AnewZ Morning Brief - 18 October, 2025
Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for October 18th, covering the latest developments you need to know....
Foxconn predicts AI server revenue will surpass iPhone revenue within two years, possibly as soon as this year. As a key Nvidia supplier, Foxconn is capitalizing on booming AI demand, with AI servers set to make up over half of its total server revenue in 2024.
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and Apple’s primary iPhone supplier, anticipates that its server revenue will surpass its iPhone revenue within two years. According to Taiwan’s Central News Agency, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu suggested this shift could even occur as early as this year.
Foxconn plays a pivotal role in manufacturing Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence servers, including the GB200 and GB300 series. Liu confirmed that while Foxconn does not produce all Nvidia systems, it handles the majority of them. Speaking on a live podcast at Nvidia’s GTC developer conference, Liu reaffirmed the company’s strong position in the AI server market.
In its recent earnings call, Foxconn projected its AI server revenue to reach T$1 trillion ($30.29 billion) in 2024, making up over half of its total server revenue. The company’s cloud and networking revenue is set to rival that of its smart consumer electronics division, which includes iPhones. In 2024, 30% of Foxconn’s revenue stemmed from cloud and networking products, while 46% came from smart consumer electronics. This shift underscores the growing demand for AI infrastructure worldwide.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
The war in Ukraine has reached a strategic impasse, and it seems that the conflict will not be solved by military means. This creates a path toward one of two alternatives: either a “frozen” phase that can last indefinitely or a quest for a durable political regulation.
In the first nine months of this year, 10.2 billion cubic metres of gas were produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, according to operational data released by the Ministry of Energy.
Apple’s latest smartphone, the iPhone Air, sold out within minutes of its launch in China on Friday, highlighting the brand’s enduring appeal among Chinese consumers despite growing competition from local Android makers.
Wall Street closed lower on Thursday as renewed concerns about regional banks and intensifying U.S.-China trade tensions weighed on investor sentiment, pulling major indexes off recent record highs.
Giorgio Armani's deputy managing director, Giuseppe Marsocci, is set to be appointed chief executive of the Italian fashion house, a source said on Thursday, confirming a local media report.
Tesla has told the Delaware Supreme Court that Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package should have been restored last year through a shareholder vote, as the company appeals a lower court ruling that rescinded the CEO’s record compensation.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
What is your opinion on this topic?
Leave the first comment