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Broadcom scrapped plans to invest in a Spain microchip factory valued at up to $1 billion, derailing talks backed by €12 billion in EU recovery funds. Ericsson posted Q2 2025 adjusted operating profit of 7.0 billion kronor, beating a 6.1 billion forecast, but warned US tariffs could squeeze margins and may force production shifts. Tesla…
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In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source…
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Meta’s AI power play: the first mega-cluster, Prometheus, comes online in 2026, with a second (Hyperion) scaling to 5 gigawatts later, and Zuckerberg boasts that one cluster covers a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint. Zuckerberg personally leads a “talent raid” to hire top engineers after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, and in 2025…
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Perplexity’s Comet is a Chromium-based AI browser available today to Perplexity Max subscribers and waitlisted users, with Windows and macOS support and mobile versions in development. Comet’s AI automation sidebar can automatically compare shipping options across online stores to find the fastest shipping or best return policies. xAI’s Grok 4 is now accessible to individual…
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Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion market value in July 2025, with shares peaking at $164.42 on July 9 and closing that day at about a $3.97 trillion market cap. Nvidia guided about $45 billion in quarterly revenue for Q2 FY2026 (the quarter ending July). Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU with the…
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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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Samsung plans to unveil the Galaxy S26 series in early 2026 at an Unpacked event likely in mid-January or early February, with market availability by late January or early February following the S25’s January 22, 2025 launch. The S26 lineup is expected to drop the S26 Plus and introduce a Galaxy S26 Edge to bridge…
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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7 and Galaxy Z Flip7 in Summer 2025; Fold7 is the thinnest and lightest large-format foldable at 8.9 mm folded. Fold7 features a reengineered hinge that reduces the display crease and a 200 MP main camera—the first 200 MP on Samsung foldables. Fold7 includes an 8-inch inner display for multitasking,…
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Geely’s Zeekr is rumored to be preparing a hypercar with over 2,000 horsepower, an upgrade to the Zeekr 001 FR that currently has 1,300 horsepower. Lucid Motors’ Air Grand Touring set a Guinness World Record for the longest electric-vehicle journey without recharging, covering about 1,205 km from St. Moritz to Munich. BYD will start assembling…
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