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☀️ On this day: On May 24, 1844, inventor Samuel Morse tapped the first official message over America's first long-distance telegraph line, sending "What hath God wrought" from the U.S. Supreme Court chamber in Washington to his partner Alfred Vail in Baltimore, 44 miles away. The phrase was chosen by Annie Ellsworth, the 17-year-old daughter of the Patent Commissioner, drawn from Numbers 23:23 in the Bible. Congress had funded the line with a $30,000 appropriation; within a decade, wires connected most major American cities and the age of instant long-distance communication had begun.
What’s happening:
🚀 Musk ditches Earth solar for space-based power
🧾 Intuit cuts 3,200 employees to fund AI push
📡 Your WiFi router might already know who you are
🤖 DeepSeek cuts flagship V4 Pro prices by 75% for good
🏎️ IBM rebuilds Ferrari's fan app with AI personalization
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Hand-picked news:
🚀 Musk ditches Earth solar for space-based power ↗️LINK
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals Musk is betting on space-based solar to power AI data centers, while xAI runs on dozens of unregulated natural gas turbines with $2.8 billion more in fossil fuel capacity on the way.
SpaceX argues space solar arrays generate five times more energy than ground-based ones via 24/7 illumination, and Musk believes terawatt-scale annual AI compute growth will outpace what Earth's infrastructure can support.
Tesla's 2023 Master Plan promised to "eliminate fossil fuels," but xAI has spent $697 million on Tesla Megapacks and zero on Tesla solar panels.
🧾 Intuit cuts 17% of staff to fund AI push ↗️LINK
Intuit is laying off roughly 3,200 employees, about 17% of its global workforce, to simplify its corporate structure and redirect resources toward AI development across TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma.
CEO Sasan Goodarzi, who took home $36.8 million in fiscal 2025, framed the cuts as a complexity reduction, while Intuit's shares have consistently underperformed the S&P 500 amid fears that AI will erode traditional SaaS businesses.
Intuit posted a 48% jump in net profit last quarter, joining a long list of profitable tech companies that cut thousands of jobs this year while citing AI as both the reason to restructure and the bet they're making with the savings.
🤖 DeepSeek cuts flagship V4 Pro prices by 75% for good ↗️LINK
DeepSeek made its temporary 75% price cut on V4 Pro permanent, dropping token prices from a range of $0.0145–$3.48 to $0.003625–$0.87 per million tokens, effective immediately.
The company framed V4 Pro's launch last month around "cost-effective 1M context length," and locking in the discount extends that pitch beyond a promotional window into its core pricing strategy.
DeepSeek is now a significantly cheaper option than GPT-5 or Gemini 3.5 Flash, which puts pressure on competitors who already have reasons to dislike the company, including Anthropic's prior accusations of distillation attacks.
📡 WiFi signals can identify people with near-perfect accuracy ↗️LINK
German researchers showed that standard WiFi routers can identify individuals by analyzing how radio waves reflect off their bodies, achieving nearly 100% accuracy across 197 test participants, no device required.
The system exploits unencrypted beamforming feedback data that WiFi devices already broadcast constantly, meaning no special hardware or network access is needed, just proximity to any ordinary router.
The researchers are pushing for privacy safeguards in the upcoming IEEE 802.11bf WiFi standard, which is a reasonable ask given that the surveillance infrastructure they're describing already exists in virtually every building on Earth.
🏎️ IBM rebuilds Ferrari's fan app with AI ↗️LINK
Ferrari partnered with IBM to overhaul its fan app, adding AI-written race summaries, predictive games, and a chatbot, targeting a fanbase that grew 75% in new fans, mostly Gen Z women, over the past five years.
IBM is powering personalization by analyzing engagement signals like content preferences and fan message sentiment, then using that data to shape what stories and features the app surfaces to each user.
Ferrari's app engagement jumped 62% over race weekends since the partnership launched, which is a decent early number for a team that couldn't even be bothered to offer the app in Italian before IBM showed up.

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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think Spotify's AI features will make the app better or worse?
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