• High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions
• One space station company sues another for copying its work
• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Nvidia has a Jensen Huang problem—and no obvious successor
• FDA warns GLP-1 drugs may pose risk of rare condition that causes vision loss
• Polestar has a new look with its Formula 2030 concept
• Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
• Review: Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is good, but it's missing all the exciting stuff
• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
• Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
• A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
• Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
• Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
• Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
• Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
• F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
| • OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• The AI Futures Project updates its AI timelines after METR's report on Anthropic R&D, saying it now expects a Superhuman AI Researcher to arrive in 2027 (AI Futures Project)
• Oura agrees to acquire AI and on-demand doctor service Counsel Health for $625M, says Q4 revenue grew 153% YoY to $533M and FY 2026 revenue grew 92% to $1.75B (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• How Alice Huang built her career with romantic partner and Hexi Capital founder Kang Wei, who faced stock market probes; sources believe she is back in China (Financial Times)
• Anthropic unveils office tools, including a video call assistant, a data dashboard, and spreadsheet service Claude Sheets, in a bid to compete with Microsoft (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul launches the US' first effort to independently test AI systems and train a new generation of AI safety experts via a new center (Calder McHugh/Politico)
• Dreeze, launched by Zerto founders to help companies recover from cyberattacks by restoring entire cloud applications, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed (CTech)
• Updated S-1: Anthropic's seven co-founders will sell $1.75B of stock in next week's IPO, each offering shares worth ~$250M at the midpoint of its IPO range (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg)
• SoftBank wrote off $3.7B in non-refundable data center equipment advances after reviewing its plans in Q2; the company had committed $9.5B in advance payments (Martin Peers/The Information)
• Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API and AI Ultra users two weeks after releasing it to cyber defenders, and previews a swarm feature in Antigravity (Koray Kavukcuoglu/Google)
• AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025 (Reuters)
• IBM ends H-1B and green card sponsorships for most of the sponsored roles in IBM Consulting; source: workers can still work with IBM outside the US or leave IBM (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Goldman Sachs expects Anthropic revenue of ~$52B in 2026 and $600B+ by 2030, operating profit in 2029, and positive free cash flow in 2030 (Financial Times)
• Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items (Mia Sato/The Verge)
• Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming exclusively to consoles; GTA VI runs at 30fps (Tom Warren/The Verge)
| • Here's what to look for so you don't get scammed by a fake GPU
• NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 has presets you should know about
• Polestar is banned in the US, but we still want its latest concept car
• Google turns Gemini towards medical paperwork
• Anthropic takes on Google and Microsoft with Claude Sheets
• Google Fi announces super network automatic carrier switching for improved speed and reception
• Can you use WD-40 on your electronics?
• Adobe and Google have teamed up to connect Drive, Gmail and Acrobat
• Don't throw away your old phone box — you might need it in an emergency
• What is the difference between rest mode and shutdown for your PlayStation 5?
• GTA 6 is targeting 30 fps and has ray-tracing support on PS5 Pro
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is now widely available around the world
• Apple brings Sign Language interpretation to a selection of original Apple TV titles
• Why does your phone keep switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data?
• Reddit is (sort of) getting into the product reviews business
• A Chinese team made a big splash with a drone swarm world record
• The HDMI port settings you should change for the best picture quality
• BT won't launch Starlink deal until people forget about Ukraine
• Spotify adds new voices for its AI DJ
• Adobe Firefly AI Assistant can now take on recurring tasks for you
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