Goldman Sachs is integrating Cognition's Devin AI coding assistant to handle routine engineering tasks, supervised by human developers. The bank plans to deploy hundreds or thousands of Devins to assist over 10,000 human software developers, improving productivity and allowing focus on bigger problems.

In July 2025, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a new open-source large language model with 1 trillion parameters, optimized for agentic applications. It is available via web, mobile, and an OpenAI-compatible API, priced at 4 yuan per million input tokens and 16 yuan per million output tokens.

On July 11, 2025, Samsung released the Z Flip7, featuring a 6.9-inch display, a 4300mAh battery, and starting at $1099 (7999 yuan). It includes a larger 4.1-inch FlexWindow and is powered by the Exynos 2500 processor.

Meta is aggressively recruiting top AI talent, including offering $200 million to poach Ruoming Pang, a former AI expert from Apple, to build Meta's Superintelligence Labs and compete with other AI leaders.

SpaceX invested $2 billion in Elon Musk's xAI as part of a $5 billion equity round, with the Grok chatbot now supporting Starlink customer service and being considered for Tesla's Optimus robots.

Apple's Wearable Behavior Model (WBM) uses data from Apple Watch and iPhone to predict health conditions, achieving 92% accuracy in pregnancy detection and 82% in diabetes prediction, trained on data from over 160,000 participants.

On July 11, AWS and POSCO Group announced a 'manufacturing AX collaboration' to expand the use of AI in industrial settings, with POSCO DX developing AI agents and an engineering automation platform based on RAG systems optimized for industrial sites, utilizing AWS's generative AI platform 'Bedrock'.

Meta Platforms acquired PlayAI, a voice AI startup focused on human-like voice generation, with the PlayAI team joining Meta Superintelligence Labs to enhance audio content creation.

The UN's ITU released a report urging stronger measures to detect AI-driven deepfakes and misinformation, recommending content distributors use digital verification tools and developing standards for watermarking AI videos.

OpenAI is enhancing ChatGPT's memory feature, making it more robust and accessible, including on its free tier, allowing ChatGPT to have more memories of you by using past conversation context for personalized responses.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, held in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, will feature a session on the future of AI hardware, with Raquel Urtasun, CEO of Waabi, and Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik, discussing AI hardware's role in humanoid robotics and autonomous vehicles.

On July 11, 2025, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy tested Amazon's new Alexa Plus, which uses generative AI, noting some flaws including incorrect information and issues with smart home routine execution.

A United Nations research institute created two AI-powered avatars, Amina and Abdalla, to educate people about refugee issues, with Amina representing a fictional woman from Sudan and Abdalla a fictional soldier.

Agentic AI enhances cross-border payments by automating processes and adding intelligence, speeding up transactions, simplifying integration, and improving compliance.

Google says it automatically attaches small visual watermarks to nearly all content created with its Gemini app, which includes Veo.

Tech firms are pushing for federal AI regulation after a failed GOP effort to block state AI privacy and security laws, leading to calls for consistent standards.

The article explores whether AI can address content moderation challenges, suggesting that new AI tools could shift the power to filter social media content from platforms to individual users.

Helios, an AI startup, raised $4 million in seed funding for its AI operating system, Proxi, aimed at public policy professionals, with the funding round led by Unusual Ventures.

Artificial intelligence is transforming wedding planning by providing couples and planners with useful tools such as event suggestions, budgeting, and virtual styling assistants, with some couples using AI to manage tasks like seating charts and vendor queries.

Samsung has confirmed that default Galaxy AI features will remain free to use, but the company may begin charging for Galaxy AI from the end of 2025, potentially introducing a paid subscription for premium AI experiences.

Microsoft and OpenAI are renegotiating their contract, focusing on a clause that could restrict Microsoft's access to OpenAI's new AI models if they achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

U.S. Senators Jim Banks and Elizabeth Warren cautioned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his China visit, urging him to avoid companies undermining U.S. chip export controls or linked to China's military.

On July 11, 2025, Bernstein's Stacy Rasgon stated that Nvidia's China ban effectively hands the country's AI market to Huawei.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching its European Sovereign Cloud initiative this year, operating independently to address Europe's push for technological sovereignty due to data security concerns.

Microsoft Corp. investors are pressuring the company to assess how effectively it identifies customers who misuse its artificial intelligence tools, following reports of the Israeli military’s use of Microsoft software during its war in Gaza.

Nvidia shares reached a record high, but Seaport Research Partners' Jay Goldberg, the only analyst with a sell call, discussed his underperform rating, citing concerns about supply chain issues and potential constraints.

Engadget highlighted top Amazon Prime Day 2025 deals on tech products, including Sony WH-CH720N headphones for $78, Samsung 55-inch The Frame QLED 4K smart TV for $798, and Dyson V15 Detect Plus for $570.

As of July 11, 2025, the Acer Aspire 14 AI laptop is on sale for $550 at Amazon and $500 at Costco as a Prime Day deal, featuring an Intel Lunar Lake CPU, good performance, and long battery life.

The US-backed National Vulnerability Database (NVD) faces a backlog of 25,000+ vulnerabilities, while OpenAI's planned $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf collapses over Microsoft IP concerns, leading Google to hire Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan and researchers for $2.4 billion.

Apple is set to release iOS 26, the latest version of its iPhone software, which brings major improvements to several of its most-used apps, including Messages, Phone, and Maps, featuring a new Liquid Glass appearance and redesigned interfaces.

ASUS unveiled the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Gold Edition at Bilibili World 2025, priced at $500,000, featuring a gold bar with an integrated graphics processor and made with 5 kg of gold, weighing 7.2 kg with 32 GB of GDDR7 memory.

Microsoft is testing Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) in Windows 11, a self-healing technology that automatically connects to Microsoft servers to fix critical boot errors by downloading patches, expected to be available to all Windows 11 users in the 25H2 update.

Apple is planning multiple product launches in late 2025 and early 2026, including a possible October 2025 launch for the M5 iPad Pro refresh, and early 2026 launches for the iPhone 17e, updated iPads, and MacBooks.

Oakley and Meta have released the Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses, priced at $499, featuring a 12MP camera, up to eight hours of battery life, and access to Meta AI, celebrating 50 years of Oakley design with Meta innovation.

Jio Platforms launched JioPC in India, a cloud-based virtual desktop service, to turn TVs into PCs, available via set-top box and bundled with Reliance Jio’s broadband or separately for INR 5,499 (approximately $64).

Rumors suggest the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be 8.725 mm thick and feature a repositioned Apple logo, with camera upgrades including a 48-megapixel telephoto camera and a 24-megapixel front-facing camera, and support for 8K video recording.

This week, Samsung teased its trifold phone expected to launch in 2025, Ikea announced new Matter smart home devices and ended its partnership with Sonos, and Hugging Face unveiled the Reachy Mini robot.

Leaked European prices for the Google Pixel 10 series have surfaced, with the Pixel 10 expected to start at €899 (128GB) and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold ranging from €1,899 to €2,676.