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SpaceX has become a publicly traded company, with a valuation of nearly $1.8 trillion. The company's value lies in its AI services, mostly from space, and primarily for enterprise applications. As a public company, SpaceX will prioritize making money, which may impact its work with NASA on the Artemis program.

Anthropic has disabled its two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with a US government order blocking their use by foreign nationals. The move comes amid national security concerns and a dispute between Anthropic and the Trump Administration.

Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy spoke with White House officials about security concerns with Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, leading to a ban on foreign nationals accessing the models. The move has been disputed by Anthropic, which claims the vulnerabilities could be discovered using other publicly available models.

SpaceX's IPO allows the public to buy shares, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. The company combines rocket, AI, and social media platforms, aiming to make life multiplanetary and deliver 'orbital AI compute' by putting AI data center servers in space via reusable rockets.

CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind signed an open letter calling for more robust regulations around gene synthesis, citing concerns that AI systems might be used to help develop and deploy biological weapons. The letter proposes mandatory gene synthesis screening and recordkeeping of orders to prevent misuse.

Cindy Zhang discusses the evolution of XDS, a unified UI system powering 10,000+ internal tools at Meta. She shares insights on managing large-scale community contributions, executing safe monorepo refactors, and mitigating breaking changes via feature flags.

Vercel Labs has open-sourced zero-native, a cross-platform framework for native desktop applications written in Zig, aiming to provide lightweight binaries and a small memory footprint by avoiding the massive memory overhead of Electron.

AWS has introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data loss or maintaining lower write latency.

The new Siri AI on macOS 27 Golden Gate shows promise but has limitations, particularly when working with non-Apple apps and files. It can help with tasks like calculating averages from screenshots, but its capabilities are more restricted on a Mac compared to an iPhone.

A company's utility website was rebuilt using an HTML-first approach with Astro, resulting in a doubling of users overnight. The site was designed to work on every machine, with poor connections, and without losing data. It used simple HTML, progressive enhancement with JavaScript, and met WCAG accessibility standards. The approach proved successful, with users able to complete forms even on outdated browsers and with limited network connectivity.

Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus aims to accelerate invention and technological breakthroughs using physical AI, with a funding of $12 billion and a valuation of $41 billion. The company seeks to create an 'artificial general engineer' to dramatically accelerate the invention loop and produce 'civilizational wealth'.

A critical 0-day vulnerability in Oracle's PeopleSoft software has been exploited by the ShinyHunters ransomware group, affecting hundreds of organizations and stealing gigabytes of data. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35273, has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 and allows attackers to send requests from a susceptible server to systems used by the targeted organization.

Apple's new AI photo editing tools in iOS 27 include Clean Up, Extend, and Spatial Reframing. Clean Up removes objects from photos, Extend expands photo edges, and Spatial Reframing changes photo perspective. These tools use AI to edit photos, raising questions about photo authenticity.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan for a companywide AI hackathon has been met with frustration and disbelief among employees, who feel they have too much work and not enough time to participate. The hackathon is intended to build camaraderie and focus on AI innovation, but employees are skeptical about the timing and feasibility of the event.

LinkerBot, a Chinese startup, is making dexterous robotic hands for humanoids. The company's hands can play piano, thread needles, and assemble electronics. With a price range of $600 to $15,000, LinkerBot is poised to become the industry standard. The company has shipped 10,000 robotic hands and is seeking another round of financing at a $6 billion valuation.

A German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature, requiring the company to prevent the dissemination of erroneous claims. The ruling holds that a company designing, training, and managing an AI system must assume liability for damages caused by its responses.

Anthropic is disabling its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models to comply with a US government order citing national security concerns. The company claims the order is unjustified and that it has strong safeguards in place to prevent misuse of its technology.

SpaceX's recent IPO has sparked a wave of interest in AI companies going public, with Anthropic and OpenAI potentially following suit. This shift in the public markets towards AI labs and deeptech companies may have a ripple effect on the economy, with other companies trying to ride the wave of success.

SpaceX has reached a market cap of $2.1 trillion, exceeding Tesla's $1.52 trillion. There are hints of a potential merger between the two companies. Additionally, other transportation companies like Lucid Motors, Waymo, and General Motors are making significant moves in the industry.

A report by Data Center Watch found that 75 data center projects were disrupted in the first quarter of 2026, valued at $130 billion, due to growing opposition from local communities and grassroots groups.