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Claude can now read your bank account.
Anthropic launched Personal Finance in beta. Link your accounts through Plaid and ask where your money went. Read-only, it can't move a cent.
ChatGPT did this in May. Would you hand Claude your transactions?
ALT A phone showing Claude's Personal Finance beta screen, asking about monthly bills and spending categories.
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SpaceX is reportedly building its own AI rack. 72 Nvidia Rubin GPUs on one giant 84-layer board instead of cables.
Codename Kessel. Made for data centers in space.
If SpaceX starts designing its own AI hardware, who else should be worried?
ALT A gold and cream Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with trays, status lights and black cables, photographed at CES 2026.
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AWS just shipped a local copy of its own cloud. 200+ services, free, offline, on your laptop.
The twist is who wrote it. Agents wrote every line. AWS engineers didn't write or review a single line.
If agents can build AWS, what's left for the humans?
ALT Colorful wooden puzzle blocks scattered on a dark blue background, with the headline 'How we built the agents that built AWS Emulator'.
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OpenAI reportedly just crossed $10B in a single quarter for the first time. Up about 50% from $6.7B the quarter before.
Same quarter, it lost $10.9B. Revenue is real. Profit is still a long way off.
When does the money in have to start covering the money out?
ALT A phone showing the OpenAI logo resting on a glowing blue circuit board.
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Nine engines only help if one can fail without taking the rest with it. Falcon 9 shuts the bad engine down, boxes it in, and still finishes the mission. The engine count isn't the story. The containment is. What other rocket is built to survive a failure like that?
Falcon 9 can lose a first-stage engine and still complete its primary mission. Having nine engines only helps if a failing one can be stopped without taking its neighbors with it.
SpaceX's payload user's guide describes two layers of protection: software shuts down engines showing abnormal behavior, and each engine sits in a separate metal bay to limit damage spreading. Before liftoff, the rocket is held down while automated checks confirm the engines are operating normally.
The important limit is that SpaceX claims engine-out capability through much of first-stage flight. That is not a promise that every failure, at every moment, is survivable. The upper stage has just one Merlin Vacuum engine, so the same redundancy does not apply there.
For a satellite customer, the value is a chance to preserve the mission after a local fault. Counting engines alone misses the containment and control systems that make that possible.
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MiniMax claims its new H3-Image makes 4K pictures in about 10 seconds. 33B parameters, open weights on Hugging Face.
Then the fine print. The license blocks use in the US, EU, UK and South Korea.
Open weights, with a map attached. Who actually gets to build on this?
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Databricks just turned Genie into a coworker.
Not a chatbot you ask once. It stays on the job, tracks long tasks, and nudges you when something is missing.
It even builds your deck for you.
Would you hand it a real job, or just the boring bits?
ALT The Databricks Genie homepage with a chat box asking How can I help, Sydney, and lists of recent and pinned dashboards below it.
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Anduril just put its own eyes in orbit.
ANDURIL-216 has a long-wave infrared sensor that tracks spacecraft in orbital night. Satellites go dark. Now someone is watching anyway.
The Moon photo is the proof. Who wins the race to see in the dark, Anduril or the old primes?
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United just drew a line on AI agents.
Agents can search flights but cannot book them, with United citing security and federal rules.
A demo is easy. Getting a company to let an agent act as its customer is the hard part.
Do other airlines follow?
🚨 JUST IN: United Airlines is banning third-party AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers, citing security risks and potential violations of federal regulations.
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Fourth end date in six days. First it was mid 2027, then about 8 months, now the end of summer 2027.
Elon even says it is not the profit-maximizing move. Sentimentality, he calls it.
If the backlog is that big, why kill the truck at all?
ALT A silver Tesla Cybertruck driving on a road with snowy hills in the background.
In order to work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog, production will be extended through the end of summer 2027
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IBM's quantum chip is getting a big brother.
Nighthawk r2 is live today at 100,000 samples a second. The r3 coming next runs 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits, and two link up in 2027 for 1,000-plus qubits.
When does quantum stop being a demo?
ALT A black IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 chip on a gold circuit board.
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Grok Build left 35,000 apps open to anyone. The share links looked random, but the random words sat in the web address itself, so a public DNS search could list them.
Even its own maker's sales plans were in the pile.
When the link is the lock, who checks the lock?
ALT A browser showing a Grok Build app address made of random words ending in grok.me, with an App not found message.
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Agents are leaving the chat window.
Reducto wired a Pi agent to a document through MCP. Ask for a launch brief in your terminal and 30 seconds later you are editing it, not copying and pasting it.
That is the shift. The doc is the workspace now, not the output at the end.
You can now go from your local terminal to an editable document in 30 seconds ⚡
Connect Reducto Office to your Pi agent via MCP, ask for a launch brief, and open it in the editor to keep working together.
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Applied Intuition is talking about raising $1.5B at a $30B valuation. That's double what it was worth last June.
The company doesn't build cars, it builds the software that teaches them to drive.
Is simulation the real bottleneck in self-driving now?
ALT A blue self-driving test car with a sensor rig on its roof, shown indoors at an event with people standing around it.
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Your code can now hail a delivery robot.
Serve just opened its 2,000-robot sidewalk fleet to developers and AI agents.
Three API calls quote, dispatch, and track a bot.
You don't need a fleet or a robotics team.
What would you send first?
ALT A white and green Serve Robotics delivery robot rolling down a pedestrian walkway in Miami.
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Anthropic is about to test whether the AI boom survives contact with the public market.
Its IPO is already oversubscribed, multiple times over, at $70 to $78 a share.
ALT Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaking at a World Economic Forum event, raising one finger.
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And the filing says it all. The tech could bring an age of miracles, and it might doom humanity.
Same document. Both warnings. That is the whole bet in one filing.
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Junior jobs are where the next experts are made. If AI takes the first rung of the research ladder, economics loses more than cheap labor. It loses the people who learn the craft by doing it. So who trains the next generation of researchers if the entry level work is gone?
For economics graduates studying whether AI will elevate or eliminate jobs, the threat hits home bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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