 44–45% of global market share in 2025, while Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing region at about 37% share. By 2032, Asia-Pacific is projected to approach or surpass North America in market size, with North America and APAC each around one-third of the market and Europe near 20%. The number of active satellites is projected to rise to 58,000+
25 June 2025
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Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Vodafone becomes the first operator to commercially deploy satellite-guided GPS sensors in 4G/5G antennas, starting in Albania to improve alignment and signal quality. Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) will launch to the International Space Station on June 25, 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying ISRO’s Shubhanshu Shukla as the first ISRO astronaut on a commercial ISS flight. ESA will launch MTG-S1 on July 1, 2025, the first European geostationary satellite capable of atmospheric sounding, enabling extreme weather prediction with Sentinel-4 data. NASA’s Relay-2, inactive since 1967, emitted a powerful radio signal detected in June 2024, highlighting ongoing concerns about space
23 June 2025
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Latest Satellite News & Insights 23.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 23.06.2025

On June 23, 2025, ULA’s Atlas V launched 27 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites, bringing the constellation to 54 in Low-Earth Orbit and targeting a 3,232-satellite network. Spain’s INFOCA expanded wildfire response by integrating SPOT satellite devices with Globalstar and Technosylva wildfire modelling for real-time location tracking, with a webinar scheduled for June 30, 2025. A new batch of Starlink v2 mini satellites, Starlink 10-18, launched June 18, 2025 and will be visible over Ukraine in a 280 km orbit, with each satellite visible for 3–4 minutes and a 30-second interval between appearances, while Starlink operates about 7,000 satellites. NASA’s Perseverance
23 June 2025
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Top 100 Robotics and Drone Companies Shaping the Future of Automation (2025)

Top 100 Robotics and Drone Companies Shaping the Future of Automation (2025)

Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) operates over 500,000 mobile robots in its fulfillment centers to power rapid order fulfillment. DJI remains the world’s largest drone manufacturer, commanding over 70% of the global market with flagship Phantom and Mavic series. SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper humanoid, launched in 2014, was the world’s first full-scale consumer-facing humanoid robot and became an iconic retail assistant. Intuitive Surgical dominates robotic surgery with the da Vinci system, boasting more than 7,500 installed robots worldwide and over 10 million surgeries performed. Zipline operates autonomous fixed-wing medical delivery drones with more than 500,000 deliveries and flight ranges up to
22 June 2025
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100 AI Titans Shaping the Future: The Global AI Power List 2025

100 AI Titans Shaping the Future: The Global AI Power List 2025

Alphabet (Google) – United States, founded 1998; parent of Google and Google DeepMind, with TensorFlow and the Gemini generative AI ecosystem underpinning its AI strategy. Microsoft – United States, founded 1975; global leader in enterprise AI with Azure AI services and a multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI to bring GPT-based tools to customers. OpenAI – United States, founded 2015; creators of GPT-4, DALL·E 2, and Whisper, whose ChatGPT release in late 2022 catalyzed mainstream generative AI adoption. NVIDIA – United States, founded 1993; the leading AI hardware provider powering training and inference with GPUs, CUDA, Jetson for robotics, and Drive for
22 June 2025
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Latest News and Developments in Satellites (2024–2025)

Latest News and Developments in Satellites (2024–2025)

In the first four months of 2025, over 1,200 satellites were launched, roughly a 50% increase from the same period in 2024. SpaceX’s Starlink had more than 7,000 small satellites in orbit by late 2024, with 573 Starlinks launched in Q1 2025 and about 9,000 laser inter-satellite links moving some 42 petabytes of data per day. In October 2024, SpaceX completed the final batch of OneWeb’s first-generation broadband satellites, bringing the constellation to roughly 634 LEO satellites. Amazon’s Project Kuiper launched its first 27 satellites in April 2025 on a ULA Atlas V, starting a planned 3,236-satellite network with a
21 June 2025
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KLA stock price jumps 8% as chip rebound lifts KLAC — what to know before Monday

KLA stock price jumps 8% as chip rebound lifts KLAC — what to know before Monday

8 February 2026
KLA Corp shares surged 8.4% to $1,442.95 Friday, leading gains in chip-equipment stocks after Amazon announced a major increase in capital spending. About 1.6 million KLA shares traded as the PHLX semiconductor index rose 5.7%. KLA’s board declared a $1.90 quarterly dividend, payable March 3 to holders as of Feb. 17. Applied Materials and Lam Research also rallied sharply into the close.
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