The EU petition Stop Killing Games surpassed one million signatures after Ubisoft removed The Crew and EA announced Anthem’s sunset in January 2026. Microsoft’s Xbox division conducted mass layoffs and dissolved Turn 10 Studios, with staff redirected to support Forza Horizon after CFO Amy Hood’s aggressive targets post-Activision Blizzard King acquisition. <li Arkane Studios founder…
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The EU’s AI Act is set to take effect in mid-2026, imposing strict, risk-based regulations and market access requirements. A 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation was removed from a major US Congressional bill, underscoring regulatory contention. The US and China are locked in a high-stakes AI race, with the US investing about $700 billion…
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Snap announced the Specs AR glasses at AWE 2025 as a next-generation, lightweight glasses form factor due in 2026, backed by an 11-year, $3 billion investment, with Specs described as an ultra-powerful wearable computer with see-through lenses and major Snap OS updates including OpenAI and Gemini AI integration. At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled visionOS 26…
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Microsoft laid off thousands of employees in 2025 to redirect $80 billion toward AI development. xAI plans data centers powered by 1,000,000 Nvidia GPUs. Ford CEO Jim Farley warns AI could replace up to half of all white-collar jobs. MASAI reduces radiologist workload by 44% and achieves 96% diagnostic accuracy. Microsoft o3 model solves over…
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Samsung announced global launch of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 for July 9, 2025, with IP48 durability, user-replaceable batteries, and the Fold 7 offering a 16GB RAM option and a 4,272mAh battery. Leaks indicate the iPhone 17 Pro Max will include a 5,000mAh battery, enabling about 35 hours of battery…
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Italy has adopted the EU drone framework since 2021, applying Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/947 with Open, Specific, and Certified categories. In the Open category, drones must weigh less than 25 kg, be flown within visual line of sight (VLOS) of the operator, and operate during daytime with a maximum altitude of 120 meters. All…
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3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, about 20 kilometers in diameter, detected by NASA’s ATLAS telescope, with a closest approach of 270 million kilometers. Nvidia briefly reached a $3.92 trillion market cap, the highest on record, driven by surging demand for AI chips. Microsoft announced 9,000 job cuts…
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Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI will concretely replace half of US white-collar workers. The IMF estimates up to 60% of jobs in advanced economies may be directly affected by AI. Jiahui Yu, co-creator of GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o, moved from OpenAI to Meta in a $100 million deal to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs. Nvidia…
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NASA’s ATLAS telescope identified the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, currently about 420 million miles from Earth, with closest approach to the Sun on October 30, 2025, and it will pass safely between Mars and Earth as the third confirmed interstellar visitor after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. July marks Aphelion Day, when Earth is about 94.5 million miles…
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In May 2024, Anthropic disclosed a fundamental breakthrough mapping millions of human-interpretable concepts inside its Claude large language model, offering the first detailed inside look at a modern AI. The European Union’s AI Act took effect in 2024, requiring high-risk AI systems to be transparent and explainable, with penalties up to €30 million or 6%…
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