• James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits
• Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business
• Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
• FAA has lifted its third-ever nationwide ground stop
• Millions of Americans are not taking their GLP-1 drugs as prescribed
• FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
• In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
• Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
• OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
• Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
• Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
• It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
• Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"
• Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
• Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
• Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride
• In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening
• Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud
• The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover
• Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash
| • Italy's data protection agency fines Meta €805M for allegedly accessing Android users' photos and videos without their consent or informing them (Reuters)
• How Marco Rubio helped topple Jensen Huang; source: Rubio used a CIA report about Alice Huang to write his own, recasting CIA reporting in more assertive terms (Washington Post)
• How the Swiss city of Lugano is trying to reinvent itself as a crypto hub to boost its economy by launching its own token LVGA, partnering with Tether, and more (Financial Times)
• Microsoft says all Microsoft 365 products are operational, ending an outage that disrupted governments, traders, hospitals, and businesses around the world (Bloomberg)
• Sources: despite Nvidia's 20+ years of business in China, Jensen Huang struggled to gain access to policymakers driving Beijing's chip self-sufficiency campaign (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
• Operand, which offers AI-powered due diligence tools for PE firms, raised $31M across a seed and a Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a $220M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
• WhiteMatter, which builds "guardian" AI agents to oversee file access, software use, decision making, and actions of existing AI agents, raised a $20M Series A (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
• Charta Health, which offers AI-powered tools to automate medical chart review, billing, and coding workflows, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)
• Luminal, which provides an inference cloud and develops inference compiler software to test running AI models on different chips, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Cambridge, UK-based Tendrils, which is designing a CPU architecture with thousands of cores operating in parallel, raised $30M led by Benchmark (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
• JD.com completes its takeover of German electronics retailer Ceconomy, after acquiring a ~60% stake for ~$1.5B, following the EU's approval of the deal (Tomoko Wakasugi/Nikkei Asia)
• Analysis: Sam Bankman-Fried's $500M Anthropic investment in 2021 would be worth ~$37B if Anthropic lists at ~$1.5T; he relinquished his stake in 2024 for ~$1.3B (George Hammond/Financial Times)
• Free speech group FIRE says DOJ and DHS will end efforts to curb "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up iOS app, which report on ICE activity (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
• US officials say Trump is not expected to raise allegations of a Chinese intelligence operation involving Jensen Huang during his upcoming meeting with Xi (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
• Tesla says "select customers" can now place orders for its Cybercab "for personal use", for $30K plus a required $299/month Autonomy Subscription to operate (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)
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• Tesla starts taking Cybercab orders for personal use
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• AMD vs. Intel CPUs: Which is the better buy in 2026?
• One UI 9 is the final major update for these older Samsung Galaxy phones
• Outage at HR platform Workday locks millions of employees out of their account
• FAA allows flights to resume after hours-long ground stop across the US
• Some international physical copies of GTA VI can allegedly be redeemed without opening the box
• Google now lets people connect Gemini to their bank accounts
• Disney's 3D movies shine on Meta's Quest 3, it's just a shame it took so long
• You can now tempt fate and give your banking information to ChatGPT
• Microsoft services are returning after an outage took down Outlook, Teams and more
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