World Economic Forum (June 29, 2025): This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:15 Top technologies to watch in 2025 – From digital trust to clean energy, 2025 is seeing breakthrough innovations with wide-ranging impact. Here are five of the most promising technologies this year.

2:50 How to close the gender gap in tech – Ayumi Moore Aoki is CEO of Women in Tech Global, an organization that works to increase gender equality in STEM. She says that amid all the talk of what AI can do, we must also consider what it cannot.

6:09 This robot could change all factories – Meet CyRo, a 3-armed robot designed to handle objects with the dexterity of a human – without the need for pre-programming. Its adaptive vision system mimics the human eye, allowing it to operate under varying lighting and handle tricky materials like glass or reflective surfaces.

7:33 Start-up plans data centres in space – As AI energy demands soar, one pioneering start-up is taking data infrastructure off the planet. Starcloud is building space data centres to tap into the vast, uninterrupted solar energy available in orbit.

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