Circle Internet Financial’s NYSE IPO on June 5 priced at $31 per share, opened at $69, surged about 800% to over $270 within two weeks, pushing Circle’s market cap above $60 billion and the deal was oversubscribed roughly 25×. Coinbase and Kraken secured MiCA licenses to operate across all 27 EU member states (Luxembourg for…
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On June 19, 2025 UK RegTech firm CUBE announced the acquisition of Acin, its fourth deal since 2023, folding Acin’s controls benchmarking network into CUBE’s platform to form an end-to-end link from regulations to risk controls for about 1,000 institutional clients in 20+ countries with 700 staff, backed by Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan,…
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<li ATLAS imaged the interstellar candidate on 1 July 2025, with precovery back to 14 June 2025, and it was designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and later 3I/ATLAS as the third confirmed interstellar object after Oumuamua and Borisov. <li A JPL orbital solution yields eccentricity e = 6.1 ± 0.1 and hyperbolic excess velocity V∞ ≈…
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Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in late June 2025, a mass-timber building that runs fossil-fuel-free with geothermal heating and planned solar to achieve net-zero energy, designed by Buro Happold and Ennead Architects. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well in early June 2025 to retrofit a 20,000-square-foot building…
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In June 2025 Genoa, Italy was selected to host Project Hafnia, an AI-driven traffic management platform by Milestone Systems in partnership with NVIDIA, using a digital twin of the city via NVIDIA Omniverse to train vision AI models for real-time congestion mitigation. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority signed a 42-month SaaS contract to deploy Iteris…
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SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9…
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In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using…
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Apple scaled back the Liquid Glass UI in iOS 26 beta, significantly reducing transparency to improve readability ahead of the September 2025 final release. Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11 with record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2 (as low as $149 in the US and €199 in Spain) and other Apple gear, MacBook Air with…
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In June 2025, Austrian startup Revo Foods partnered with Slovenia’s Juicy Marbles to debut a 3D-printed plant-based fish fillet called “Kinda Cod,” leveraging mycoprotein and high-throughput 3D printing, and it launched direct-to-consumer in the US via Juicy Marbles’ online store with UK and EU rollout planned. In April 2025, Bel Group teamed with Standing Ovation…
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In 2025, Amazon Web Services announced a $10 billion investment in North Carolina to build an AI-focused data center campus in Richmond County, creating 500 jobs. AWS plans new data centers in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan, with CEO Matt Garman calling the expansion pace “breakneck” to support AI workloads. Alibaba Cloud opened…
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