📉 Meta lost 20 million users and blamed Iran and Russia

🖥️ Gemini adds direct file export across Docs, PDF, Excel

🎨 Claude just plugged into Photoshop, Blender, Ableton, and more

🤖 Japan to deploy humanoid robots as baggage handlers at airport

🔬 Mayo Clinic AI can detect pancreatic cancer up to 3 years early

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Meta's "Family daily active people" count dropped by 20 million this quarter, which the company attributes to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp restrictions in Russia, while bundling all platform stats together makes it impossible to verify which apps took the hit.

Revenue grew 33% year-over-year to $56.3 billion, but Meta also raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $125-145 billion, $10 billion above prior estimates, after its CFO admitted the company had underestimated compute demand.

Reality Labs lost $4 billion in a single quarter and just absorbed two rounds of layoffs, yet Meta keeps the division alive, suggesting Zuckerberg's metaverse bet is too personally committed to cut regardless of the numbers.

Google's Gemini can now generate downloadable files directly in chat, supporting formats including PDF, Word, Excel, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, CSV, and Markdown, available globally to all users now.

The feature skips the copy-paste-reformat loop by letting users prompt Gemini to produce a finished file, which can then be downloaded to a device or exported straight to Drive.

ChatGPT has offered file export for a while, so this is less a leap forward and more Gemini closing a gap that was starting to look embarrassing for a Google product.

Anthropic released MCP connectors for eight major creative platforms including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton Live, and Splice, letting Claude work directly inside tools creatives already use.

The connectors cover a wide range of tasks: generating 3D models via conversation in SketchUp, batch-processing assets in Affinity, searching Splice's royalty-free sample catalog, and controlling live visuals in Resolume Arena through natural language.

Anthropic also joined the Blender Development Fund and partnered with RISD, Ringling, and Goldsmiths to embed Claude into creative curricula, suggesting this is a longer-term push into the creative industry rather than a one-time feature drop.

Japan Airlines will begin testing humanoid robots for baggage and cargo handling at Haneda Airport in May, with the trial rolling out in phases before the robots work alongside human staff on the tarmac.

The androids stand 4 feet 3 inches tall, run for two to three hours per charge, and could eventually take on cabin cleaning too. JAL will first map airport conditions before any live deployment begins.

Japan's aging population and shrinking workforce make it a natural testing ground for this, which is precisely the kind of structural condition that turns a "trial run" into a permanent fixture fast.

Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model reviewed nearly 2,000 CT scans previously cleared as normal by specialists, identifying 73% of cases that later became pancreatic cancer diagnoses up to three years out.

At the two-year mark, REDMOD spotted roughly three times more early cancers than experienced radiologists, by reading texture and structural patterns in CT data that human eyes cannot detect.

Pancreatic cancer has a below-15% five-year survival rate, and REDMOD works on scans patients already get, meaning early screening could slot into existing workflows with no added friction.

A) Yes, it's inevitable and better to do it responsibly - 48%

B) No, AI and warfare is a line we shouldn't cross - 52% 🏆