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☀️ On this day: On May 7, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) in a bombed-out Tokyo department store, starting with only ¥190,000 (roughly $2,900). They built Japan's first tape recorder, then licensed transistor technology from Bell Labs in 1952, which led to the pocket transistor radio that cracked open the American market. The company renamed itself Sony in 1958 and turns 80 today, now worth over $100 billion.
What’s happening:
🤝 Anthropic signs compute deal with SpaceX
🏃 Google is launching an AI health coach for $9.99 a month
⚖️ Sam Altman's ex-CTO just became Musk's star witness
⚖️ Publishers say Meta's AI copied their books word for word
💸 Apple to drop its cheapest MacBook Neo
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Hand-picked news:
🤝 Anthropic signs compute deal with SpaceX ↗️LINK
Anthropic has leased SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 supercluster, a 300+ MW Memphis facility with 220K+ Nvidia GPUs, doubling Claude Code's usage caps across paid tiers and lifting peak-hour restrictions.
The deal follows Anthropic's reported $200B, 5-year commitment to Google Cloud, suggesting the company is aggressively stacking compute from multiple sources to keep up with frontier demand.
Musk, who once called Anthropic "Misanthropic," framed the deal as SpaceX renting to companies "taking the right steps for humanity" — which is either a change of heart or a very profitable one.
🏃 Google is launching an AI health coach ↗️LINK
Google is launching Google Health Coach on May 19, a Gemini-powered subscription service that combines fitness coaching, sleep tracking, and wellness advice, bundled into the $9.99/month Google Health Premium plan.
The coach pulls from fitness metrics, sleep data, nutrition logs, cycle tracking, and U.S. medical records to generate personalized guidance, with users able to update goals or log workouts by voice or photo.
Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get this at no extra cost, which makes the health coach less a new product and more a reason to stay inside Google's existing subscription stack.
⚖️ Mira Murati testifies Altman lied about a safety review ↗️LINK
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati testified via deposition in Musk's lawsuit that Sam Altman falsely told her OpenAI's legal team had cleared a model to skip its safety review, which she later confirmed was untrue.
Murati also described Altman giving conflicting instructions to different executives, undermining her authority as CTO and creating leadership chaos that she says put OpenAI "at risk of falling apart" during the 2023 board crisis.
The 2023 firing saga keeps generating new testimony, but Murati's credibility cuts both ways: former board member Helen Toner testified she saw Murati as too cautious to take a stand when it mattered.
⚖️ Major publishers sue Meta over Llama training data ↗️LINK
Five major publishers including Macmillan and Hachette filed a class action suit against Meta, alleging Llama was trained on books and journals scraped from piracy sites like LibGen and Sci-Hub without permission.
The suit includes a concrete example: when prompted with two sentences from a Cengage calculus textbook, Llama reproduces the following section word for word, which the publishers argue proves direct copying.
Anthropic faced the same lawsuit and settled for $1.5 billion last year. Meta says it will "fight aggressively," but that precedent gives publishers a strong reason to stay in court.
💸 Apple to drop its cheapest MacBook Neo ↗️LINK
Apple is considering eliminating the base $599 MacBook Neo configuration, which would quietly push the laptop's starting price to $699 without any listed model getting a price increase.
Costs are climbing on two fronts: a global memory chip shortage driven by AI data center demand, and a fresh TSMC production run yielding higher-spec A18 Pro chips, raising per-unit cost before any rush manufacturing premiums.
Apple already pulled this move on the Mac mini and Mac Studio. If new colors are the fallback plan, expect a palette refresh to soften a price hike that was coming either way.

Today’s Poll:
Would you actually use an AI health coach daily?
Vote and find out about the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think Apple Intelligence will actually be good when it fully launches?
A) Yes, Apple always gets it right eventually - 37%
B) No, they're too far behind Google and OpenAI to catch up - 63% 🏆
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