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AI Shake-Up: Pentagon’s $200M Contracts, Meta’s Mega Investment, and an Open-Source AI Outsmarting GPT-4

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded up to $200 million contracts to four AI firms: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI. The contracts fund development of agentic AI systems to tackle critical national security challenges, according to DoD official Doug Matty. Musk’s Grok chatbot will be adapted for government use as part of a new “Grok…
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Nvidia’s Blockbuster July 2025: $4 Trillion Milestone, New Chips, and Global AI Power Plays

Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion market value in July 2025, with shares peaking at $164.42 on July 9 and closing that day at about a $3.97 trillion market cap. Nvidia guided about $45 billion in quarterly revenue for Q2 FY2026 (the quarter ending July). Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU with the…
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OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks.…
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2025 Fighter Jet Revolution: New Stealth Fighters, Global Deals, and Sky-High Showdowns

China publicly unveiled the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter in 2025, with at least two J-35 prototypes seen at the SAC aircraft plant signaling low-rate production and a land-based J-35A variant. An upgraded J-15T naval fighter was revealed, featuring new indigenous engines, catapult launch capability for China’s carrier Fujian, an AESA radar, and compatibility with PL-10…
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The Race to 6G: How the Next-Gen Network Will Revolutionize Connectivity (and Leave 5G in the Dust)

6G will operate in sub-terahertz bands roughly 0.1–1 THz, enabling peak data rates up to 1 Tbps under ideal conditions, a goal highlighted by researchers like Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam. Ultra-low latency targets microseconds, specifically about 1 µs one-way, enabling real-time holographic video, tactile Internet, and near-instantaneous AR/VR. AI-native architecture: 6G will embed AI/ML at its core,…
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Urban Air Mobility 2025: Air-Taxi Pilot Programs, Launch Cities, and Regulatory Hurdles

In April 2025 New York City’s Economic Development Corporation unveiled the Downtown Skyport at the Manhattan heliport, the city’s first eVTOL hub. As of mid-2025, 92 U.S. cities and airports have active plans for eVTOL operations. Abu Dhabi plans to become the world’s first city with a commercial eVTOL service in 2025, with Archer Aviation…
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EV Battery Economics 2025: Cost-Parity Milestones and Chemistry Breakthroughs

Global EV battery pack prices fell about 20% in 2024, dropping from roughly $149/kWh in 2023 to the low $100s by year-end. In 2024, LFP cell prices were just under $60/kWh, and some Chinese LFP packs were produced for well under $90/kWh, enabling price parity with ICE for certain models. In 2024, a NMC811 pack…
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Global Drone Market in Q3 2025: Supply Chain, Geopolitics, and Export Controls

In Q3 2025 the global drone market faces significant supply-chain pressure from component shortages, tariffs, and logistics delays, with China historically dominating motor, ESC, battery, flight controller, camera, sensor, propeller, and carbon-fiber airframe production. After China tightened dual-use drone component exports in late 2024, infrared sensor exports fell by 30% and prices tripled, while U.S.-bound…
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Smartphone Showdown Summer 2025: Foldables, Flagships & Market Shake-ups

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 in Summer 2025; Fold7 is the thinnest and lightest large-format foldable at 8.9 mm folded. Fold7 features a reengineered hinge that reduces the display crease and a 200 MP main camera—the first 200 MP on Samsung foldables. Fold7 includes an 8-inch inner display for multitasking,…
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Global Tech Shake-Up: Massive Breakthroughs and Crises Rock the Industry (12–13 July 2025 Roundup)

Geely’s Zeekr is rumored to be preparing a hypercar with over 2,000 horsepower, an upgrade to the Zeekr 001 FR that currently has 1,300 horsepower. Lucid Motors’ Air Grand Touring set a Guinness World Record for the longest electric-vehicle journey without recharging, covering about 1,205 km from St. Moritz to Munich. BYD will start assembling…
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