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NASDAQ:GOOGL News 3 July 2025 - 10 July 2025

Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025 and updates UK GDPR with predefined “recognised legitimate interests”, higher PECR fines up to £17.5M or 4% of global turnover, and new Smart Data portability and digital identity frameworks. The European Commission extended the UK’s EU adequacy decision by six months to 27 December 2025 to reassess data protection adequacy. EU policy in May 2025 proposed GDPR simplification for SMEs, exempting organizations with fewer than 750 employees from processing records unless high-risk processing occurs. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) entered into force in July
10 July 2025
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API Management and Integration Platforms Mid‑2025: Key Innovations, Deals, and Trends

API Management and Integration Platforms Mid‑2025: Key Innovations, Deals, and Trends

In late June 2025 MuleSoft announced AI agent orchestration in Anypoint Platform, adding Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) support, an MCP Connector to expose APIs as MCP endpoints, Flex Gateway upgrades for secure MCP/A2A connectivity, and Anypoint Code Builder AI tooling. Google Cloud Apigee’s Gemini Code Assist reached general availability on June 18, 2025, integrating Gemini LLMs with Apigee’s API hub to generate OpenAPI specs via chat, provide AI-generated spec summaries, and support iterative refinement while enforcing enterprise security standards. Postman unveiled Agent Mode at POST/CON 2025 (June 3–4, 2025), an AI-native assistant that executes design, testing, documentation,
9 July 2025
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Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5 LLM family under Apache 2.0, releasing 10 variants from 300M to 424B parameters and claiming the 300B model outperforms rivals at half the size. ElevenLabs released an alpha of its v3 model with 70+ languages and partnered with Cisco to embed lifelike voice AI into Webex contact centers. Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC 2025, delivering real-time on-device translation across iOS 16, FaceTime, and calls using Apple’s foundation language model. MIT researchers published on June 17, 2025 a study identifying the root cause of position bias in transformers and proposed architectural fixes to improve topic-tracking in
9 July 2025
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Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Deloitte forecasts global data center electricity use will nearly double from about 536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. S&P Global projects U.S. data center power demand rising about 12% annually through 2030, with roughly 60% of new demand potentially met by natural gas. Germany passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEFG) requiring 100% renewable energy by 2027 for all data centers, a PUE of 1.2 or better for facilities operational from July 2026, at least 10% energy reuse, and an energy or environmental management system by July 1, 2025. Effective July 1, 2025, any data center hosting
8 July 2025
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AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

The European Union’s AI Act will be fully enforced by mid-2026, establishing strict rules for high-risk AI applications across member states. Capgemini agreed to acquire WNS Holdings for $3.3 billion to accelerate autonomous AI for enterprise operations. At the BRICS summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged multilateral AI governance and announced plans for an independent UN AI advisory body. Ukraine’s Diia app now resolves 52% of support requests using AI, signaling rapid digital-government transformation. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated music group, surpassed 1 million Spotify streams in a month. Isomorphic Labs, Google’s DeepMind spin-off, will begin human trials for AI-developed
8 July 2025
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AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

ChatGPT uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 with multi-turn dialogue and voice input/output, refined through RLHF, and offers a ChatGPT Plus plan at $20 per month. Google Bard runs on PaLM/LaMDA, can generate multiple draft responses and pull web results via Google Search, and is currently free to use in the experiment phase. Soul Machines builds digital-human avatars with AI-driven real-time facial expressions and lip-sync, with enterprise pricing custom and a consumer trial of $5.99 per month. Replika provides an AI companion with a 3D avatar and text/voice interactions, with a Pro subscription approximately $70 per year. Synthesia Studio turns text into videos
7 July 2025
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Google AI Mode Unleashed: Inside the New AI Search Revolution

Google AI Mode Unleashed: Inside the New AI Search Revolution

Google unveiled AI Mode as an experiment in March 2025 and began rolling it out to all U.S. English-speaking users by May 2025 during Google I/O. AI Mode runs on Google’s Gemini AI family, initially using Gemini 2.0 before being upgraded to Gemini 2.5 at I/O 2025. The feature uses a query fan-out technique that breaks complex questions into sub-queries, searches in parallel, and synthesizes a cited answer. AI Mode appears as a dedicated ‘AI Mode’ tab in Google Search and provides AI-generated answers with links and citations. Unlike AI Overviews, AI Mode delivers a full-page narrative answer rather than
6 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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Digital Marketing Unleashed: 2025’s Top Online Strategies, Tools & Must-Know Trends

Digital Marketing Unleashed: 2025’s Top Online Strategies, Tools & Must-Know Trends

Over 5.24 billion people use social media worldwide. 72% of overall marketing spend now goes into digital channels. Global digital advertising and marketing investments reached $667 billion in 2024 and are projected to approach $786 billion by 2026. Approximately 49% of businesses say organic search provides the best marketing ROI, and 33% of internet users discover new brands via search. Email marketing yields $36–$40 in revenue per $1 spent, equating to a 3600–4000% ROI. Pay-Per-Click advertising delivers about $2 in revenue for every $1 spent (200% ROI), with Google Ads and Facebook as top platforms. In 2024, 29% of marketers
6 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories and Trends / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories and Trends / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 00:00 CET

Samsung announced global launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 for July 9, 2025, with IP48 durability, user-replaceable batteries, and the Fold 7 offering a 16GB RAM option and a 4,272mAh battery. Leaks indicate the iPhone 17 Pro Max will include a 5,000mAh battery, enabling about 35 hours of battery life, and feature a slightly thicker body plus design tweaks like a repositioned Apple logo and a modified MagSafe ring, potentially switching from titanium to aluminum. NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 is expected to deliver top-tier performance, but reports warn of a 25%+ rendering and video editing
6 July 2025
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Global SEO Market in 2025: 7 Trends, Key Players, and Bold Forecasts Unveiled

Global SEO Market in 2025: 7 Trends, Key Players, and Bold Forecasts Unveiled

In 2025, the global SEO services market is projected at $106.9 billion, up 18% from $90.3 billion in 2024. The global SEO software market is about $84.9 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach $265.9 billion by 2034, a 13.5% CAGR. Together, the SEO services and software segments exceed $150 billion worldwide in 2025. Google accounts for roughly 82% of global search engine market share in 2025, with Bing around 10.5%. Semrush (NYSE: SEMR) reported about $357 million in annual revenue in 2024 and has a market capitalization near $1.7 billion. Ahrefs surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue
5 July 2025
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AI Revolution: 21 Game-Changing Tools Transforming Small Businesses in 2025

AI Revolution: 21 Game-Changing Tools Transforming Small Businesses in 2025

In 2025, AI tools are transforming small businesses across marketing, customer service, operations, analytics, finance, HR, and productivity, with 93% of small business owners saying AI saves money and boosts profitability. Jasper (jasper.ai) is an AI copywriter for content marketing that offers 50+ templates, lets you set a brand voice, and has plans starting around $49 per month (Boss Mode). Canva’s Magic Studio adds AI-powered design suggestions and image generation, including Magic Resize, with Canva’s basic plan free and advanced features available via a Pro plan around $12 per month. HubSpot CRM & Marketing Hub provides an AI-enabled all-in-one platform
5 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 AI chip market. The UK has emerged as the world’s third-largest AI power, with a $92 billion market and 3,700 AI companies. The EU’s AI Act imposes a risk-based framework with high-risk bans, applies to all providers targeting EU users,
5 July 2025
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Black Box AI Exposed: Hidden Algorithms, Risks, and Breakthroughs in 2025

Black Box AI Exposed: Hidden Algorithms, Risks, and Breakthroughs in 2025

In May 2024, Anthropic disclosed a fundamental breakthrough mapping millions of human-interpretable concepts inside its Claude large language model, offering the first detailed inside look at a modern AI. The European Union’s AI Act took effect in 2024, requiring high-risk AI systems to be transparent and explainable, with penalties up to €30 million or 6% of global turnover for violations. A real-world case saw an insurance company’s fraud-detection AI flag loyal customers as fraudsters, creating a “customer relations nightmare” until the model’s flaws were discovered. In 2019, the Apple Card algorithm sparked a gender-bias controversy when women were offered significantly
5 July 2025
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Hailuo AI – The Viral Video Generator Shaking Up 2025 Content Creation

Hailuo AI – The Viral Video Generator Shaking Up 2025 Content Creation

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 by mid-2025 shifted to a credit-based freemium model offering a one-time welcome pack of 500 credits plus daily login credits. On June 18, 2025, Hailuo introduced paid subscriptions including Standard, Pro, and Master; Standard is about $14.9 per month and includes 1,000 credits monthly, with
5 July 2025
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The State of Artificial Intelligence: Global Impacts, Controversies, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:01 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence: Global Impacts, Controversies, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:01 CET

Over 45 major European firms—including ASML, Airbus, Mercedes-Benz, and Siemens Energy—urged the EU to delay the AI Act by two years to protect innovation. AI engineers now command $2–10 million per year, as Meta commits up to $72 billion to AI in 2025. Microsoft’s MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) diagnoses diseases four times more accurately and cheaply than human doctors, achieving 80% accuracy. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated band, has Spotify streams exceeding 750,000 per month, fueling debates about authenticity in AI-driven music. The European Commission postponed the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, delaying its release to late 2024 or beyond.
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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Google Gemini’s 2025 Takeover: How Google’s AI Powerhouse Stacks Up Against GPT-4, Claude & More

Google Gemini’s 2025 Takeover: How Google’s AI Powerhouse Stacks Up Against GPT-4, Claude & More

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 a broader release planned for 2025. In late 2024 Bard switched to a fine-tuned Gemini Pro, dramatically improving Bard’s reasoning and planning abilities. The Pixel 8 Pro uses Gemini Nano on-device to power Recorder auto-summarization and Gboard smart replies, with Android 14 introducing AICore to
3 July 2025
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Why Everyone’s Talking About Character.AI in 2025 – Major Updates, New CEO & Controversy

Why Everyone’s Talking About Character.AI in 2025 – Major Updates, New CEO & Controversy

In June 2025 Karandeep Anand, formerly Meta VP, was named CEO of Character.AI, succeeding co-founder Noam Shazeer, and he pledged a 60-day plan to improve memory, filters, and creator features. In 2025 Character.AI launched Scenes, AvatarFX, Streams, and memory tools, with Chat Memories available in May 2025, AvatarFX live on web in June, and Streams rolling out in summer 2025. Google’s 2024 licensing deal valued at about $2.5–$3 billion gave Google a non-exclusive license to Character.AI’s LLM, bought out early investors in a reverse acquihire, and kept Character.AI independent. By early 2025 Character.AI had about 20 million MAU and over
3 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Europe launched its first geostationary atmospheric sounding satellite, MTG-S1, as part of the Meteosat Third Generation program, equipped with a hyperspectral infrared sounder and Copernicus Sentinel-4 for air-quality monitoring, with a 9–12 month commissioning phase. Russia’s Kosmos-2558 approached the U.S. reconnaissance satellite USA-326, with a sub-satellite ‘Object C’ displaying high maneuverability and potential anti-satellite capabilities. MethaneSAT, an $88 million climate satellite launched in March 2024 by EDF, Google, and SpaceX, lost contact after 15 months, creating a gap in global methane-emissions monitoring. SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch, deploying Starlink satellites as the booster landed successfully and its overall
3 July 2025
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