AI News Table of Contents Introduction: AI’s Ubiquity and Disruption AI in the Global Economy: Growth, Jobs, and Talent Wars AI Policy, Regulation, and Public Trust AI in Industry: From Agriculture to Finance AI in Healthcare and Medicine AI in Education: Promise, Pitfalls, and Policy AI and the Future of Work AI in Consumer Technology…
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Commercial Maxar satellite imagery shows Fordo bomb craters rapidly clearing and heavy engineering near damaged ventilation shafts after Iran’s airstrikes, with General Dan Kane confirming the use of 12 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs described as turning “night into day”. Natanz enrichment complex repairs have begun, with ISW analysts noting restoration work and reports of a…
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In June 2024, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution approved the National Artificial Intelligence Document, a comprehensive policy blueprint for AI development. By July 2024, Iran established the National AI Organization as an independent body under the President’s supervision to steer the AI ecosystem and aim to be among the world’s top 10 AI…
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In 2022 Taiwan had about 6.55 million fixed broadband accounts, with 4.12 million (63%) fiber-based and 2.17 million (≈33%) cable modem subscribers, while ADSL subscriptions fell to around 260,000. As of 2024, the median fixed download speed is about 198 Mbps (mean ~137 Mbps), over 45% of fixed accounts enjoy 100–500 Mbps, and gigabit subscribers…
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Global Marketplace Highlights (B2C & B2B) Innovations in E-Commerce Infrastructure & Technology Leading e-commerce companies made significant infrastructure and tech upgrades in mid-2025 to improve performance and scalability: Payments and Fintech Updates in E-Commerce The intersection of e-commerce and financial technology saw major developments in June–July 2025, as platforms and payment providers rolled out new…
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Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its 50th and final mission on June 28 (US time), launching the GOSAT-GW (“Ibuki”) greenhouse gases and water-cycle satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit with an official 98% reliability rate for the H-2A family. Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-33 flight from Launch Site One in West Texas on June 29 carried six…
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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,…
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree panorama of boxwork ridges at Gale Crater using 291 Mastcam images. China’s Tianwen-3 Mars Sample…
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The 4th Hong Kong InnoTech Expo drew over 58,000 visitors and featured 120 AI-powered student teams, with winners set to represent Hong Kong at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. Mayo Clinic’s StateViewer AI tool detects nine types of dementia from a single FDG-PET brain scan with 88% accuracy, doubling speed and tripling accuracy compared…
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The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is in the midst of a seismic transformation. In just the past week, the industry has witnessed a cascade of breakthroughs, controversies, and power plays that are reshaping not only technology, but also society, the economy, and global geopolitics. From Elon Musk’s Grok AI scandal and the intensifying AI…
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