NASDAQ:GOOGL 7 August 2025 - 11 August 2025

HSBC trades near record high after Google Cloud AI tie-up
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HSBC trades near record high after Google Cloud AI tie-up

HSBC shares rose 0.13% to 1,411.40p in London at 09:15 BST, near their 52-week high. The bank announced a multi-year AI partnership with Google Cloud, aiming for over 200 new use cases in two years. UK inflation held at 2.8% in May ahead of the Bank of England’s rate decision. The FTSE 100 slipped 0.18% to 10,475.54.
June 17, 2026
How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption
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No Peeking: How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption

Major cloud providers expanded confidential computing in 2024–2025, enabling encrypted data processing on CPUs and GPUs with hardware TEEs such as Intel SGX, AMD SEV, and NVIDIA H100. Microsoft, Google, AWS, and IBM now offer confidential VMs and enclaves with attestation and key management. EU DORA and NIST CSF 2.0 drove adoption. ABI Research forecasts the market reaching $160 billion by 2032.
August 11, 2025
How Large Language Models Are Reshaping Business, Coding, and Automation
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The AI Revolution Is Here: How Large Language Models Are Reshaping Business, Coding, and Automation

By 2025, 95% of U.S. companies are using AI, with over 60% of brand owners deploying generative AI in marketing. ChatGPT reached 1 million users in five days after launch. Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic released major models in 2023–2024, including GPT-4 Turbo and Gemini. AI agents could automate over 8 million U.S. operational jobs, affecting the $250 billion BPO sector.
August 10, 2025
NPUs vs. TPUs
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NPUs vs. TPUs: How On-Device AI Is Supercharging Your Gadgets in 2025

NVIDIA’s Drive Thor, revealed in 2024, can deliver up to 2000 TOPS for automotive AI. Apple’s A17 Pro Neural Engine reached 35 TOPS in 2023, while Tesla’s HW4 hardware hit up to 250 TOPS. Qualcomm, Google, Intel, AMD, and MediaTek have also launched NPUs and TPUs powering on-device AI for phones, PCs, and cars since 2017.
August 9, 2025
Energy Consumption in Data Centers
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Data Centers Are Power Hogs—These Technologies Are Finally Fixing That

AWS says its Graviton3 processors use 60% less energy than typical x86 cloud chips and now power over half of new AWS servers. Google’s TPUs deliver up to 30 times more performance per watt than GPUs for some AI tasks. Liquid cooling captures up to 80% of chip heat, with over half of new hyperscale servers expected to use it by 2027. MIT researchers cut AI job carbon footprints by up to 90% using smart scheduling tools.
August 7, 2025
Quantum Engineering
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Latest Breakthroughs in Quantum Engineering and What They Mean for Our Future

Google’s 70-qubit Willow chip completed a task in under five minutes that would take a top classical supercomputer 10 septillion years, demonstrating quantum advantage and exponential error reduction. Microsoft and UC Santa Barbara built the first topological qubits in the 8-qubit Majorana 1 processor. IBM now operates quantum chips with over 400 qubits and plans a 1,121-qubit chip. Northwestern engineers teleported quantum information over 30 km of live fiber.
August 7, 2025
Faster-Than-Light Communication
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Breaking the Universe’s Speed Limit: The Quest for Faster-Than-Light Communication

The speed of light in vacuum is 299,792 km/s, and relativity forbids information from exceeding it. In 2023, UK researchers proposed “Hyperwave” communication using warp bubbles for superluminal data transfer, but technical barriers persist. In July 2024, physicists argued tachyons could be consistent if future states affect the present, renewing debate over faster-than-light particles.
August 7, 2025
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