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💊 Anthropic launches AI science tool, will make drugs
💸 Elon Musk caps staff AI spending at $200 weekly
🤖 Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI agents are lagging
🖥️ Leaked video shows Microsoft's AI-first Windows
🚗 Tesla launches six-seat Model Y in US
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💊 Anthropic wants to make its own drugs ↗️LINK
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that bundles more than 60 research tools into one environment, and revealed it will run its own preclinical drug programs targeting neglected diseases like rare and tropical conditions.
Anthropic says developing drugs itself will teach it how to build better tools for the pharma customers it now courts, though the move also pits it against those same potential buyers.
No AI-designed drug has cleared regulators and reached patients yet, and experts peg any payoff at a decade or more away, so Anthropic's medicine cabinet stays empty for a while.
💸 Elon Musk caps staff AI spending at $200 weekly ↗️LINK
Elon Musk is capping Tesla employees' AI spending at $200 a week starting Monday, reversing his earlier push where he predicted AI would drive worker output to "nutty high" levels.
Soaring AI bills drove the decision, and Tesla now joins Uber, Meta, Walmart and Coinbase in reining staff in. Employees must get special permission to spend above the weekly limit.
The cap conveniently skips Grok, Musk's own AI, which he admits needs rebuilding "from the ground up." Tesla staff blowing budgets on Claude and ChatGPT apparently hit closer to home.
🤖 Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agents are lagging ↗️LINK
Zuckerberg told Meta staff at a Thursday town hall that AI agent development had not accelerated over the past four months the way executives expected, conceding the sweeping restructuring built around that bet hasn't paid off yet.
Meta reorganized around AI this year, cutting roughly 10% of its workforce and moving about 7,000 employees to AI teams. Zuckerberg admitted the cuts were not as "clean" as they should have been and misjudged the timing.
He promised clearer returns within three to six months, a rare self-imposed deadline. For a company that plans to spend up to $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, that clock now runs in public.
🖥️ Leaked video shows Microsoft's AI-first Windows ↗️LINK
A leaked video on the BetaWiki Discord shows Project Aion, Microsoft's experimental OS that builds Copilot into the core of the shell and swaps the familiar Start menu for a Copilot launcher.
Aion runs on a stripped-down codebase called Win3 that drops legacy Win32 app support. It runs web apps natively and streams heavier desktop programs like Word through a Windows 365 Cloud PC.
Windows Central verified the video as real, though Microsoft won't confirm whether Aion ever ships. Selling a Copilot-first desktop to people who spent two years hiding the Copilot button sounds ambitious.
🚗 Tesla launches six-seat Model Y in US ↗️LINK
Tesla launched the six-seat Model Y Long Wheelbase in the US and Puerto Rico, a stretched three-row version of its best-selling SUV, with orders open now at a Launch Series price of $61,990.
The extended wheelbase adds six inches to open up a usable third row, and Tesla fits captain's chairs, 325 miles of range, a 4.4-second 0-60, and bundled Full Self-Driving for the first year.
The Launch Series now ranks as Tesla's priciest Model Y, topping even the Performance trim. It arrives in the US almost a year after China got it, with deliveries not expected until September.
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Do you feel okay with the government owning stakes in tech companies?
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