In June 2024, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution approved the National Artificial Intelligence Document, a comprehensive policy blueprint for AI development. By July 2024, Iran established the National AI Organization as an independent body under the President’s supervision to steer the AI ecosystem and aim to be among the world’s top 10 AI…
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree panorama of boxwork ridges at Gale Crater using 291 Mastcam images. China’s Tianwen-3 Mars Sample…
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The 4th Hong Kong InnoTech Expo drew over 58,000 visitors and featured 120 AI-powered student teams, with winners set to represent Hong Kong at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. Mayo Clinic’s StateViewer AI tool detects nine types of dementia from a single FDG-PET brain scan with 88% accuracy, doubling speed and tripling accuracy compared…
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The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is in the midst of a seismic transformation. In just the past week, the industry has witnessed a cascade of breakthroughs, controversies, and power plays that are reshaping not only technology, but also society, the economy, and global geopolitics. From Elon Musk’s Grok AI scandal and the intensifying AI…
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In Q1 2025, Tesla posted net income of about $0.4 billion, produced roughly 362,600 vehicles and delivered about 336,700, with volume weakness tied to a refreshed Model Y rollout across four plants. For full-year 2024, Tesla reported revenue of $97.7 billion and net income of $7.1 billion, with automotive gross margins falling to around 15%…
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In the first five months of 2025, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, including a May surge of 93 GW solar and 26 GW wind, lifting total solar capacity to 1,080 GW. A June 2025 federal court overturned the freeze on the NEVI program, unfrozing about $1 billion in charging…
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Recent News and Highlights (Mid-2025) Table 1 – NVIDIA’s Explosive Revenue Growth (Fiscal year ends late January; FY2025 covers Feb 2024–Jan 2025) Fiscal Year Annual Revenue (USD) YoY Growth FY2023 (ended Jan 2023) $26.97 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +0.2% macrotrends.net (flat) FY2024 (ended Jan 2024) $60.92 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +125.9% macrotrends.net FY2025 (ended Jan 2025) $130.50 billion nvidianews.nvidia.com macrotrends.net +114.2% macrotrends.net NVIDIA’s revenues more…
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Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted…
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Nintendo Switch 2 launched on June 5, 2025, alongside a wave of first-party titles, with Mario Kart World as a day-one exclusive priced at $79.99. Enhanced Switch 2 editions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild were released on launch day with improved performance.…
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By 2025, about 99.8% of UK households are within reach of a decent broadband connection (≥10 Mbps). About 97–98% of UK households have an active internet subscription. In 2024, the average fixed broadband speed was around 157 Mbps, up from just over 50 Mbps in 2022. Gigabit-capable broadband is available to about 84% of UK…
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