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NASDAQ:META News 23 June 2025 - 2 July 2025

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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The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2025: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, unifying all AI R&D to accelerate AGI with a multi-billion-dollar investment reportedly over $70 billion and recruiting top talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Microsoft unveiled the AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), powered by OpenAI’s o3 model and others, achieving 80–85.5% diagnostic accuracy on real-world cases and reducing diagnostic costs by 20% versus human doctors scoring about 20%. Apple is exploring partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini to power the next generation of Siri, with an internal Siri LLM and a full upgrade potentially delayed until 2026.
1 July 2025
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AI News Roundup – June 29, 2025 (Daily AI News and Analysis)

AI News Roundup – June 29, 2025 (Daily AI News and Analysis)

Alibaba unveiled the Qwen VLo image-generating AI model and pledged at least ¥380 billion ($53 billion) to AI infrastructure over the next three years, including a second data center in South Korea and a broader Qwen multimodal lineup for AGI ambitions. Anthropic’s Project Vend put the Claude-based agent Claudius in charge of a vending machine, triggering a 25% employee discount, freebies, tungsten-cube orders at a loss, an April 1 hallucination, and the conclusion they would not hire Claudius. Meta Platforms is recruiting at least eight OpenAI researchers, including Trapit Bansal, as Llama 4 underperforms and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jokes
29 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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AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

Meta hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher, and acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing a 1.1 GW nuclear power supply for AI data centers starting in 2027. Amazon’s stock has nearly doubled in the past three years as AWS commands about 30% of the global cloud market, fueling AI‑driven growth across its businesses. Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, upgrading its AI‑driven support platform with a live‑monitoring command center and an Agent Exchange marketplace of over 100 pre‑built automations, boosting AI adoption 233% in six months. Perplexity Labs added features turning its AI
28 June 2025
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AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

MrBeast removed the $80/month AI thumbnail generator on Viewstats after backlash and replaced it with a directory of real thumbnail artists, while he has 385+ million subscribers. Denmark unveiled legislation to grant individuals copyright over their face and voice, with about 90% of MPs backing the bill and it heading to Parliament in autumn. AI-focused tokens slumped about 29% in the last 30 days, with TAO down ~29%, NEAR down ~27%, FET down ~26%, RNDR down ~33%, even as Nvidia stock hit record highs. Anthropic’s Claude ran a month-long “Project Vend” in its San Francisco office, managing a snack shop,
28 June 2025
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June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5 is expected to launch in summer 2025 and is reportedly materially better than GPT-4. Midjourney unveiled its first text-to-video system, Model V1, producing 16-second videos with advanced motion and style control in June 2025. China’s MiniMax released the M1 large model as an open-source Apache 2.0-licensed challenger claiming cutting-edge performance with far less computing power. Meta’s next-generation LLaMA 4 Behemoth was delayed to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action model that runs entirely on robots with on-board processing and can be fine-tuned with as few as
28 June 2025
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Virtual Reality in 2025: Latest Trends, New Releases and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Virtual Reality in 2025: Latest Trends, New Releases and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Meta’s Quest 3, released in late 2023, is a standalone VR headset with mixed reality capabilities that is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor and features high-resolution pancake lenses plus full-color passthrough for MR. Apple’s Vision Pro, announced in mid-2023 and released in early 2024, costs about $3,500 and uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays with advanced eye- and hand-tracking and passthrough AR for spatial computing. Samsung and Google’s Project Moohan XR headset is slated for late 2025, uses Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, reportedly delivers up to 4.3K per-eye displays with pancake optics and color passthrough, and runs an
27 June 2025
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AI Trends in June 2025: Major News, Market Insights, and Key Developments (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

AI Trends in June 2025: Major News, Market Insights, and Key Developments (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Google announced the integration of Imagen 4 into its Gemini AI platform in June 2025, enabling high-quality image generation from chat prompts with improved in-image text generation and default watermarking. Meta unveiled V-JEPA 2 on June 11, 2025, a Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture that uses self-supervised learning to understand video and enables zero-shot robot control. Apple introduced on-device generative AI across iOS 19, iPadOS 19 and macOS at WWDC 2025, including an on-device ChatGPT integration that runs locally on the Neural Engine and opens core models to third-party developers. Midjourney launched its first AI video generation model, Model V1,
26 June 2025
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Starlink’s Sky‑High Cell Service—How T‑Mobile’s October Data Launch Could Obliterate Dead Zones and Rewrite Mobile Internet Forever

Starlink’s Sky‑High Cell Service—How T‑Mobile’s October Data Launch Could Obliterate Dead Zones and Rewrite Mobile Internet Forever

On 1 October 2025, T-Mobile and SpaceX will enable third‑party app data for a curated list of apps (WhatsApp, X, Google, Apple, AccuWeather, AllTrails) after the commercial SMS/MMS debut on 23 July 2025. SpaceX has placed more than 650 direct‑to‑cell satellites in orbit, with 657 currently operational forming the initial U.S. mesh. U.S. coverage now spans about 500,000 square miles, with capacity projected to double by 2026 as more satellites with 2 GHz payloads launch. The FCC approved the service in November 2024 as a “public‑interest benefit” and said it can support 911 access in remote areas while deferring higher
24 June 2025
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State of Internet Access in Palau: From Coral Reefs to Starlink

State of Internet Access in Palau: From Coral Reefs to Starlink

Until 2017 Palau relied entirely on satellite internet, with only about 25% of the population online. In 2017 Palau lit its first fiber link by connecting a spur into the trans-Pacific SEA-US cable, known as Palau Cable 1, near Guam, financed by a $25 million Asian Development Bank loan. Palau Cable 2 is under construction as part of the Echo transoceanic cable, linking Palau to the Google/Meta-led Echo network; activation is now expected in Q1 2025 with a landing station in Ngardmau State and funding from a Japan–Australia–United States trilateral partnership. Mid-2023 Palau experienced a week-long outage of its lone
23 June 2025
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AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is slated for release this summer, with Sam Altman calling it “materially better” than GPT-4 and hinting limited advertising outside the output stream. Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 in May, claiming top SWE-bench scores and improved memory with built-in tool use. Google DeepMind’s Gemini evolves into a “universal assistant” at Google I/O 2025, offering browser actions, multimodal context, and deeper Google ecosystem integrations. Meta released Llama 4 in April as a fully open-source multimodal model with Scout and Maverick variants, already live on Hugging Face for commercial fine-tuning. Nvidia announced Rubin, a family of GPUs
23 June 2025
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