Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet constellation, now has over 5 million customers in 125 countries, with rivals including Eutelsat OneWeb, Globalstar, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper and government-led IRIS2 and QianFan programs. Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile formed SatCo, a Luxembourg-based joint venture aiming to deliver direct-to-device satellite connectivity across Europe by 2026, integrating with 4G/5G networks. MTG-S1,…
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In May 2025, Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire data management firm Informatica for $8 billion. In May 2025, Microsoft announced a partnership with xAI to host Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure via the Azure AI Foundry service. On May 22, 2025, Red Hat and AMD announced an expanded collaboration to…
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Global energy investment is projected to reach $3.3 trillion in 2025, with about $2.2 trillion directed to clean energy technologies. Solar is expected to attract $450 billion in 2025, making it the single biggest area of energy investment. China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind between January and May 2025, with…
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The EU’s AI Act, agreed in late 2023, is being rolled out in phases with August 2, 2025 as the deadline for major obligations on providers of advanced general-purpose AI models. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson urged the EU to pause the AI Act’s implementation at the European Council meeting in late June 2025. European…
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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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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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Bitcoin hit a record high of about $112,500 on May 22, 2025, traded around $106,000–$110,000 in June, and held roughly 60% of total crypto market capitalization by mid-June. Total crypto market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion for the first time since late 2021, peaking near $3.4 trillion in June 2025. Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade went live on…
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In a Nature study, cancer cells were shown to siphon mitochondria from nearby nerve cells via microscopic tubes, a mechanism called mitochondrial hijacking that promotes metastasis. A separate Science News report described tumor DNA detectable in blood years before diagnosis, boosting early cancer screening prospects. An in vivo “exercise in a pill” approach in mice…
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