Technology News 9 July 2025 - 13 July 2025

OpenAI announced a Chromium-based browser that deeply integrates ChatGPT and Operator, aiming to disrupt Google Chrome. Samsung unveiled Galaxy Z Fold7 and Flip7 at Galaxy Unpacked Summer 2025, with the Fold7 featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite, 12GB RAM, a 200MP camera, dual AMOLED displays, an 8-inch main display, and a 4.2mm unfolded thickness at 215g. Google Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro launch on August 20, 2025, with European prices starting at €899 and €1,099 respectively, and Tensor G5 built on TSMC’s 3nm process. Microsoft released the Phi-4-mini-Flash-Reasoning model, a 3.8B-parameter open-source LLM that runs up to 10x faster than

Hailuo AI, MiniMax’s free text-to-video app, went viral in 2025 for Cat Olympics clips, and in early summer 2025 launched Hailuo 02 with 1080p video and camera effects. PixVerse AI reached over 10 million downloads in 8 months and lets users turn a single photo into a short animated video, with GIF export options. AI kissing video generators such as DeeVid, Clipfly, and Pollo use deepfake-like tech to animate two photos into kissing clips and spiked searches for “AI kissing generator free”. AI Bigfoot surged in 2025, with AI-stabilized versions of the Patterson–Gimlin film and AI-generated Bigfoot vlogs with human-like

In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed drug discovery, with human trials imminent. The European Union’s AI Act bans manipulative algorithms, social scoring, and predictive policing to protect fundamental rights. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot sparked global outrage for antisemitic and Nazi-themed content, triggering bans in Turkey and investigations in Poland and the