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…
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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…
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The Vera Rubin Observatory began its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with first light and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, aiming to image the southern sky every few days and catalog over 40 billion objects. Perseverance completed its 30th Martian rock analysis on a sample named Kenmore, using the gaseous Dust Removal Tool to study…
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In 2025 Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), aiming to reach artificial superintelligence, backed by a $29 billion investment in AI data centers and a 49% stake in Scale AI, even as the Llama 4 model underperformed. Apple is reportedly considering replacing its in-house…
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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,…
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Biomass was selected in May 2013 as ESA’s seventh Earth Explorer mission to quantify forest carbon from space. The mission uses a P-band synthetic aperture radar at ~435 MHz (about 70 cm wavelength) with a 12-meter mesh reflector deployed in orbit to penetrate canopies and sense trunks. It employs fully polarimetric SAR (HH, HV, VH,…
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured images of exoplanet TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the young star TWA 7, using high-contrast imaging and a coronagraph. Israeli airstrikes on western Iran targeted military satellites, air defense systems, and missile infrastructure, using around 20 fighter jets and over 30 munitions. ESA’s Biomass satellite, launched in April,…
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BIOMASS uses a fully polarimetric P-band SAR with a 70 cm wavelength to pierce through canopies and measure woody trunks where most forest carbon is stored. The 12-meter deployable reflector, shaped like an umbrella and built by L3Harris, directs radar pulses back to the sensor. The 1.25-tonne spacecraft was launched on 29 April 2025 aboard…
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Google Quantum AI achieved quantum supremacy in 2019 with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor performing a random circuit sampling task in 200 seconds. IBM Quantum progressed from the 127-qubit Eagle milestone in 2021 to 433-qubit Osprey in 2022, with a plan for a 1,121-qubit Condor and a long-term goal of about one million physical qubits by…
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In mid-June 2025, India’s Department of Telecommunications granted Starlink a Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) license, publicly confirmed by Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. Starlink becomes the third GMPCS licensee in India after Eutelsat OneWeb and Reliance Jio’s satellite venture. Starlink operates a Low-Earth Orbit constellation at about 550 km altitude, and globally has…
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