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☀️ On this day: On June 6, 1984, Soviet computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov completed the first playable version of Tetris while testing hardware at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Because he was a government employee, Pajitnov was required to sign over all rights to the state and collected no royalties for a decade. Tetris turns 42 today and remains one of the best-selling games in history, with over 500 million copies sold across all platforms.
What’s happening:
🖥️ Google to pay SpaceX $920M monthly for compute
🤖 Bots now outnumber people on the internet
🕵️ Report: NSA uses Anthropic's Mythos for cyber ops
🕶️ Meta hides face-recognition code in smart glasses
🍔 McDonald's is bringing AI back to the drive-thru
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🖥️ Google to pay SpaceX $920M/month ↗️LINK
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, and memory, according to a Friday SEC filing.
Google frames the deal as a short-term bridge to meet surging demand for Gemini Enterprise, its agent platform. The agreement mirrors Anthropic's late-May deal to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion monthly for Colossus 1 compute.
Google already owns more AI compute than almost anyone, yet here it is renting from a rocket company, one week before SpaceX's record $1.75 trillion IPO.
🤖 Bots now outnumber people on the internet ↗️LINK
Cloudflare says bots now generate more internet traffic than humans for the first time, with roughly 57.4% of visits over the past week coming from bots versus 42.5% from people.
AI agents drive the surge, not old-school crawlers. Agentic bots scour the web to scrape training data and act on behalf of users running AI assistants and chatbots.
Cloudflare's data only counts page visits, not what happens after. Bots load far more pages than humans, who actually read articles and watch videos instead of indexing and bouncing.
🕵️ NSA uses Anthropic's Mythos for cyber ops ↗️LINK
The Financial Times reports the NSA is using Anthropic's cybersecurity model Mythos for "offensive cyber operations," with around half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency to customize it.
The rationale: U.S. adversaries will deploy similar AI, so the NSA wants an early edge against networks in China and Iran. Sources expect the model to help with infiltration, though active operations remain unconfirmed.
The twist is that the DOD labeled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in March, banning it as a vendor. So one arm of the government is using tech another arm officially blacklisted.
🕶️ Meta hides face-recognition code in smart glasses ↗️LINK
Wired found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature called "NameTag" buried in Meta's AI app. It can capture faces via smart glasses and later notify the wearer when it recognizes someone.
The feature isn't enabled or sending biometric data today, but past app versions included related interface elements like a "Connections" menu prompting users to "remember the people you met."
Meta insists nothing has shipped and it isn't building a face database. Still, a memo reportedly noted it wanted to launch during a "dynamic political environment" when critics would be distracted.
🍔 McDonald's tests new AI drive-thru in 5 stores ↗️LINK
McDonald's unveiled Archy IQ at its Worldwide convention, a Google-built AI ordering system now testing in five stores. It has processed over 1 million transactions, with roughly 90% needing no human help.
The system takes orders in English and Spanish and even handled a customer's "usual." McDonald's is installing Google Edge Cloud hardware in every US location to prepare for a wider rollout.
This is McDonald's second swing at drive-thru AI after scrapping its last system in 2024. Customers flooded the comments to say they hate it, which suggests round two faces the same crowd.

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Do you think humans will lose control of AI someday?
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B) No - 9%
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“The real question is what "control" means. We already rely on algorithms for many important decisions today.”
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