The global drone market is projected to grow from about $42 billion in 2025 to nearly $90 billion by 2030, a CAGR of roughly 13–14%. The Drone Industry Insights forecast excludes passenger eVTOLs and estimates the overall drone market at $57.8 billion by 2030, up from about $40.6 billion in 2025. DaaS (Drones-as-a-Service) is projected…
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As of mid-2025, SpaceX Starlink has deployed over 7,600 satellites—about 65% of all active satellites—reaching 4+ million subscribers by late 2024 and 5+ million by mid-2025 across more than 125 countries. Starlink offers 50–200+ Mbps speeds with 20–40 ms latency, using a flat phased-array user terminal nicknamed “Dishy McFlatface” and laser-linked satellites to extend polar…
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By 2025, Ukraine had around 500 drone manufacturers operating domestically. Ukraine aims to produce four million drones annually, with FPV drone output rising from about 20,000 per month in 2024 to 200,000 per month in 2025. Operation Spiderweb on June 1, 2025, deployed 117 FPV drones from inside Russia, damaged 41 aircraft across four airbases,…
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Fiber-optic drones transmit control commands and live video through a physical fiber tether, making them jam-proof and radio-silent. There are two main categories: Tethered Power Drones (aerial elevators such as AT&T’s Flying COW) that draw power from the ground while carrying a fiber data link, and Fiber-Optic Guided Drones (free-ranging FPVs) that carry a 5–20…
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Google plans to merge ChromeOS into Android, creating a single OS across phones, tablets, and laptops, with Chromebooks and tablets running Android and a desktop-optimized Android with multi-window UI. Apple’s iOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass, which faced beta backlash, saw Beta 2 increase contrast and Beta 3 nearly remove the effect, and adds features like…
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OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out…
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SpaceX launched a secret Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral on July 13, 2025 at 1:04 a.m. EDT carrying Israel’s Dror-1 satellite, described as a $200 million “smartphone in space” and marking Falcon 9’s 500th flight with the booster’s 13th successful landing on a droneship. China prepared the Tianzhou-9 cargo mission to Tiangong by rolling…
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On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks.…
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China publicly unveiled the Shenyang J-35 stealth fighter in 2025, with at least two J-35 prototypes seen at the SAC aircraft plant signaling low-rate production and a land-based J-35A variant. An upgraded J-15T naval fighter was revealed, featuring new indigenous engines, catapult launch capability for China’s carrier Fujian, an AESA radar, and compatibility with PL-10…
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