Nvidia Stock Soars to a New Peak
Nvidia’s share price climbed to an all-time high of $155.02 on June 26, 2025, lifting its market capitalization to $3.78 trillion and briefly overtaking Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company. The rally was driven by optimism around a recent U.S.–China trade deal that eased export restrictions on its high-end H20 AI chips, alongside robust quarterly results from key supplier Micron, which reinforced confidence in sustained data-center demand . Read more
Survey: Firms with AI Strategies See Twice the Revenue Growth
Thomson Reuters’ 2025 Future of Professionals report finds that organizations with clearly defined AI strategies are twice as likely to experience AI-driven revenue growth and 3.5 times more likely to reap critical AI benefits—compared to those with only ad hoc adoption approaches. Yet only 22 percent of firms surveyed have a visible, enterprise-wide AI plan, potentially leaving a $32 billion opportunity on the table for U.S. legal and CPA sectors alone . Read more
DDN Honored for AI-Platform Innovation
Data storage specialist DDN® won the “AI Platform Innovation Award” at the 2025 AI Breakthrough Awards for its AI-native platform, recognized for powering hyperscale AI and generative-AI workloads with massively parallel architecture and an integrated software ecosystem that accelerates model training and inference workflows . Read more
Microsoft’s ‘Maia’ AI Chip Faces Delay
Microsoft’s next-generation AI processor, code-named Maia, has been pushed back by at least six months from its planned 2025 rollout to 2026. Production challenges, unanticipated design changes, staffing limitations, and high turnover, are cited for the delay, which may slow Microsoft’s roadmap for embedding advanced AI acceleration across its cloud services . Read more
Google’s Veo 3 Video Generator Stirs Misinformation Fears
Google DeepMind’s new Veo 3 tool, publicly launched in May, can produce eight-second synthetic videos from text prompts that are nearly indistinguishable from real footage. In tests by Al Jazeera, Veo 3 generated convincing scenes of protests and fabricated missile strikes, underscoring concerns that high-fidelity video generators, initially lacking robust watermarking, could accelerate the spread of deepfake misinformation . Read more