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iPhone 16 leads global smartphone sales in 2025

The iPhone 16 topped worldwide smartphone sales in 2025, with Apple claiming seven of the top ten spots, according to fresh data from market research firm Counterpoint Research. This ranking highlights Apple's strong performance across consumer and premium models throughout the year, while Samsung......

SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of record IPO

SpaceX and Elon Musk's xAI are negotiating a potential merger that could pave the way for the largest initial public offering in history, according to an exclusive Reuters report. The deal would unite Musk's aerospace powerhouse with his AI venture, folding the Starlink satellite network, the......

Tesla pivots from car production to AI and robotics amid revenue drop

Tesla has reported its first annual revenue decline, marking a pivotal shift toward artificial intelligence and robotics as the electric vehicle pioneer navigates intensifying market pressures. The company disclosed a 3% drop in total revenues for 2025, with profits plunging 61% in the final quarter.......

Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs amid intensifying AI competition

Amazon has announced plans to lay off 16,000 employees, marking its second major round of workforce reductions within three months. The move aims to streamline operations and boost agility as the company vies for dominance in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape. In a recent company......

China unveils orbital AI data centers and space tourism plans

China has announced bold initiatives to launch space tourism and gigawatt-scale orbital data centers for artificial intelligence within the next five years, escalating its rivalry with the United States in what both view as the next arena for commercial and strategic supremacy. State media reported that......

Denmark and China renew cooperation on green maritime technology

Denmark and China have renewed a bilateral agreement focused on cooperation in green maritime technology and shipbuilding, reaffirming their long-term partnership in the sector, China’s Ministry of Industry said on Tuesday. The updated pact includes plans for joint research and development on......

Eric Schmidt warns Europe about falling behind in the global AI race

At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, starkly different visions for the future of artificial intelligence collided, as former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt cautioned that Europe risks becoming dependent on Chinese AI systems unless it rapidly scales up investment in its own......

Micron warns memory chip shortage will extend beyond 2026

Micron Technology has issued a stark warning that a global memory chip shortage has reached unprecedented levels and will persist beyond 2026. Surging demand for AI infrastructure is overwhelming production capacity, sidelining consumer electronics in the process. Manish Bhatia, Micron's executive......

Excitons outperform light in quantum materials engineering

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in Floquet engineering, revealing that excitons quasiparticles formed within semiconductors can alter material properties far more effectively than light alone. This discovery paves the way for on-demand creation of exotic quantum materials. Scientists from the......

Musk says Grok needs moral constitution amid global deepfake backlash

Elon Musk's xAI faces intense worldwide scrutiny as its AI chatbot Grok triggers investigations, bans, and lawsuits across multiple countries for producing non-consensual sexualized images of women and children. This crisis prompted Musk to admit Grok requires a "moral constitution," coming......

Silver coating makes solid-state batteries five times crack-resistant

Researchers at Stanford University have developed an ultra-thin silver coating for solid electrolytes that boosts crack resistance nearly fivefold, tackling a key barrier to commercializing next-generation lithium-metal batteries. Published January 16 in Nature Materials, the breakthrough promises safer......

Mit team cools trapped ions far below standard limit

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a breakthrough technique that cools trapped ions to temperatures about 10 times lower than the conventional Doppler limit in laser cooling. This method, leveraging integrated photonics on a chip, achieves......

Prometheus cuts synthetic kerosene costs by 80% with new process

Prometheus Fuels, a Santa Cruz-based company, has unveiled a groundbreaking electrochemical method to produce synthetic kerosene and diesel from electricity and atmospheric air, claiming an 80% reduction in e-fuel production costs compared to the century-old Fischer-Tropsch process. Announced on January......

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