🎧 Spotify leans hard into AI coding

🏛️ Pentagon pushes AI firms to ease military restrictions

⚡ OpenAI launches faster Codex-Spark coding model

🎥 Seedance 2.0 pushes AI video closer to realism

🚀 China tests new Moon ship and reusable rocket

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Spotify said its top engineers have not written code manually since December, instead using an internal AI system called Honk, powered in part by Claude Code, to build and ship features.

The company says AI has dramatically sped up development, helping it launch more than 50 updates in 2025, with engineers even deploying fixes from their phones before arriving at work.

Spotify believes its unique music data gives it an AI advantage, while it continues to label AI-generated songs and monitor the platform for spam.

The Pentagon is urging major AI companies to loosen safety guardrails so U.S. military personnel can access advanced AI tools within classified networks used for mission planning.

OpenAI reached a deal to deploy ChatGPT on genai.mil, an unclassified Defense Department network serving more than 3 million employees, reportedly removing several standard usage restrictions.

The shift has sparked internal backlash, with some AI researchers leaving firms like Anthropic and OpenAI over safety concerns, while Anthropic has resisted allowing its models to be used for autonomous targeting or domestic surveillance.

OpenAI introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller and faster version of its agentic coding model capable of generating more than 1,000 tokens per second.

The release marks the first OpenAI model to run on chips from Cerebras, signaling an early milestone in a reported $10B+ multi-year partnership and expanding beyond Nvidia-based infrastructure.

Codex-Spark is available as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users, emphasizing speed and responsiveness for real-time coding workflows.

ByteDance’s new AI video model, Seedance 2.0, is rapidly gaining traction online with hyper-realistic clips that are spreading across social media platforms.

Unlike earlier AI video tools that struggled with distortions such as floating objects or unnatural motion, Seedance 2.0 produces footage that appears far more lifelike and coherent.

The leap in realism suggests AI-generated video is crossing the uncanny valley, raising both excitement over creative possibilities and concerns about authenticity.

China conducted an uncrewed test of its Long March 10 rocket and Mengzhou crew capsule, both central to its goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by 2030.

During the flight, the Mengzhou capsule triggered its launch abort system at Max-Q to simulate an emergency escape, then safely deployed parachutes and splashed down off Hainan Island.

After capsule separation, the Long March 10 booster continued into space, reentered the atmosphere, reignited its engines, and completed a propulsive landing in the South China Sea near a recovery vessel.

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