In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed…
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El Capitan at LLNL leads the June 2025 TOP500 with 1.742 exaFLOPS (HPL) using HPE Cray EX hardware, AMD 4th Gen EPYC CPUs, and MI300A accelerators. Frontier at ORNL is #2 with 1.353 exaFLOPS on HPL, powered by HPE Cray EX235a and AMD 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs plus MI250X GPUs. Aurora at Argonne is #3,…
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Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial.…
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FCAS/SCAF aims to field a “system of systems” including a Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) with remote carrier drones and a combat cloud, targeting 2040 in-service and costs exceeding €100 billion. The United States’ NGAD is a “family of systems” with a manned core fighter plus loyal wingman drones, potentially costing around $300 million per fighter and…
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Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieved 85.5% diagnostic accuracy on NEJM benchmarks, outperforming doctors. Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI could replace up to 50% of US office workers, with accountants and cashiers most at risk. Turkey banned Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot after antisemitic outputs, marking the country’s first AI ban. The European Union…
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Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook.…
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A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google,…
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An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent…
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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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