In 2024, global smartphone shipments reached 1.24 billion units, up 6.4% year over year, with revenues exceeding $500 billion. Premium smartphones (≥$600) accounted for about 25% of global unit sales in 2024, while ultra-premium (> $1,000) comprised around 40% of premium sales. In early 2025, Samsung and Apple together controlled about 40% of global smartphone…
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In March 2025 Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense created a Space Policy Directorate to coordinate military space efforts. The crowdfunded ICEYE SAR satellite nicknamed the “People’s Satellite” remained Ukraine’s only satellite under national control, since 2022. Deputy Defense Minister Kateryna Chernohorenko outlined a 2030 roadmap to deploy Ukrainian defense satellites and an air-launch early-warning system. In…
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Fiber-optic drones transmit control commands and live video through a physical fiber tether, making them jam-proof and radio-silent. There are two main categories: Tethered Power Drones (aerial elevators such as AT&T’s Flying COW) that draw power from the ground while carrying a fiber data link, and Fiber-Optic Guided Drones (free-ranging FPVs) that carry a 5–20…
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OpenAI delayed its first open-weight model release, initially expected this summer, with CEO Sam Altman saying safety tests require more time and that weights, once released, can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on several coding benchmarks. At Google I/O 2025, Google rolled out Imagen…
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4G LTE coverage reaches over 99% of Lithuania’s population, and 5G was rolled out in 2022–2023, with Telia Lietuva activating 5G in 2022 and reaching about 95% of the population and 99% of the territory by summer 2023 after mid-2022 spectrum auctions of 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz. By 2023, fiber-optic (FTTP) lines passed about…
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On July 11, 2025, Nvidia closed above a $4 trillion market cap, the first company ever to do so. On July 14, 2025, Nvidia closed at $164.07, down 0.5%, after trading between $162.02 and $165.49 intraday. Nvidia was up about 22% year-to-date and 27% year-over-year as of July 14–15, 2025. On July 15, 2025, Nvidia…
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OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out…
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In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source…
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7, which is 10% lighter and 26% thinner than its predecessor, with a 7.6-inch main display, a 200MP main camera, and a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset priced at $1,999. The Galaxy Z Flip7 features a 4.1-inch cover screen, a 6.9-inch internal display, a tougher hinge, and an Exynos 2500 processor,…
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Meta’s AI power play: the first mega-cluster, Prometheus, comes online in 2026, with a second (Hyperion) scaling to 5 gigawatts later, and Zuckerberg boasts that one cluster covers a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint. Zuckerberg personally leads a “talent raid” to hire top engineers after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, and in 2025…
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