Monthly Archives: July 2025

Rocket Lab stock jumps 8%, building on strong two-month rally

Since its debut on the Nasdaq in August 2021 under the ticker RKLB, its market value has swelled to over $19 billion.

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department

The DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of AI solutions.

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Malaysia will require trade permits for U.S. AI chips

Malaysia is introducing new export restrictions on U.S. AI chips in an attempt to prevent these chips from being smuggled into China.

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.

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GM’s Final EV Battery Strategy Copies China’s Playbook: Super Cheap Cells

General Motors’ homemade version of the low-cost power option favored by China’s auto industry will hit three years before its super energy-dense tech arrives—and could bring affordable US EVs sooner.

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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Meta Built a Data Center Next Door. The Neighbors’ Water Taps Went Dry.

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.

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Prime Day event drove over $24B in U.S. e-commerce sales, gen AI traffic was up 3,300%

Amazon’s Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase in retail traffic driven by generative AI products, including chatbots and browsers. According to a post-Prime Day analysis by Adobe … Continue reading

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads. The announcement marks … Continue reading

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How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made

The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of the grid as demand for electricity increases.

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