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China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025 (Ling Xin/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/ar

Exclusive | Trouble in orbit? China’s Starlink rival faces long delays amid rocket shortage
A shortage of rockets and competition for launch resources appear to be putting the mega-constellation’s targets in doubt.

A majority of Americans disapproves of Trump's Iran airstrikes, CNN poll finds (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/trump-iran-strikes-poll-cnn-ssrs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p16#a250624p16

A nice and positive read, thanks @… for sharing it!
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/large-scale-illegal-wildlife-shops-in-laos-found-scamming-chinese-tourists/

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — “No coffee, no coffee,” repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and the machine gun slung over his shoulder. Few cafés in the sleepy Laotian tourist town of Luang Prabang boast armed guards, but Kin Liao Coffee is not the average café. While […]

Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review work (Sarah Owermohle/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fda-ai-elsa-drug-regulation-makary

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies
Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.

Bondi briefed Trump that his name was in Epstein files (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/bondi-trump-epstein-list-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p2#a250724p2

At its Discover 2025 conference, HPE unveiled HPE CloudOps Software, GreenLake Intelligence, which can deploy AI agents across its hybrid cloud stack, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/…

HPE launches GreenLake Intelligence, adds AI agents throughout hybrid cloud stack
HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE. At its flagship Discover 2025 conference, HPE showcased its new branding as well as play for AI workloads. The big picture from HPE is that hybrid IT operations, networking, storage and AI operations can be largely turnkey via AI agents.

Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/leena-ai-anno…

Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE
Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE

Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-repair-demand-banned-nv…

Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertain…

Women power China's $1bn romance gaming market
Fewer taboos for female gamers lead to hits like Love and Deepspace