Good morning. It’s Thursday, June 4. Today we are covering:

* Companies using Reddit to feed AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google with fake promotional posts, gaming what the tools recommend

* Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal model that runs entirely on a standard 16GB laptop

* OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI CEOs sign letter urging Congress to regulate synthetic DNA sales as AI lowers bioweapon barriers

* Amazon unveils next-gen Proteus robot that understands plain-language commands, part of a €10 billion European expansion

* The race to put AI compute into orbit is heating up, but engineers say true orbital data centers are still years away

Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 28. Today we are covering:

* Apple previews the biggest overhaul of iOS in years — a new Siri app with chat history, a dedicated AI camera mode, and generative photo editing tools arriving with iOS 27

* A Google engineer is under federal arrest for using internal search data to place winning Polymarket bets, netting $1.2 million under the alias AlphaRaccoon

* Zuckerberg says Meta entering the cloud computing market is “definitely on the table” as the company sits on a $125 billion data center build

* Microsoft and Dell land a $9.7 billion Pentagon contract to consolidate and clean up U.S. military software licenses

* AWS solves a major liquid cooling challenge that could define the next generation of AI data centers

Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 21. Today we are covering:

* SpaceX officially files public IPO documents to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX

* Google launches Antigravity 2.0 at Google IO with a new desktop app, CLI tool, SDK, and two new pricing tiers

* Meta, Snap, and Roblox commit to tougher anti-grooming measures in the UK under Ofcom pressure — TikTok and YouTube passed

* Tech workers turn to anonymous app Blind to navigate the ongoing wave of layoffs across the industry

* Flipper One debuts as an open-source ARM Linux computer in keychain form, aimed at hackers and developers

Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 14. Today we are covering:

* WhatsApp adds an incognito mode for Meta AI chats, with messages that disappear by default

* AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon agree to form a joint venture for satellite-based coverage

* Microsoft retires Copilot Mode on Edge, folding all AI features directly into the browser

* Anthropic reinstates OpenClaw and third-party agent access on Claude subscriptions with a new credit system

* Meta launches Instants, a new ephemeral photo-sharing feature on Instagram and as a standalone iPhone app

Good morning. It’s Thursday, May 7. Today we are covering:

* xAI shares its Colossus 1 supercomputer with Anthropic in a surprise compute partnership

* Thousands of vibe-coded apps are leaking corporate and personal data on the open web

* Genesis AI unveils its first model and demos robotic hands solving a Rubik’s Cube

* Shivon Zilis testimony in the Musk vs. Altman trial ends up hurting Musk‘s own case

* Autonomous vehicle technology finds new applications beyond personal transportation

Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 30. Today we are covering:

* Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet each raised AI capital expenditure guidance but only one managed to convince investors

* OpenAI’s Codex system prompt bans all discussion of goblins and tells the model to act as if it has a “vivid inner life”

* Meta quietly re-entered crypto with stablecoin payouts for creators in Colombia and the Philippines

* 1X Technologies opens a US factory to manufacture 10,000 humanoid home robots this year

* Satellite connectivity on track to reach 46% of global smartphone shipments by 2030

Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 23. Today we are covering:

* Apple security fix — a bug that let police extract deleted messages from iPhones has been patched

* X and Grok — the platform is handing timeline curation to its AI for Premium users

* Microsoft and Cursor — why Microsoft passed on the AI coding startup SpaceX is now buying

* AI workplace divide — top earners use AI daily at nearly 4x the rate of low-income workers

* Bob Lee’s murder — a new Bloomberg investigation revisits the killing that shook Silicon Valley

Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 16. Today we are covering:

* You Switched to Claude Over Surveillance Fears. Now It Wants Your Passport

* X rolls out ‘Cashtags’ for in-timeline crypto and stock data

* Google ships its most expressive Gemini 3.1 text-to-speech model yet with 70+ language support

* Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

* Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut storage costs by 45 per cent

Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 9. Today we are covering:

* Meta’s Superintelligence Lab unveils its first public model, Muse Spark

* Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT

* Hackers exploiting Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw since December

* Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

* Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date

Good morning. It’s Thursday, April 4, and we’ll be taking tomorrow off in observance of Good Friday. Today we are covering:

* FBI declares suspected Chinese hack of US surveillance system a ‘major cyber incident’

* Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google

* Tim Cook (Still) Believes in Crazy Ideas

* Google AI Pro now comes with 5 TB of storage, no price increase

* US Job-Cut Announcements in Tech Keep Rising With AI Adoption