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• 🏛️ Meta wins landmark antitrust battle

• 🤖 Google launches Gemini 3, its smartest AI yet

• 🎛️ TikTok adds controls for AI-generated content

• 🌕 Starship delays push NASA moon landing to 2028

• ✋ New wearable lets you control robots with gestures

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🏛️ Meta wins landmark antitrust battle ↗️LINK

• What: Meta won a major antitrust case after a judge ruled it does not currently hold a monopoly in social networking. This decision means Meta won’t be forced to separate Instagram or WhatsApp from the company.

• Why: The judge said the FTC didn’t prove Meta still has monopoly power, noting the market has changed a lot since 2020. TikTok and other apps now compete directly with Meta’s platforms.

• Impact: Meta avoids a breakup, regulators lose a big case, and the ruling may make it harder to challenge Big Tech using older definitions of competition.

🤖 Google launches Gemini 3, its smartest AI yet ↗️LINK

• What: Google is rolling out Gemini 3 Pro, a more accurate, multimodal AI that handles text, images, and audio together. It powers new features in the Gemini app and Search, including richer visuals, dynamic layouts, and stronger coding tools.

• Why: Google aims to leap ahead of competitors by offering clearer, less flattering responses, better reasoning, and tools that understand user intent more deeply.

• Impact: Users get smarter search results, interactive visuals, and agent-like abilities that can plan tasks, organize email, and even help book trips.

🎛️ TikTok adds controls for AI-generated content ↗️LINK

• What: TikTok now lets users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed through a new slider in “Manage Topics.” The app is also testing invisible watermarks to better label AI-made videos, adding to its existing C2PA metadata system.

• Why: Realistic AI videos are exploding on TikTok as Meta and OpenAI push AI-only feeds. Users want more control, and platforms need stronger labeling to prevent confusion.

• Impact: The update gives users clearer content choices, strengthens authenticity tools, and pairs with a new $2M AI literacy fund to boost public awareness.

🌕 Starship delays push NASA moon landing to 2028 ↗️LINK

• What: An internal SpaceX document shows Starship milestones running late, pushing NASA’s Artemis 3 astronaut moon landing from 2027 to at least September 2028. Key tests—orbital refueling in 2026 and an uncrewed lunar landing in 2027—must succeed first.

• Why: Starship’s mixed test results and the complexity of proving full-system reusability have slowed progress. The vehicle must master cryogenic fuel transfer and multiple in-orbit refueling runs.

• Impact: NASA’s lunar schedule slips again, widening the gap between Artemis missions and underscoring how dependent the program is on Starship’s development pace.

✋ New wearable lets you control robots with gestures ↗️LINK

• What: UC San Diego engineers built a wearable armband that reads your arm gestures accurately—even while running, shaking, or moving through rough waves. It uses soft sensors and AI to clean up noisy motion data in real time.

• Why: Most gesture devices stop working when your body moves too much. This system removes that motion noise so it can understand your gestures clearly.

• Impact: It could help patients, workers, and divers control robots hands-free in real-life conditions, making gesture tech far more reliable and useful.

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