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☀️ On this day: On July 2, 1897, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, age 23, was granted British Patent No. 12039 in London, the first patent ever issued for a working radio communication system. Weeks later he founded the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, which he renamed Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900. That patent turns 129 today, and the system it described grew into radio, radar, and the broadcasting industry.
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💼 AI is coming for freelance work, report shows
📱 SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI Phone
🤖 Japan plans its own AI model and 10 million robots
☁️ Meta wants to rent out its leftover compute
💻 New redesigned iPads and MacBook coming in 2027
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💼 AI is coming for freelance work ↗️LINK
The Center for AI Safety and Scale Labs updated their Remote Labor Index, and Anthropic's Fable 5 hit the highest score yet, matching or beating a paid professional on 16.1% of freelance projects.
The benchmark runs 240 real commissions, like 3D ring design and animated ads, and human judges grade each deliverable against a pro's. Opus 4.8 placed second at 8.3%, GPT-5.5 third at 6.3%.
The frontier climbed from 2.5% at the index's October launch, a 6x jump in under a year. Still, the best model flunks 5 of 6 tasks, so freelancers keep their jobs for now.
📱 SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI Phone ↗️LINK
The Wall Street Journal reports SpaceX showed investors a prototype AI handset, slimmer than an iPhone, ahead of its IPO. Musk quickly fired back on X, calling the report "utterly false."
Per the WSJ, the device runs a proprietary operating system, packs Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, and folds in xAI tech, the AI lab SpaceX absorbed in February. SpaceX said the design could still change.
Musk would join a crowded race, with OpenAI's Jony Ive device looming and the AI-gadget graveyard already holding Humane's Pin and the Rabbit R1. Wanting to sell one is not the same as shipping one.
🤖 Japan plans its own AI model and robots ↗️LINK
Japan is building its own AI model and wants 10 million AI-powered robots working across 18 sectors by 2040. A consortium called Noetra, backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda, will build the model.
Tokyo pitches this as a fix for its aging workforce and a way to lean less on US and Chinese AI. The government will commit up to $6.1 billion over five years, tied to results.
The plan leans hard on "physical AI," robots that act in the real world, not just chat. That is the hard part, since Japan's own strategy admits real-world robot performance stays limited today.
☁️ Meta wants to rent out its leftover compute ↗️LINK
Meta is reportedly building a cloud unit, dubbed Meta Compute, to rent spare data-center capacity and access to hosted models like its new Muse Spark. Shares jumped more than 10% Wednesday.
Months of investor anxiety over Meta's AI capex drove the plan, which copies SpaceX's template of renting xAI's Colossus capacity to Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI this year.
The move rattled Meta's own suppliers. Neocloud stocks CoreWeave and Nebius fell about 11% and 12%, since Meta buys from them today but could soon undercut their pricing.
💻 New redesigned iPads and MacBook coming ↗️LINK
Bloomberg reports Apple is testing four new iPad Pro models for spring 2027 and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro, code-named K104, for the first half of the year, both running faster chips.
Apple is fast-tracking its first M7 chip for that same window, its first iPad Pro update since October 2025. The moves land as memory shortages push prices up, with one MacBook Pro jumping to $1,999.
The hardware push arrives just as Apple changes hands. Longtime hardware chief John Ternus takes over as CEO from Tim Cook on September 1, so this roadmap is his to ship.
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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you feel bummed that Sony is killing physical PlayStation discs?
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B) No - 45%
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