What’s New Today: Nvidia hits a $3.92 trillion valuation, surpassing Apple and Microsoft, driven by soaring AI chip demand and market optimism.
Fast-Track Insights: Natech raises $33 million to expand its modular banking tech, empowering smaller institutions and driving Europe’s embedded finance and BaaS evolution.
Here’s a quick rundown of the biggest tech headlines making waves today. Let's dive into the day's top tech stories, from Nvidia's Top Market Valuation to business school graduates for leadership roles.
Nvidia entered the record books on July 3, when it reached a market valuation of $3.92 trillion, surpassing the previous record set by Apple. With AI at its back, Nvidia's chips are powering leading AI models, outperforming rivals such as Microsoft and Google. Since April, Nvidia's stock has gone up by 68%, making it the most valuable public company in the world and surpassing the market capitalizations of all companies listed in Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Initially, it was a gaming company, and since 2021, its value has increased eightfold, establishing a name for itself in the AI hardware industry.
The Greek FinTech Natech has $33 million in Series B to expand its modular and cloud-native banking platform across Europe. The company serves the needs of small and medium-sized financial institutions by delivering Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions that are affordable and quick to deploy. Founded by Thanasis Navrozoglou, Natech is also the technology behind Snappi, its ECB-licensed neobank. Natech plans to invest this round of funding in scaling the business and marketing, and propel the embedded finance and BaaS revolution across Europe.
According to the 2025 Corporate Recruiters Survey by GMAC, employers worldwide are seeking to hire older students from business schools for leadership positions due to their proficiency in AI, strategic thinking, and adaptability. Despite economic uncertainties, a whopping 99 percent of recruiters feel that business schools do prepare talent for the tech-driven future. Communication, emotional intelligence, and other human-centric skills remain highly valued, and online degrees are gaining increasing acceptance among employers as hiring demand continues to grow across industries for MBA graduates.
AI can outperform humans in terms of speed, memory, and pattern recognition, detecting diseases or analyzing fraud more quickly than a human with near-perfect accuracy. Intellect, in the deepest sense, requires empathy, ethics, and creativity. These are areas where, to date, humans have ruled across the world. AI can imitate the production of art, can mimic human decision-making, but it does not understand emotions, nor does it culturally register. The bright future belongs to the collaboration of humans and AI, further exploiting their strengths through the development of industries and giving new definitions to intelligence, beyond just logic or data.
JPMorgan sets $500 billion as a possible upper limit to the projected growth of the stablecoin market by 2028, thereby disputing bullish forecasts that soar into the $2–4 trillion range. According to this, a negligible 6% share of demand exists for payments, indicating little actual usage in the real world. Consequently, with all the institutional building interest and the government act coming into place, adoption remains scarce and limited to crypto trading. JPMorgan further opined that private stablecoins face regulatory hurdles and consequent consumer acceptance issues that work against them, unlike state-issued e-money, such as China’s e-CNY.