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🚀 OpenAI joins AI chip race
🧒 Instagram makes all teen accounts PG-13
🤖 Slack turns Slackbot into a personal AI assistant
🖼️ Microsoft debuts its first in-house image model
🛰️ NASA to retire ISS in 2030 for new space era
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🚀 OpenAI joins AI chip race ↗️LINK
What: OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to create its own AI chips, called accelerators, capable of delivering 10 gigawatts of computing power. OpenAI will design the chips using what it’s learned from building advanced models, while Broadcom will handle production and networking. The first racks will go live in 2026, with full deployment by 2029.
Why: Building in-house chips helps OpenAI lower costs, boost performance, and reduce reliance on Nvidia and AMD.
Impact: Broadcom’s stock jumped 10%, and if these chips succeed, OpenAI could reshape how AI systems are powered worldwide.
🧒 Instagram makes all teen accounts PG-13 ↗️LINK
What: Instagram is rolling out a major update that makes every teen account “PG-13.” Teens will no longer see content with nudity, sexual themes, strong profanity, or risky stunts. The platform will also block entire accounts posting 18+ material or linking to adult sites like OnlyFans.
Why: The move aims to make Instagram safer and easier for parents to trust, giving them tools to control and review what teens see.
Impact: Starting in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, the update will expand globally by year’s end—setting a new standard for teen safety across Meta’s apps.
🤖 Slack turns Slackbot into a personal AI assistant ↗️LINK
What: Slack is testing a major upgrade that transforms Slackbot from a simple reminder tool into a full AI assistant. The new version can summarize chats, search messages in natural language, plan projects, gather info from channels, and even coordinate meetings through Outlook or Google Calendar.
Why: Slack wants to make work easier by automating repetitive tasks and surfacing key information quickly, acting like a personalized AI coworker.
Impact: Already in use by 70,000 Salesforce employees, the AI Slackbot rolls out to all users by year’s end, marking a big step in Slack’s push toward intelligent workplaces.
🖼️ Microsoft debuts its first in-house image model ↗️LINK
What: Microsoft launched MAI-Image-1, its first homegrown text-to-image model built to generate fast, photorealistic visuals. The model quickly entered LMArena’s top 10 leaderboard, ranking 9th, thanks to its focus on realistic results and reduced generic styles.
Why: Microsoft designed the model to power Bing Image Creator and Copilot, strengthening its control over creative AI tools and reducing reliance on OpenAI’s tech.
Impact: As Microsoft expands its MAI series, it’s signaling a shift toward self-developed AI systems—building independence in a field it once outsourced.
🛰️ NASA to retire ISS in 2030 for new space era ↗️LINK
What: NASA will deorbit the International Space Station in 2030, ending 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit. Since 2000, the ISS has hosted over 4,000 experiments, advancing medicine, materials science, and astronomy while symbolizing global cooperation in space.
Why: The agency plans to shift to privately built space stations, funding companies to design and operate new orbital habitats that NASA can later rent for missions and research.
Impact: The transition marks a new era of commercial spaceflight. As the ISS era ends, China’s Tiangong may become the world’s only continuously crewed station—at least for a while.
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