NASA deployed the WB-57 and UAVSAR-equipped Gulfstream III to support Texas flood recovery, delivering high-resolution real-time data despite persistent cloud cover, with over 110 fatalities and more than 170 missing. The European Launcher Challenge finalists are Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and Orbex, each eligible for contracts up to €169 million. Airbus…
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Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial.…
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FCAS/SCAF aims to field a “system of systems” including a Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) with remote carrier drones and a combat cloud, targeting 2040 in-service and costs exceeding €100 billion. The United States’ NGAD is a “family of systems” with a manned core fighter plus loyal wingman drones, potentially costing around $300 million per fighter and…
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SpaceX operates over 7,000 satellites and posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 2024, with a target valuation of $400 billion to $4 trillion in upcoming funding rounds. Starlink aims for 22,000 satellites by 2030 and could capture 15% of global communications spending. Ovzon secured a SEK 72 million order from Sweden’s FMV for mobile satellite…
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Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieved 85.5% diagnostic accuracy on NEJM benchmarks, outperforming doctors. Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI could replace up to 50% of US office workers, with accountants and cashiers most at risk. Turkey banned Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot after antisemitic outputs, marking the country’s first AI ban. The European Union…
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An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent…
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SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9…
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In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using…
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The European Union’s AI Act will be fully enforced by mid-2026, establishing strict rules for high-risk AI applications across member states. Capgemini agreed to acquire WNS Holdings for $3.3 billion to accelerate autonomous AI for enterprise operations. At the BRICS summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged multilateral AI governance and announced plans for an independent…
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Windows 11 overtakes Windows 10, reaching 50.88% of Windows devices by July 2025 according to StatCounter. Nvidia’s market capitalization tops Apple at $3.92 trillion as AI chip demand drives growth, with the Blackwell platform fueling expansion. OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 this summer, aiming for AGI and combining elements from GPT-4o and GPT-4. The interstellar…
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