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🚀 SpaceX's Starship V3 passes its first test flight despite engine failures

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Spotify announced a wave of AI features at its investor day, including AI-generated audiobooks via ElevenLabs, AI music covers under a Universal Music Group deal, and personal podcasts built from users' emails and calendars.

A new experimental desktop app connects to a user's email, notes, and calendar to generate personalized audio briefings, with language in the product description hinting at agentic AI that can autonomously complete tasks on a user's behalf.

Spotify is using AI to solve a discovery problem that more AI content is actively making worse. The more the platform fills with generated audio, the harder it gets to surface the human-made content that built its user base.

A Gallup poll of 1,000 adults found more than 2/3 oppose data centers near their homes, with 55% of women strongly opposed versus 43% of men. A majority said they'd prefer a nuclear plant nearby instead.

Opposition centers on resource use: data centers consume massive amounts of water for cooling, plus land and electricity, with environmental and health burdens falling disproportionately on low-income communities of color near construction sites.

Data centers are becoming a rare bipartisan issue heading into November midterms, with candidates across both parties staking out opposition. In New Mexico, a first-time candidate running against a $165 billion mega data center just picked up a Bernie Sanders endorsement.

Trump postponed signing an executive order that would have required government security evaluations of AI models before release, citing language he felt could slow American AI leadership over China.

The shelved order would have tasked federal agencies with vetting AI models for security risks, partly in response to Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber, both capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at speed.

A key sticking point was a requirement for AI companies to share models with the government 14 to 90 days before launch. Reports also suggest not enough tech CEOs could make the trip to DC for the photo op.

Google's new AI-first search interface, which buries traditional links beneath AI summaries, is already producing visible failures. Searching the word "disregard" now returns a blank AI response with a Merriam-Webster link buried below empty space.

The redesign, which rolled out this week, pushes AI summaries to the top of every results page and kicks the traditional link format far down. For simple dictionary lookups, the AI has nothing useful to add but takes up the space anyway.

The breakdown is embarrassing enough that multiple users on social media noted Bing handled the same search better, a sentence that has rarely been typed in the history of search engines.

SpaceX launched Starship V3 from Starbase, Texas on Friday, with the Super Heavy booster igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines before one shut down mid-ascent. The upper stage still reached its planned trajectory, deployed 20 Starlink simulators, and splashed down in the Indian Ocean.

The booster pulled off a directional flip but failed to complete a full boostback burn, crashing into the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to the launch site. SpaceX never planned to recover this booster, so the crash was expected.

The timing is not subtle: SpaceX publicly filed IPO paperwork this week, with shares expected to start trading June 12. A successful Starship test flight right before an IPO is about as convenient as rocket science gets.

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