OpenAI released GPT-4o in May 2024 as a natively multimodal model that accepts text, audio, image, and video input and can generate text, audio, or images, delivering GPT-4-level performance at roughly 50% lower cost and faster speed. Google DeepMind Gemini, unveiled in December 2023, ships as Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Pro, and Nano and has exceeded…
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A boy in the United States with three years of chronic pain was diagnosed by an AI chatbot with spina bifida occulta, later confirmed by a specialist. Microsoft’s AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) achieved an 85% correct diagnosis rate on nearly 300 challenging NEJM case studies, compared with 20% for 21 experienced physicians, while ordering 20%…
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Amazon Prime Air introduced its MK30 drone in late 2024, a BVLOS-capable hexagonal aircraft that carries up to 5 lbs and operates from Tolleson, Arizona, delivering eligible items within a 4-mile radius in under an hour. Alphabet’s Wing has completed over 350,000 deliveries across 10 locations on 3 continents, using hybrid fixed-wing drones with a…
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By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300…
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Google will invest over $25 billion in U.S. AI-related data centers and infrastructure over the next two years, plus $3 billion to modernize two Pennsylvania hydropower plants to power AI data centers, under the AI Works for America initiative. Project Stargate, originally pitched as a $500 billion effort with $100 billion upfront, is being scaled…
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The DJI Mavic 4 Pro (2025) uses a Hasselblad-branded 100 MP main camera with 28 mm, 70 mm and 168 mm focal lengths, a 6K/60fps HDR video capability, and six fisheye cameras plus a front LiDAR for obstacle avoidance with an Infinity 360° rotating gimbal. It offers 51 minutes of flight time and up to…
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Huawei regained the top spot in China’s smartphone market in Q2 2025 with 12.5 million units shipped, the first time it led for more than four years. China saw the launch of more than 100 AI-native devices across smartphones, PCs, and AR glasses in 2025. JD.com reported a 7x year-over-year jump in AR glasses sales…
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By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large…
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In Q4 2024, YouTube’s advertising sales reached $10.5 billion, up from $9.2 billion in Q4 2023, boosted by U.S. midterm spending. Analysts estimated YouTube’s 2024 ad revenues at $35–36 billion, about 13–14% of Alphabet’s total ad intake, with some valuing YouTube at roughly $550 billion as a standalone enterprise. As of 2025, YouTube Premium and…
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Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company and later diversified into electronics in the late 1960s, becoming South Korea’s largest chaebol. After Lee Byung-chul’s death in 1987 the group was split among family branches, but the Lee family still controls via cross-shareholdings and Samsung Group accounts for about 20% of…
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