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☀️ On this day: On May 13, 1880, Thomas Edison ran the first test of his electric railway at Menlo Park, New Jersey, personally driving a 32-horsepower locomotive hauling three cars around a U-shaped, three-quarter-mile track at speeds up to 42 mph. Edison powered the rails directly with DC current from his generators rather than onboard batteries, a design that influenced the electrified third-rail systems still used in subway networks today. The actual locomotive and two of its cars survive at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
What’s happening:
🛰️ Google and SpaceX in talks to build orbital data centers
💰 Meta allegedly kept the scam ads flowing to hit revenue targets
⚖️ Altman says Musk wanted to hand OpenAI to his kids
💻 Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
🎮 eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover bid
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🛰️ Google and SpaceX in talks to build orbital data centers ↗️LINK
Google and SpaceX are in early talks to launch data centers into orbit, with SpaceX pitching space-based AI compute as the cheapest option available within a few years, per the Wall Street Journal.
The talks align with SpaceX's upcoming $1.75T IPO pitch to investors, and follow a separate deal where Anthropic agreed to use xAI computing resources, with potential future collaboration on orbital infrastructure.
Elon Musk is selling the vision hard, but TechCrunch's math tells a different story: once you factor in satellite construction and launch costs, space-based data centers are currently far more expensive than ground ones.
💰 Meta allegedly kept the scam ads flowing ↗️LINK
Santa Clara County sued Meta on Monday, claiming internal documents show the company earned up to $7B annually from "high-risk" ads with obvious signs of fraud on Facebook and Instagram.
The complaint alleges Meta built internal guardrails that throttled anti-scam enforcement whenever it threatened ad revenue, and allowed intermediaries to sell protected ad accounts to bad actors.
The lawsuit's sharpest claim is that Meta could dial scam ad volume up or down to hit specific earnings targets, which would make fraud less a platform problem and more a financial instrument.
⚖️ Altman says Musk wanted to hand OpenAI to his kids ↗️LINK
Sam Altman took the stand in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, testifying that during 2017 funding debates, Musk suggested OpenAI should pass to his children if he died while controlling its for-profit arm.
Altman said Musk's management style damaged the research culture, citing a forced stack-ranking exercise that had researchers "chainsaw" ranked, leaving lasting harm to the organization's morale.
Musk sued claiming OpenAI abandoned its safety mission, but Altman's testimony flips that narrative: he says it was Musk's push for personal control that made him worry about safety in the first place.
💻 Google announces Googlebook laptops ↗️LINK
Google teased a new laptop line called Googlebooks, running a fusion of Android and ChromeOS, with Gemini baked in throughout, built alongside Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo for a fall launch.
The OS, codenamed Aluminium, lets Googlebooks run Android apps, access files directly from your phone, and features a shake-activated AI pointer that surfaces contextual suggestions based on what's on screen.
Google confirmed Chromebooks will still launch after Googlebooks arrive and will keep their support commitments, but conspicuously dodged any question about where its actual focus will be going forward.
🎮 eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover bid ↗️LINK
GameStop offered $125 per share to acquire eBay, a company worth four times its own $11B market cap, financing the $56B deal with half cash, half GameStop stock, and $20B in borrowed funds.
eBay's board called the bid "neither credible nor attractive," citing concerns about financing and debt, especially after CEO Ryan Cohen couldn't explain where the remaining capital would come from.
Cohen stands to personally pocket $35B in stock if GameStop hits a $100B valuation, which gives him every reason to swing big on acquisitions, even ones the target finds laughable.

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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think EU's block is more about data security or just politics?
A) Security - 61% 🏆
B) Politics - 39%
Reader’s opinion:
“Security and Politics are the same answer. Can't trust the current USA gov't; therefore, it is security.”
“They may have some skills, but they haven't made the major investment in networking their space, so they don't really have the tools they need to compete with the giants.”
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