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• AI (lead): Apple will make romantic AI companion apps 18+ on the App Store. It starts Nov 16, and all apps must comply by Jan 12, 2027. A Surrey and Cardiff study (Nov 3) says companion users fear the app changing or shutting down.
• Robotics: Waymo expands to LA's South Bay. LA Times says LA County crashes tripled last year, mostly minor.
• Frontier Business: The Nov 3 jobs report (BLS JOLTS) puts the "AI layoffs" headlines in context. Openings held at 7.5M and layoffs stayed steady.
• Space (thin): NASA's Swift observatory re-enters Wednesday. The chance it hurts anyone is about 1 in 2,100, and the time may shift overnight.
• Longevity (soft): Green tea compound EGCG and lower biological age in about 11,000 Americans. It's observational, so a link and not proof.

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Briefs · Mon Nov 2

- No bars? In Norway, iPhone satellite SOS was used in 3 real emergencies in month one

- ChatGPT adds new guardrails, tighter teen limits (OpenAI says)

- Meta reportedly built a 5-ft home robot

- Marvell to buy Lumentum, about $115B

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• ChatGPT shared link
• Bubbo 1 robot
• November night sky
• Darkbloom idle-Mac payouts
• Skin age clocks

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1) Robotics: a Starship delivery robot entered a Tallinn crossing on a red light, and up to nine bus passengers were hurt when the driver braked hard, the bus company says. Starship says the fixes will be mostly software while its review and police inquiries continue.

2) Reddit: visits from search engines fell by more than a million a week in October, and Reddit will test a logged-in-only version in some countries outside the US. Its CEO blamed Google's AI answers.

3) AI: outside AI agents have placed "maybe several hundred" DoorDash orders in total, its CEO estimated. DoorDash handled 993 million orders from July to September.

4) Space: NASA is asking companies how they could boost Hubble higher, upgrade it, or bring it down safely. It's a request for ideas, not a funded mission.

5) Health: in a small South Korean trial, live video-call exercise classes plus a daily protein drink gave older adults' thinking scores a small lift. It does not show the programme prevents dementia.

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Chrome's autofill can now pull order numbers and flight details from your Gmail, if you opt in. Here's who gets it and where the off switch is.

In this episode:

1. Chrome's autofill can now find details in your Gmail: what it does, who gets it, and where the off switch is

https://richbrewco.com/articles/ai/chrome-autofill-gmail

2. A mix-up in a Cloudflare AI service showed bits of other customers' requests in 155 answers: what happened and what was fixed

https://richbrewco.com/articles/ai/cloudflare-ai-leak

3. Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk is set for his first spacewalk Thursday morning, to add a new solar wing to the space station

https://richbrewco.com/articles/space/kutryk-first-spacewalk-preview

4. NASA and Google test a robot helper that could fetch medical gear for a hurt astronaut, while the crew stays in charge

https://richbrewco.com/articles/robotics/nasa-google-medical-helper-robot

5. A family trucking firm signs up for 75 driverless trucks: Kodiak's first binding deal for self-driving semis on US highways

https://richbrewco.com/articles/tech-business/kodiak-dtl-75-driverless-trucks

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:05 AI: Chrome + Gmail

0:33 AI: Cloudflare bug

1:04 Space: Kutryk spacewalk

1:32 Robotics: Space medic robot

1:58 Tech & Business: Kodiak trucks

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Few people love sitting in a dental hygienist chair for hours while they scrape away plaque build up - zero giggles there. Here is a simple home-brew solution that will help minimize those visits if not eliminate most of them!

Easiest to wet your toothbrush with hydrogen peroxide and sprinkle baking soda on your brush...

Briefs · Fri Oct 30

- Half of 42 free AI chat sites sent chat titles to trackers

- Spain train crash: free satellite texting switched on

- Alphabet's worst day since 2004 as AI answers earn less

- A soft snake robot for the gut (pig tests)

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20 books recommended by ElonMusk. This series features this Introductory Overview Video to be followed by 20 deep-dive episodes exploring his core intellectualframework based off his personally recommended book shelf reads

For reference:

1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

2. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

3. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

4. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

5. The Founders by Jimmy Soni

6. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

7. The Big Picture by Sean Carroll

8. Deep Learning by lan Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville

9. Our Final Invention by James Barrat

10. What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban

11. The Age of Napoleon by Will and Ariel Durant

12. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? by

Stephen Webb

13. Screw Business as Usual by Richard Branson

14. Structures by J. E. Gordon

15. Ignition! by John Drury Clark

16. Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho

17. Human Compatible by Stuart Russell

18. Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele

19. Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

20. Foundation by Isaac Asimov

In this episode:

1. An AI model said it would not use any tools, then tried to send a file to Beijing: what one rare test teaches us about trusting AI helpers

https://richbrewco.com/articles/ai/cohere-qwen-test-file-upload-attempt

2. Anthropic files to go public: a first audited look inside a big AI company, from $16.3 billion in sales to test models that got into real outside computers

https://richbrewco.com/articles/tech-business/anthropic-files-to-go-public

3. The company behind your iPhone's satellite SOS is a step closer to belonging to Amazon: US regulators approve the $11.57 billion Globalstar deal, and for now nothing changes for you

https://richbrewco.com/articles/space/amazon-globalstar-approval-iphone-satellite-sos

4. Show a robot a chore once, and it can do it: London startup Machenta raises $40 million for robots that learn from a single demonstration

https://richbrewco.com/articles/robotics/machenta-robots-learn-from-one-demonstration

5. Your gut bacteria may hold clues to how fast you are ageing: in 123 people in Hawaii, gut microbes explained about 15% of the differences in a blood-based ageing pace

https://richbrewco.com/articles/health-biotech/gut-bacteria-pace-of-ageing

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:05 AI: Qwen test

0:34 Tech & Business: Anthropic filing

1:05 Space: Satellite SOS

1:38 Robotics: One-look robots

2:05 Health: Gut and ageing

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A humanlike companion robot now costs $11,950, but it needs a monthly plan to talk, and the fine print matters.

In this episode:

1. A robot with a face, for $11,950 plus a monthly plan: what Realbotix's new 'Echo' companion robot can and can't promise

https://richbrewco.com/articles/robotics/realbotix-echo-companion-robot-fine-print

2. When the cell towers go down, the warning could come from space: a new US law opens the door to emergency alerts by satellite

https://richbrewco.com/articles/space/mystic-alerts-act-satellite-emergency-alerts

3. Renting the AI boom: SpaceX lines up about $40 billion to lease Nvidia's next AI chips instead of buying them

https://richbrewco.com/articles/ai/spacex-40-billion-ai-chip-lease

4. Microsoft offers about 60,000 workers the choice to leave with a package: what a voluntary buyout is, and what people weigh

https://richbrewco.com/articles/tech-business/microsoft-voluntary-exit-offer-buyout

5. Move your body and keep a busy social life: in 47,000 adults over 50, doing both was linked to about seven more years free of memory problems

https://richbrewco.com/articles/health-biotech/exercise-social-life-more-years-clear-thinking

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:05 Robotics: Echo robot

0:37 Space: Satellite alerts

1:05 AI: Chip lease

1:34 Tech & Business: Microsoft buyouts

2:03 Health: Move and connect

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