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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX·Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans·How to turn off AI in your Google Docs·AI's most powerful bosses deliver message to world leaders - and it's not very reassuring·AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases·Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices·Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI·VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription·Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors·After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive·NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI·FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement·Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games·World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.·NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX·Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans·How to turn off AI in your Google Docs·AI's most powerful bosses deliver message to world leaders - and it's not very reassuring·AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases·Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices·Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI·VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription·Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors·After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive·NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI·FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement·Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games·World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.·
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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.

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Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming — now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.

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VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription

VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, including support for RAW images, advanced export options, and additional advanced editing tools like adjusting image aspect ratios. A press release says the app is made for managing high-volume editing projects, like "weddings, portraits, events, sports, school photography, and other large-scale photoshoots." The $500 per ye … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

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After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive

Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard. This tension between […]

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FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

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Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use a player's Fortnite skins and will let developers build skins of their own that work with Fortnite. "We're tackling this problem first because we want to prove things out with a system that's complex enough to be a meaningful existence proof of the idea, and one that inherently comes with a ton of player value by respecting t … Read the full story at The Verge.

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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

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Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands

Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone. "To my knowledge, this is the first time US export controls have been used to control access to an AI model in this way." The Trump administration has not publicly explained the legal basis for the order, but in a statement on its website, Anthropic said the government cited "national security authorities" to justify "an export con … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world

An alleged Russian-speaking group of cybercriminals is reportedly compromising and targeting several major companies that use Fortinet Firewalls and VPNs through previously known passwords.

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Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

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World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

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