AI-powered EdTech platform Schooligio.ai set to transform global student counselling
One such pioneering platform is Schooligio.ai, a new AI-driven solution built specifically to democratise career and college guidance for high school students. Set to launch globally on August 1, 2025, Schooligio.ai is the brainchild of two veteran counsellors — Caroline Linger and Jose Kumar who have spent decades helping thousands of students secure admissions into top universities, including Stanford, Oxford, MIT, and the Ivy Central.
Their platform blends deep human expertise with the latest advancements in artificial intelligence to offer personalised, ethical, and affordable counselling on a global scale.
Schooligio.ai addresses the rising demand for customised guidance by offering 24/7 mentorship tailored to each student's interests, academic strengths, financial background, and goals. From early career exploration to curating standout college applications, the platform generates step-by-step pathways for every learner. Built to meet international data privacy standards such as FERPA, GDPR, and COPPA, Schooligio ensures a secure and compliant environment for both students and institutions.
The platform doesn't just support students, it's designed to work alongside school counsellors as a powerful assistant. Schooligio.ai automates administrative tasks like progress tracking and report generation, giving educators more time to focus on meaningful student interactions. It also gives parents a transparent view into their child's development and access to reliable scholarship and financial aid information, making it easier for families to plan their academic future.
What makes Schooligio.ai stand out is its commitment to access and equity. While private counselling services remain out of reach for many, Schooligio is built to serve all segments, offering free access to under-resourced schools, scholarships for students in financial need, and low-cost subscriptions for individual learners. Schools around the world can now apply for early access, with student subscriptions opening on the official launch date, August 1.
Schooligio will also be showcased at the upcoming IC3 Annual Conference & Expo, taking place on August 20–21 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. With this year's theme 'Counselling as a Culture,' the event provides a fitting platform to demonstrate how AI and human insight can combine to transform student outcomes.
As AI continues to reshape the global EdTech ecosystem, platforms like Schooligio.ai are setting new benchmarks for what technology can achieve in education.
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AsiaInfo Technologies Expects to Achieve Accelerated Growth from the Three Core Growth Engines in 2025H2, with Full Year Profit Exceeding Last Year[1]
In 2025H1, AI large model application and delivery business achieves explosive growth with revenue and order amount up 76 times and 78 times yoy respectively, demonstrating strong market demand Future p rospects in 2025 H2: The results for 2025H2 is expected to improve significantly compared to the 2025H1, and the Group is determined to achieve its full-year targets. The annual performance is expected to remain stable. In 2025H2, the three core growth engines are projected to achieve accelerated growth, while the revenue decline in the ICT support business is anticipated to narrow significantly. Profit for the year is expected to exceed that of the previous year (excluding the impact of one-off severance compensation due to personnel restructuring optimisation). The Group will adhere to a steady and progressive development strategy, continue to consolidate the foundation of its core telecommunications business to promote a steady recovery of its fundamental operations in ICT support business, and continue to focus on cultivating three core growth engines, including AI large model application and delivery, 5G private network and application, and digital intelligence-driven operation. The Group will also accelerate the pace of signing contracts, to maintain a stable and healthy annual performance. The Board has attached great importance to the shareholders' interests and returns, and after giving due consideration to the Group's business development, profitability, and cash flow level, the Board has recommended the guideline of the final dividend for the year 2025 is 40% of the annual net profit attributable to shareholders. Results h ighlights & business review: In 2025H1, the Group's overall revenue and profit declined due to the effects brought by the ongoing cost-reduction and efficiency-enhancement within the telecommunications sector. The Group managed to effectively control costs through its mature cost control mechanism and optimised personnel restructuring optimisation. - Revenue[2] amounted to approximately RMB2,598 million. - Gross profit was approximately RMB783 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.1%, with a gross profit margin of 30.1%, representing a year-on-year increase of 5.4 percentage points. Net operating cash outflow improved by 35.3% year-on-year. - Net loss was approximately RMB202 million compared to a loss of approximately RMB70 million in the same period of the previous year. Excluding the impact of one-off severance compensation due to personnel restructuring optimisation, net loss was approximately RMB48 million. AI large model application and delivery business achieved explosive growth, with revenue of approximately RMB 26 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 76 times; the order amount for 2025H1 was approximately RMB 70 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 78 times, demonstrating strong market demand. Through collaborations with Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, NVIDIA, AsiaInfo Security and others, the Group has constructed end-to-end industrial large model solutions. Revenue from the 5G private network and application business was approximately RMB47 million; the order amount for 2025H1 was approximately RMB82 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 51.7%, which reflects growth potential in the market. Revenue from the ICT support business was approximately RMB2,118 million, representing a year-on-year decrease of 14.7%. 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However, amid the wave of new AI technologies, the Group's AI large model application and delivery business has achieved explosive growth, while the 5G private network and application business has continued to gain momentum, and it has kept optimising the business structure of digital intelligence-driven operation. Meanwhile, the Group has strengthened internal cost management to support sustainable development, and its business fundamentals will continue to be sound in the long term. To cope with challenges of the ICT support business transformation, the Group implemented a series of cost-reduction and efficiency-enhancing measures proactively, such as personnel restructuring optimisation, applying AI tools to enhance efficiency, strengthening centralised procurement, and the one-stop official consumption platforms, which have achieved significant results in cost control. In 2025H1, gross profit was approximately RMB783 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 6.1%, with a gross profit margin of 30.1%, representing a year-on-year increase of 5.4 percentage points. Net operating cash outflow improved by 35.3% year-on-year. Excluding the impact of one-off severance compensation due to personnel restructuring optimisation, net loss for the period was approximately RMB48 million, and the Group expected that net profit will continue to rebound in the second half of the year ("2025H2"), with full-year profit better than last year. The Board has attached great importance to the shareholders' interests and returns, and after giving due consideration to the Group's business development, profitability, and cash flow level, the Board has recommended the guideline of the final dividend for the year 2025 is 40% of the annual net profit attributable to shareholders. AI Large Model Application and Delivery Business Achieves Explosive Growth In 2025, the industrial application of AI large models witnessed explosive growth. In 2025H1, the Group secured orders worth approximately RMB70 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 78 times. In addition, the Company entered into a framework agreement that accounted for more than RMB40 million with a company. Revenue from the AI large model application and delivery business reached approximately RMB26 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 76 times. Through collaborations with Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, NVIDIA, AsiaInfo Security and others, the Group has constructed end-to-end industrial large model solutions covering energy and power, industrial manufacturing, transportation, smart retail, and other large enterprises. The Group has become a partner in Alibaba Cloud's AI Large Model Galaxy Program, jointly developed nearly 100 projects and created numerous benchmark cases for large model delivery. With a robust pipeline of business opportunities, the Group is driving the industrialisation of large models. 5G Private Network and Application Business Continues to Gain Momentum The Group's 5G private network and application business provides an important emerging telecommunications network for energy industries such as the power and mining industries. By providing customised 5G private network products and advanced industry solutions, as well as offering professional one-stop services and turnkey projects, the Group created differentiation in its competitive advantage and became a leading company in the field of 5G private network. In 2025H1, the Group signed orders for the 5G private network and application business amounted to approximately RMB82 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 51.7%, while revenue amounted to approximately RMB47 million, representing a year-on-year decrease of 26.3%, which was mainly attributable to the delay in some nuclear power orders and the delay in revenue recognition. In 2025H2, the Group will expedite order conversion, which is expected to drive rapid performance growth. In terms of nuclear power, in 2025H1, on the basis of maintaining the continued market leadership of CNNC, the Group has successfully achieved a breakthrough in Huaneng Group and signed a contract for the 5G private network project for units 3 and 4 of the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in Hainan. Up to this point, the Group's nuclear power 5G private network projects have covered 29 units in seven national nuclear power bases, further consolidating its top one position in the market share of nuclear power 5G private network. In 2025H1, the country's investment in the new nuclear power sector exceeded RMB200 billion, and the Group's 5G private network in nuclear power business is expected to grow continuously. In the field of new energy, the Group continues to make efforts in wind power and photovoltaic markets, and has currently covered more than 210 new energy stations and achieved project breakthroughs for a number of energy group customers. In the field of mining, the Group established an associated company with Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Company Limited to explore the new model of "digital and intelligent operation of mines and equipment manufacturing". 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Optimisation of Digital Intelligence-driven Operation Business Structure and Continued Growth in the Non-Telecommunications Industry Leveraging over 30 years of practical experience in business support and data governance in the telecommunications sector, along with an extensive network of industry experts, the Group has expanded its offerings to major industries with large end-user bases, such as finance, automobile and consumer sectors. It provides data operation services based on "data aggregation + scenario insights + AI empowerment", continuously creating and enhancing value for clients. This approach has further strengthened the Group's leading position in the results-based charging commerce models. In the non-telecommunications industry, the Group achieved an overall year-on-year order growth of 18.2% in 2025H1. Among them, orders in the finance sector increased significantly by 48.3% year-on-year, orders in the automobile sector increased by 5.3% year-on-year, and orders in the consumer sector increased by 4.4% year-on-year. In the telecommunications sector, the Group leveraged a "scenario + AI Agent" strategy to enhance operational efficiency of clients and drive business revenue growth. Firstly, through joint innovation with operators, the Group supported clients in implementing value-based operations at scale, securing projects such as an intelligent marketing service assistant agent for operators' household customers, an AI solution advisor for government and enterprise clients, and a frontline AI sales assistant. Secondly, the Group actively integrated the rights resources and technical capabilities of leading internet enterprises, and united with operator customers to develop operational innovations in areas such as households and business enterprise customers, and help customers to generate revenue by obtaining projects such as AI intelligent marketing, AI intelligent recommendation, and the introduction of rights to cooperative operations with a carrier. In 2025H1, revenue from digital intelligence-driven operation business reached approximately RMB408 million, representing a year-on-year decrease of 8.8%, primarily driven by increased cost control efforts by operators. However, the business structure continued to improve, with revenue from results-based and commission-based charging models accounting for 33.4%, up by 6.7 percentage points year-on-year. The Group will accelerate order conversion and revenue realisation in 2025H2 to ensure the achievement of full-year targets. ICT Support Business Proactively Responds to Industry Transformation and Accelerates Expansion in New Customers and Projects The Group has clearly positioned itself as a software service provider, acknowledging the structural adjustments occurring in the traditional operator industry while basing itself on its operator's base of business, stabilising the ICT support business in the telecommunications sector, and laying a solid foundation for the Group's overall business enhancement and transformation. In 2025H1, the Group's ICT support business maintained a leading market share, with revenue reaching approximately RMB2,118 million. However, due to factors such as reduced overall investment by operators, revenue declined by 14.7% year-on-year. To offset the downward pressure in the BSS business, the Group implemented a series of measures, including AI empowerment, expansion into new services for existing customers, expansion of new clients, and joint market development in the government and enterprise sector. Meanwhile, the Group continued to restructure its organisational model from an "olive-shaped" to a "pyramid-shaped" structure to reduce delivery costs. The Group also leveraged AI large models and other new tools to empower internal operations to achieve cost reductions and enhance operational efficiency in order to significantly narrow the decline in full-year revenue of the ICT support business. In 2025H1, the Group accelerated the application of AI in the BSS and OSS businesses, and 48 new projects were signed, including the R&D project of an operator's intelligent platform and the project of technological innovation platform, etc. The deployment of AI tool platform exceeded 10 provinces, and more than 10 metahuman projects have been implemented, including product sales and assisted acceptance. In addition, the Group has been steadily sourcing new customers and projects, the first phase of the HKT project has been successfully launched. In terms of joint market development in the government and enterprise sectors, the Group focused on data governance, trusted data space, public services, low altitude economy and other areas, and collaborated with operators to open up the market and break the ceiling of traditional business. Several projects have been successfully delivered, including data governance of an energy central enterprise, digital network of a province's energy bureau, a province's construction supervision and public service platform, a city's health service platform, a province's Forestry and Grassland Bureau's digital forestry platform, and a city's intelligent tourism service platform, among others. Strengthening the Technological Leadership of Products such as Cloud Network and Digital Intelligence In 2025H1, AsiaInfo Technologies continued to focus on the three major product systems of "Cloud Network", "Digital Intelligence" and "IT", comprehensively promoting the evolution and innovation of the product system towards AI Native, and continuously strengthening its technological leadership to provide strong support for the Group's three growth engines. In 2025H1, the Group's R&D investment amounted to approximately RMB415 million, with continued efforts to strengthen technological leadership in cloud and digital-intelligent products. Future Prospects Dr. TIAN Suning, Chairman and Executive Director of AsiaInfo Technologies, said, "We expect the results for 2025H2 to improve significantly compared to 2025H1, and we are determined to achieve our full-year targets by optimising the rhythm of signing contracts. In this regard, the Group will adhere to a steady and progressive development strategy. On one hand, we will continue to consolidate the foundation of our core telecommunications business to promote a steady recovery of our fundamental operations in ICT support business. On the other hand, we will continue to focus on cultivating three core growth engines, including AI large model application and delivery, 5G private network and application, and digital intelligence-driven operation. We will also accelerate our pace of signing contracts, to maintain a stable and healthy annual performance. Meanwhile, we will accelerate the commercialisation of AI large model application and delivery, 5G private network and application business orders, to achieve high performance growth for the year. Combining digital intelligence-driven operation business with AI and intelligent agent technology, we will continue to promote the innovative results-based charging commerce models, and optimise the business structure." [1] Excluding the impact of one-off severance compensation due to personnel restructuring optimisation. [2] Revenue includes revenue from the ICT support business, the AI large model application and delivery business, the 5G private network and application business and the digital intelligence-driven operation business. Hashtag: #AsiaInfo The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. AsiaInfo Technologies Limited
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Khaleej Times
13 hours ago
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Bitcoin sets sights on $150K as ETF inflows surge and institutional demand grows
Bitcoin will continue its upward trend in second half of the year and may hit psychological barrier of 150,000 by October as investors pour massive funds into crypto's exchange-traded funds (ETFs), analysts say. The world's largest cryptocurrency is on track to hit new highs as economic uncertainties drive investors to park their funds in risk-on investments, including spot Bitcoin ETFs. In its latest report, Cooper Research said the world's oldest cryptocurrency could hit a price of $140,000 in September, sailing to $150,000 as soon as early October. The research firm said Bitcoin is primed for another significant jump after crossing $120,000 for the first time. Analysts and market experts expect a trading range of $105,000 to $150,000, with key levels at $108,500 support and $130,000 resistance serving as critical markers for momentum confirmation. Cooper researchers' earlier findings that Bitcoin markets could begin to overheat between the $140,000 and $200,000 range this year 'still hold,' they added. Pro-crypto sentiment Ryan Lee, Chief Analyst at Bitget Research, ssid Bitcoin's breakout above $120,000 marks a pivotal shift, fuelled by pro-crypto sentiment from the Trump campaign, strong ETF inflows, and increasing corporate treasury allocations. "These drivers signal a sustained bullish trend heading into third quarter of 2025, with BTC projected to average around $125,000," Lee told BTR. He said Ethereum is also gaining strength, currently trading between $2,800 and $3,000, supported by continued ETF demand, the upcoming Pectra upgrade, and expanding DeFi activity. "ETH is forecasted to average $3,800 in July-September 2025 quarter, with upside potential toward $5,000 if it can clear the $3,700 resistance. However, downside risks remain: a Bitcoin correction or shifting regulatory landscape could push ETH back to $2,700," he said. Josh Gilbert, Market Analyst at eToro, said Bitcoin has surged past $120,000 for the first time, marking yet another record in what's shaping up to be a monumental rise. "Strong ETF inflows and a solid macro backdrop have helped drive market momentum and that momentum keeps driving new all-time highs. The pace of gains in recent weeks reflects not just growing demand, but the growing maturity of Bitcoin as an asset class, Gilbert told BTR. "What we're seeing now is sustained interest, supported by structural inflows, rather than short-term speculation. That matches the most crucial shift, which is who's buying. Institutional adoption is growing, and this is the first real bull market where institutional participation is front and centre," he said. Treasury Strategy Publicly traded companies are now adopting Bitcoin as part of their treasury strategy, with some making multi-billion-dollar allocations. At the same time, retirement funds and sovereign wealth funds are starting to gain exposure through ETFs, adding to the wave of demand chasing a fixed supply. "Central banks keep running expansive monetary policies and global money supply keeps rising. In that environment, an asset with fixed, decentralised supply cements itself as an alternative store of value," according to Gilbert. Importantly, he said retail adoption is still only getting started. Bitcoin as an asset in an investment portfolio is still in its infancy, and that in itself creates a huge opportunity for Bitcoin and crypto to flourish over the next decade. He said this is just the beginning of widespread adoption, seamless integration with traditional finance, and robust regulatory frameworks. 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Public and private companies, institutional funds, and ETFs now hold approximately 3.5 million BTC, representing around 17% of the total fixed supply of 21 million — a significant rise from 2.6 million BTC just one year ago. Additionally, the crypto sector is gaining stronger political and regulatory backing. Despite the positive outlook, Peters advises caution. 'While optimism is high, the potential for short-term pullbacks remains. Investors should assess their time horizon and risk tolerance before entering the market. A strategy like dollar-cost averaging — investing a fixed amount regularly may help reduce timing risk and lower the average cost of investment over time.' Institutional Demand Experts said Bitcoin will reach new heights amid growing institutional demand and regulatory momentum. They said major traditional financial institutions are becoming increasingly involved in crypto launching more funds in the sector, with the asset class seen as attractive for risk-adjusted returns. According to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), Europe's leading digital assets hedge fund manager founded by alumni of Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, about 43% of the participants believe there will be a dramatic increase in traditional financial firms launching crypto funds and investment solutions over the next two years. A further 53% believe there will be a slight increase. Nearly three out of four (73%) of the institutional investors and wealth managers questioned expect a rise in digital asset fund launches in general this year with just 2% predicting a decline. Anatoly Crachilov, CEO and Founding Partner at Nickel Digital, said traditional finance firms are already making significant strides into the digital assets space and that is only predicted to increase over the next two years. 'The views of institutional investors and wealth managers on the ability of crypto to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns helps to explain why that is the case, and why professional investors increasingly expect crypto to be part of institutional investors portfolio allocation. Increasing involvement by traditional institutions is good news for the sector - nearly one in five (18%) say the involvement of major firms is very positive for their involvement in the sector while 74% say it's quite positive. Nickel's research in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Brazil and the UAE with organisations who collectively manage around $1.1 trillion in assets, found they believe crypto will be one of their top five asset classes for risk-adjusted returns over the next five years as the table below outlines. Private equity was the next most selected followed by emerging market equities. The research found 75% believe crypto will become part of portfolio allocation by institutional investors within five years. Companies questioned say actively managed diversified long-only portfolios are the most favoured way to access the digital asset space, followed by actively managed diversified long-short portfolios with passive diversified portfolios the third choice. Arbitrage-focused hedge funds were ranked fourth ahead of ETFs and ETPs.
