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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Revolut will integrate the European Payments Initiative’s Wero wallet into the Revolut app for customers in France, Belgium and Germany, a system launched in 2024 that already has over 40 million users and aims to add e-commerce payments by late 2025 (announced June 26, 2025). Lunar, the Nordic digital bank, announced in June 2025 partnerships…
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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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Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman, unifying all AI R&D to accelerate AGI with a multi-billion-dollar investment reportedly over $70 billion and recruiting top talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Microsoft unveiled the AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), powered by OpenAI’s o3 model and others, achieving 80–85.5% diagnostic accuracy…
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In 2025 Meta launched Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang (ex-Scale AI CEO) and Nat Friedman (ex-GitHub CEO), aiming to reach artificial superintelligence, backed by a $29 billion investment in AI data centers and a 49% stake in Scale AI, even as the Llama 4 model underperformed. Apple is reportedly considering replacing its in-house…
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NASA’s SWOT satellite, launched in 2022, has revealed over 100,000 previously unknown seafloor features, more than doubling the number of known seamounts from 44,000 to over 100,000. ESA’s Biomass satellite, equipped with a pioneering P-band radar, enables direct measurement of above-ground biomass and was scheduled to launch in April 2025. Muon Space and Earth Fire…
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Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet constellation, now has over 5 million customers in 125 countries, with rivals including Eutelsat OneWeb, Globalstar, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper and government-led IRIS2 and QianFan programs. Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile formed SatCo, a Luxembourg-based joint venture aiming to deliver direct-to-device satellite connectivity across Europe by 2026, integrating with 4G/5G networks. MTG-S1,…
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AI News Table of Contents Introduction: AI’s Ubiquity and Disruption AI in the Global Economy: Growth, Jobs, and Talent Wars AI Policy, Regulation, and Public Trust AI in Industry: From Agriculture to Finance AI in Healthcare and Medicine AI in Education: Promise, Pitfalls, and Policy AI and the Future of Work AI in Consumer Technology…
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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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