In 2025, Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba’s language models gained global traction, with DeepSeek reportedly priced at 1/17th the cost of leading US models and adopted by HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Saudi Aramco. US tech giants increased AI infrastructure spending in 2025, with Microsoft committing $80 billion and Meta $68 billion to data…
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Microsoft laid off over 9,000 employees (about 4% of its global workforce) across Xbox/Microsoft Gaming, King, Bethesda, Rare, Undead Labs, Turn 10 Studios, as part of a shift toward AI and cost optimization. The layoffs were accompanied by cancellations and studio closures, including Perfect Dark reboot cancellation and The Initiative closure, Everwild scrapped, and ZeniMax…
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Meta launched its Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), with reports of offers up to $300 million over four years to recruit talent from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepMind. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Meta’s talent tactics as distasteful and OpenAI countered by offering staff a one-week…
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SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch with the deployment of 27 Starlink satellites and the 29th booster reuse. MTG-S1, Europe’s first geostationary hyperspectral infrared atmospheric sounder, launched July 1, 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 alongside the Sentinel-4 instrument for hourly air-quality data over Europe and North Africa. MethaneSAT, an $88 million climate satellite…
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In the United States, data scientists average about $156,790 in total pay annually, with New York around $160,000 and San Francisco topping $178,000. Switzerland leads Europe with data scientists averaging about $143,360 per year. OpenAI compensation data shows a median total of about $875,000, with entry-level around $238,000 and senior levels around $1.34 million, and…
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Kuwait had approximately 4.29 million internet users, about 99% of the population, as of early 2024 per DataReportal. The country had around 7.89 million cellular mobile connections in 2024, equating to 182% of the population due to multiple SIM usage. Zain Kuwait launched 5G in 2019, becoming the first to roll out 5G among the…
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The global AI market is valued at $391 billion in 2025, with a projected CAGR of 35.9% and an expected reach of $1.81 trillion by 2030. AI is now a business foundation, with over 6% of global startups and nearly 10% of unicorns AI-powered. 83% of companies say AI is a top priority, and daily…
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Verizon Business launched the Edge Transportation Exchange, a 5G MEC-based V2X platform enabling real-time data sharing among vehicles, infrastructure, and pedestrians, piloted with Volkswagen, state transportation departments, and universities across Arizona, Delaware, and New Jersey. Rockwell Automation introduced OptixEdge, an on-site industrial gateway that processes factory machine data locally and integrates with FactoryTalk Optix, reducing…
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Meta launches Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) to pursue AGI and superintelligence, led by Alexandr Wang, recruiting top talent from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic with leadership compensation reportedly up to $300 million over four years and unifying Llama models under MSL. Microsoft unveils MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), achieving 85.5% accuracy in diagnosing complex medical cases—four…
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images from Cerro Pachón, Chile, featuring galaxies and the Trifid Nebula, and will generate 10 million alerts per night with the world’s largest digital camera. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet orbiting the star TWA 7. MTG-S1, a 1.8-ton satellite carrying the Sentinel-4…
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