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Technology News 2 July 2025 - 4 July 2025

Tech News Today: Foldable Phones, AI Video, Interstellar Visitors, and the End of Exclusivity / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:01 CET

Tech News Today: Foldable Phones, AI Video, Interstellar Visitors, and the End of Exclusivity / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:01 CET

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Fold7 for the July 9, 2025 Galaxy Unpacked event, featuring an 8.2-inch main display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, Android 16 with One UI 8, a 4,400mAh battery with 40-hour life, IP48 water resistance, a drop rating A, average repairability C, Blue Shadow color, and a thinner, lighter design. Samsung is preparing the Galaxy G Fold, the world’s first triple-folding phone (Multifold 7), with a nearly 10-inch display, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, with mass production planned for September 2025 and a Q4 holiday release. Google’s Veo 3 AI
4 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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Space News Roundup: Strategic Satellites, Interstellar Visitors, Quantum Networks, and More / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:00 CET

Space News Roundup: Strategic Satellites, Interstellar Visitors, Quantum Networks, and More / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:00 CET

Boeing won a $2.8 billion U.S. Space Force contract to develop two Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) satellites, with options for two more, for NC3 in geostationary orbit, with first delivery targeted for 2031. MethaneSAT, a $134 million satellite funded by the Environmental Defense Fund and Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund, was lost after 15 months in orbit, ending methane-emission monitoring that had revealed some regions emit up to 10 times higher than prior estimates. ESA launched MTG-S1, the first geostationary meteorological sounder, alongside Copernicus Sentinel-4 to deliver real-time high-resolution atmospheric data for Europe. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, in operation since
4 July 2025
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OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

In April 2025 OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, featuring improved coding abilities and a 1,000,000 token context window. In March 2025 OpenAI released the new multimodal image generation model called 4o, enhancing image capabilities. In June 2025 OpenAI and Mattel announced an AI-powered toy collaboration, with the first Mattel product using OpenAI tech expected late 2025. In February 2025 OpenAI and SoftBank Group disclosed a plan to deploy Advanced Enterprise AI, including a Cristal intelligence system, with SoftBank committing $3 billion per year and a SB OpenAI Japan joint venture. In March 2025 veteran researcher Mark Chen was promoted
4 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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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 is offering signing bonuses over $100 million and up to $300 million over four years to build its AI talent, with Ilya Sutskever now leading Safe Superintelligence after Daniel Gross joined Meta. Nvidia reached a $3.92 trillion market cap, becoming
4 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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Janitor AI: The Unfiltered Chatbot Revolution Hooking Millions (and Stirring Controversy)

Janitor AI: The Unfiltered Chatbot Revolution Hooking Millions (and Stirring Controversy)

Janitor AI was founded by Australian software developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023. In its first weeks, Janitor AI attracted over 1 million users within a week or two of launch. By September 2023, the platform had amassed around 3 million users, having hit the 1-million mark in 17 days. As of early 2024, more than 70% of its users were female, reflecting a romance/roleplay demographic skew. In July 2023, OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist and cut off Janitor AI’s access to the GPT API. After losing OpenAI access, Janitor AI rebuilt on-premise with hundreds of GPUs and launched
3 July 2025
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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Internet Access in the Netherlands: 2025 Status and Outlook

Internet Access in the Netherlands: 2025 Status and Outlook

By early 2025, fiber is available to over 7–8 million of about 9.3 million Dutch households, roughly 75–85% coverage. Fiber take-up reached about 3.2 million lines by end-2024. DSL is rapidly being phased out as KPN replaces copper with fiber and piloted copper network shutdowns in areas where fiber is live. Cable networks cover roughly 89% of homes with DOCSIS 3.1 in 2022, and Ziggo passes about 90% of homes. Ziggo plans to implement DOCSIS 4.0 by mid-decade, enabling multi-gigabit speeds up to about 8 Gbps on cable. Many fiber networks offer open access wholesale, allowing numerous ISPs to provide
3 July 2025
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Drone Laws in Paris

Drone Laws in Paris

Paris is governed by the permanent LF-P 23 no-fly zone, which covers the city from ground level up to 6,500 feet (about 1,981 meters) within the périphérique. To fly a drone in Paris, operators must obtain written authorization from the Paris Police Prefecture, with applications now due at least 10 working days before the flight as of April 2025. Under EU rules, drone operations are Open, Specific, or Certified, and in central Paris most urban flights fall under the Specific category requiring DGAC authorization, with STS options available for some operations. Drones weighing 250 g or more or with a
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. OpenAI agreed to lease 4.5 GW of data-center power from Oracle as part of the $500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project. Ford CEO Jim Farley predicted that AI will literally replace half of all white-collar jobs in the US. A
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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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-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

AI-Generated Music Is Exploding in 2025 – Inside the Revolution Shaking the Music Industry

A viral AI deepfake song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd and racked up millions of streams before Universal Music Group demanded its removal. In June 2024, the RIAA and the Big Three labels (UMG, Sony, Warner) sued Suno and Udio for alleged en masse copyright infringement, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work. Google opened public access to MusicLM via its AI Test Kitchen in mid-2023, and MusicLM was trained on about 280,000 hours of music. Meta released MusicGen under the Audiocraft project in 2023, trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music and able to
2 July 2025
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Drone Laws and Regulations in Russia (2025 Comprehensive Overview)

Drone Laws and Regulations in Russia (2025 Comprehensive Overview)

Since a 2015 amendment to the Air Code, Russia classifies all drones as aircraft under civil aviation law, with oversight by the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia). Drones are regulated by use category: hobbyist, commercial, and government, with separate licensing and registration for each. Drones over 150 grams and up to 30 kg must be registered with Rosaviatsia, a threshold lowered from 250 g in 2022. As of end-2023 over 93,000 civilian drones were registered; by end-2024 the total exceeded 116,000, with about 70–80% owned by individuals. Commercial drone pilots must obtain an Unmanned Aircraft Operator Certificate (UAV operator certificate)
2 July 2025
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Internet Access in Kuwait (2025 Comprehensive Report)

Internet Access in Kuwait (2025 Comprehensive Report)

Kuwait had approximately 4.29 million internet users, about 99% of the population, as of early 2024 per DataReportal. The country had around 7.89 million cellular mobile connections in 2024, equating to 182% of the population due to multiple SIM usage. Zain Kuwait launched 5G in 2019, becoming the first to roll out 5G among the three major operators, with 5G coverage reaching about 97% of the population by 2020. In July 2024, the Ministry of Communications announced the shutdown of copper services in several districts of Kuwait City and suburbs, encouraging customers to switch to fiber via ONTs. By 2022,
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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Edge Computing Global News & Trends Roundup (June–July 2025)

Edge Computing Global News & Trends Roundup (June–July 2025)

Verizon Business launched the Edge Transportation Exchange, a 5G MEC-based V2X platform enabling real-time data sharing among vehicles, infrastructure, and pedestrians, piloted with Volkswagen, state transportation departments, and universities across Arizona, Delaware, and New Jersey. Rockwell Automation introduced OptixEdge, an on-site industrial gateway that processes factory machine data locally and integrates with FactoryTalk Optix, reducing cloud reliance and addressing the 44% of data currently used effectively in manufacturing. 1623 Farnam completed a major expansion of its Omaha, Nebraska data hub, adding 1.5 MW capacity to support surging Midwest edge traffic and lower-latency services. Mimik Technology partnered with AMD to integrate
2 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 issuing and with Wise Platform for global transfers, making Lunar the first Nordic bank to deploy these cloud and platform solutions. In the UK, Visa launched a new pay-by-bank A2A service in early June 2025 that uses real-time Faster Payments
2 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Toyota stock price rises on CEO shake-up and higher profit outlook as buyout deadline nears

Toyota stock price rises on CEO shake-up and higher profit outlook as buyout deadline nears

7 February 2026
Toyota shares rose 2% to 3,780 yen Friday after the company raised its full-year profit forecast and announced CFO Kenta Kon will replace CEO Koji Sato on April 1. Third-quarter net revenues climbed 6.8% to 38.087 trillion yen, but North America posted a 5.6 billion yen operating loss. Toyota’s U.S. ADRs closed up 2.9%. The tender offer for Toyota Industries shares closes Feb. 12.
HSBC share price bounces back after BoE split vote — what to watch before Feb 25 results

HSBC share price bounces back after BoE split vote — what to watch before Feb 25 results

7 February 2026
HSBC shares closed up 2.2% at £13.06 on Friday, reversing Thursday’s drop as traders weighed possible Bank of England rate cuts and awaited the bank’s annual results on Feb. 25. The FTSE 100 rose 0.6%, with major UK banks also gaining. HSBC is also preparing to cut some banker bonuses and push out underperformers amid a cost reset. Key UK, U.S., and euro zone economic data are due next week.
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