$11.8 billion will be spent this Black Friday

Holiday shoppers push past last year

The number that jumps first is $12.5 million a minute.

Adobe says Americans spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, up from $10.8 billion last year, with Cyber Monday projected to reach $14.2 billion. Salesforce adds a global view, citing $79 billion spent worldwide and $18 billion in the US.

But slower order volumes and a 7 percent price bump hint at a softer core, even as AI driven recommendations show up in nearly every shopping cart. The glow of record spend sits on top of thinner demand masked by higher prices.

Retail traffic paints a split screen, with one firm calling a 3.4 percent dip in footfall while another sees a 1.17 percent rise and a sharp 7.9 percent jump in department stores. The data is noisy, and the industry is squinting at it in real time.

Somewhere in that blur, a shopper is tapping “place order” while the kettle clicks off in the background, and the season starts to reveal its real shape.

A respiratory model that breathes back

The striking part is how the CT scan stops feeling like a still image.

LTTS is rolling out an AI driven digital twin for lung diagnostics, built with NVIDIA’s MONAI and TensorRT stack and timed for its RSNA 2025 debut. The system turns CT data into a 3D map of airways, vessels, lobes and lesions, then guides bronchoscopy with real time planning tools.

Engineers are trying to move beyond static imaging, shaping a model that updates as the patient changes, and that shift carries weight for conditions like lung cancer and COPD. The platform leans on LTTS’ navigation tech and NVIDIA’s acceleration to shrink inference times while keeping visuals crisp enough for clinical work.

Hospitals looking to modernize their procedure rooms will see this as a bridge between imaging and intervention, though bringing it into everyday workflows will take time, budgets and some trust in AI assisted navigation. The idea of a living model will test how far clinicians are ready to let software steer.

Somewhere in a dim lab, a rendering spins on a monitor, its soft whirr hinting at how close the virtual lung is to feeling real.

Micron plants a long fuse in Hiroshima

A 1.5 trillion yen build carries a certain hum when you read it before sunrise.

Micron is preparing a new HBM plant on its Hiroshima site, with construction set for May and shipments expected around 2028. Tokyo is backing the move with as much as 500 billion yen as it works to restart its semiconductor base.

The long runway tells you how bruising the HBM race has become, especially with SK Hynix setting the pace and Taiwan still holding most of Micron’s muscle. Yet Micron wants a safer map and a deeper seat in the supply chain that feeds AI servers and data centers.

This single expansion folds into a larger pattern, where Japan courts Micron, TSMC, and IBM-linked projects in a bid to rebuild an industry it once dominated but let drift. The political calculus is obvious, but the manufacturing gap takes years to close.

Somewhere inside that future factory, the first wafer will drop onto a cold steel tray, and the clock will start again.

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