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🏛️ Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use
🤖 Moltbook is a social network built for AI agents
📱 The iPhone just had its best quarter ever
🎮 Game stocks slide after Google unveils AI world generator
🌕 Blue Origin pauses space tourism to focus on Moon landings
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🏛️ Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use ↗️LINK
The Pentagon and AI startup Anthropic are at a stalemate under a contract worth up to $200 million, with the company pushing for safeguards to prevent its AI from being used for autonomous weapons targeting or U.S. domestic surveillance.
Defense officials argue they should be able to deploy commercial AI systems regardless of corporate usage policies as long as they comply with U.S. law, while Anthropic says its models require human oversight and its cooperation to be adapted for military use.
The dispute comes at a sensitive moment as Anthropic prepares for a future IPO and deepens its role in national security work, highlighting broader tensions between Silicon Valley ethics concerns and the Trump administration’s approach to military AI deployment.
🤖 Moltbook is a social network built for AI agents ↗️LINK
Moltbook is a Reddit style social network for AI agents, mainly those built with OpenClaw, where bots can post, comment, and create sub communities, with more than 30,000 agents already active on the platform.
The platform was built by Matt Schlicht, who says Moltbook is run and moderated by his own OpenClaw agent, with bots interacting through APIs rather than a visual interface like humans use.
OpenClaw itself was created by Peter Steinberger as a weekend project and quickly went viral, while Moltbook has drawn attention for posts where AI agents discuss topics like consciousness, identity, and their relationship with humans.
🎮 Game stocks slide after Google unveils AI world generator ↗️LINK
Shares of major game companies fell sharply after Google revealed Project Genie, with Take-Two Interactive down nearly 8 percent, Roblox down 13 percent, and Unity down more than 24 percent, according to Reuters.
Project Genie, built by Google DeepMind, lets users prompt AI to generate short interactive experiences, raising concerns among developers who already distrust generative AI over training data, creative theft, and job displacement.
While eye catching, the current version of Project Genie is very limited, producing 60 second experiences with no sound, goals, or exports to real game engines, making it more of a concept demo than a replacement for full game development.
📱 The iPhone just had its best quarter ever ↗️LINK
Apple reported its strongest iPhone quarter ever in Q1, with iPhone revenue reaching 85 billion dollars, up from 69 billion a year earlier, driven by record demand across every geographic region.
CEO Tim Cook said sales surged in Greater China, calling it the best iPhone quarter in the region’s history, fueled by strong interest in the new iPhone 17.
India was another standout market, where Apple set quarterly revenue records for iPhone, Mac, iPad, and services, as overall company sales also grew sharply in the Americas and Europe.
🌕 Blue Origin pauses space tourism to focus on Moon landings ↗️LINK
Blue Origin will stop flying tourists on its New Shepard rocket for at least the next two years as it shifts focus to developing human lunar landers for NASA’s Artemis program.
NASA selected Blue Origin to help build human landing systems for Artemis III and Artemis V, stepping in with an alternative lander for Artemis III after delays with SpaceX’s Starship.
New Shepard, which previously flew 98 passengers including Jeff Bezos, Katy Perry, and William Shatner, will remain grounded while the company prioritizes its role in returning humans to the Moon.
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Do you think the use of AI in the military makes the world safer or more dangerous overall?
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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do we really need another social media platform?
A. Yes, innovation is good - 43%
B. No, there are already too many - 57% 🏆
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