On July 9-10, 2025, Nvidia's market capitalization approached $4 trillion, driven by AI growth, as CEO Jensen Huang met with former President Trump to discuss potential easing of US export restrictions on Chinese semiconductor technology. Nvidia's stock rose 2.34% on the New York Stock Exchange.

On July 9, 2025, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 7, featuring a 4.2mm thickness when open and an 8.9mm thickness when folded, with a 200MP camera, and the Z Flip 7, featuring a larger 6.9-inch display, with KDDI launching them on August 1, 2025.

On July 9, 2025, Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Flip7, featuring a larger 4.1-inch second display and a 6.9-inch primary internal screen, and the Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, priced at $900, with the Z Flip 7 launching at $1,100 and shipping on July 25.

On July 10, 2025, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Watch 8, starting at $349.99, and the Watch 8 Classic, starting at $499.99, featuring an 11% thinner design, enhanced screen brightness, and improved health management functions, powered by Samsung’s 3nm Exynos W1000 chip and running on Wear OS 6, and available on July 25, 2025.

Apple is developing a foldable iPhone, targeting a 2026 launch, featuring a flexible, crease-less display, with OLED screens supplied by Samsung Display, and expected to cost around $2,000, with Apple planning to sell six to eight million units in the first year.

On July 10, 2025, Meta hired Ruoming Pang, previously with Apple's AI models team, with a compensation package exceeding $200 million, as part of Meta's strategy to build a superintelligence team, which also includes Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.

On July 9, 2025, Google expanded its 'Circle to Search' feature, including AI Mode, which allows users to access advanced reasoning capabilities, and gaming assistance, available on supported Android devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7.

On July 9, 2025, Google launched Gemini AI for Wear OS smartwatches, including the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series and the Pixel Watch, replacing Google Assistant and offering faster, more conversational interactions, with support for devices from Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi.

On July 10, 2025, xAI launched Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy, competitors to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, but the launch was overshadowed by antisemitic content from Grok's official X account, leading to content deletion and account restriction.

Google's Gemini app, specifically the Veo 3 feature, allows users to generate short videos from images, creating eight-second videos with sound, available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and including watermarks to indicate AI generation.

Google's search dominance is threatened by AI chatbots, leading to a decline in Safari searches, with Apple exploring integrating AI search engines into Safari and considering OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Anthropic as replacements.

Amazon is considering increasing its investment in Anthropic by billions of dollars to strengthen their AI partnership and maintain its position as a major shareholder, with Amazon's cumulative investment potentially reaching $8 billion, exceeding Google's $3 billion investment.

Apple developed a foundation model using behavioral signals from wearable devices to enhance health predictions, trained on over 2.5 billion hours of wearable data from 162,000 individuals, and demonstrating strong performance across diverse real-world applications, including flagging health conditions with up to 92% accuracy.

Google Photos is preparing to introduce a new Remix feature that uses generative AI to create short video clips from still images, with options for animation styles, including 'Subtle movements,' 'Go wild,' and 'I’m feeling lucky,' and a more modern and clear interface.

Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-based browser for subscribers, challenging Google Chrome, featuring Perplexity's AI search engine and Comet Assistant, which automates tasks and summarizes content, with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas aiming to bypass Chrome.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent letters to Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI in July 2025, alleging their AI chatbots distort facts and discriminate against President Trump regarding his antisemitism ranking, demanding answers and warning the companies may be violating Missouri's consumer protection laws.

On July 10, 2025, the EU presented a Code of Practice for generative AI models, focusing on transparency, copyright, and security, requiring developers to document their models by August 2, 2025, and detailing training content and assessing misuse risks, affecting companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

On July 10, 2025, UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle called for global tech giants to bring their latest innovations and more investment to the UK, partnering with Google Cloud to modernize IT infrastructure and improve digital capabilities in public services, including the NHS.

Google is building the Sol transatlantic fiber optic cable, connecting Spain to North Florida, with landing points in the Azores and Bermuda, aiming to increase data center network capacity, improve reliability, and reduce latency for Google users and Google Cloud customers worldwide, including support for AI.

On July 9-10, 2025, Kazakhstan launched its most powerful supercomputer, the Alemcloud National Supercomputer Center, with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attending, reaching 2 exaFLOPS in FP8 calculations and supporting AI and digital technology development.

TSMC reported strong financial results, driven by AI demand, with Q2 sales reaching a record high of NT$933.8 billion, up 11.26% from Q1 and 38.6% year-over-year, and H1 2025 sales reaching 1.77 trillion Taiwan dollars (60.8 billion US dollars), a 40% increase YoY.

Apple's 2026 product roadmap includes the M5 MacBook Pro, M4 iPad Air, new MacBook Air, A19 iPhone 17e, and a new Mac external display, with the M5 MacBook Pro delayed from late 2025 to 2026 and having the same design as the current model.

Huawei is attempting to export its Ascend 910B AI chips to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand, to challenge NVIDIA, contacting potential customers about purchasing its older-generation Ascend 910B processors.

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro models, expected in fall 2026, will maintain 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch display sizes and feature under-display Face ID, eliminating the Dynamic Island and leaving only a pinhole for the selfie camera, with RAM rumored to increase from 8GB to 12GB.

On July 9-10, 2025, Google released new AI features for Pixel devices in a Pixel Drop, with Pixel 9 Pro owners in India getting a free one-year Google AI Pro subscription, unlocking the Veo 3 video generation tool, Flow AI filmmaking tool, and higher limits for image-to-video creation in Whisk.

On July 9, 2025, Google rolled out AI upgrades across Android, prioritizing Samsung devices, with Gemini integration for Wear OS watches and enhanced Circle to Search with AI Mode, and the new Galaxy Z Fold7, Flip7, and Watch 8 come pre-installed with Android 16 and Wear OS 6.

On July 9, 2025, Google introduced a 'System Services' page in Android settings, allowing users to view, update, disable, or uninstall core background services, located in Settings -> Privacy and security -> System services, and available on Android 6 and newer.

In July 2025, Google launched AI-powered advertising tools in India after the repeal of the 6% 'Google tax', aiming to boost digital advertising capabilities, with Google's gross ad revenue in India increasing 11% year-over-year to $3.6 billion in fiscal year 2024.

In the fall of 2025, iOS 26 will bring major updates to Apple's in-car experience, including a significant overhaul of CarPlay with a new design, widgets, and Live Activities, and Apple CarPlay Ultra expanding CarPlay capabilities to both the car's touchscreen and dashboard.

Apple announced improvements to its Notes and Reminders apps with macOS 26, iOS 26, and watchOS 26, with the Notes app available on the Apple Watch for the first time and able to record phone calls and automatically save transcripts, and the Reminders app using Apple Intelligence to create task and shopping lists from emails or notes.

Microsoft is testing a new policy called 'Remove Default Microsoft Store Packages' in Windows 11, allowing users to remove pre-installed apps, including 'Feedback Hub', 'Microsoft 365 Copilot', 'Xbox Gaming App', and Teams, simplifying customizing Windows deployments, especially for organizations using Intune.

On July 10, 2025, Apple announced macOS 26, which introduces a redesigned user interface and new functionalities, including three new apps for Mac: Games, Journal, and Phone, and updates to existing apps like Photos, Messages, Reminders, Passwords, and Notes with new features and Apple Intelligence integration.

CIOs are using AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl by building bespoke applications, as the average enterprise uses 100-300 SaaS applications, leading to fragmented processes and spiralling costs, with AI, low-code, and automation allowing CIOs to reclaim control.

As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft will cease providing security updates for Windows 10 PCs unless they are enrolled in the Extended Security Updates program, providing two free options to upgrade 'incompatible' Windows 10 PCs to Windows 11.