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🚗 Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay 🤖 Crypto.com founder buys AI.com in 'largest domain purchase in history' 💸 Korean exchange accidentally sends $44 billion in Bitcoin 📰 Apple criticized for low-quality ads on Apple News 🏦 Erebor becomes first new US bank chartered under Trump 🛣️ Waymo uses Genie 3 to simulate rare driving scenarios 🎁 + 12 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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🚗 Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay
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- Apple is working on letting third-party AI voice apps like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini run directly inside CarPlay, ending Siri's long reign as the only voice assistant allowed in the interface.
- Drivers won't be able to replace Siri's wake word or dedicated button; instead, they will need to launch a specific third-party AI app first, which can automatically turn on voice mode when opened.
- Apple is also building its own Siri improvements, including a feature called "World Knowledge Answers" that fetches and summarizes online information, with that upgrade expected to arrive later this year.
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🤖 Crypto.com founder buys AI.com in 'largest domain purchase in history'
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- Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek bought the AI.com domain for $70 million and launched a new AI agent platform under that brand, with a Super Bowl commercial planned for Sunday.
- The company says AI.com will let users create a private, personal AI agent that can send messages, build projects, trade stocks, and even update a dating profile on their behalf.
- The $70 million deal is called the largest domain purchase in history, though undisclosed sales may have been bigger, and Cars.com was once listed as an intangible asset worth $872.3 million.
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💸 Korean exchange accidentally sends $44 billion in Bitcoin
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- South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb confirmed it accidentally sent 620,000 bitcoin — worth roughly $43 billion — to 695 customers due to a clerical error involving a promotional reward.
- Some customers immediately sold the misallocated funds, causing a temporary 10% price drop on the exchange, but Bithumb limited withdrawals and says it recovered 99.7% of the bitcoin.
- The error highlights the concept of "paper bitcoin," since Bithumb holds roughly $5.3 billion in assets according to Arkham Intelligence, far less than the $43 billion it mistakenly awarded.
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📰 Apple criticized for low-quality ads on Apple News
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- Apple is facing criticism for showing low-quality, scam-looking ads on Apple News, a problem linked to its controversial partnership with ad-tech company Taboola that was first reported in 2024.
- Tech reporter Kirk McElhearn shared examples of suspicious ads on Apple News featuring AI-generated product images, recently created company domains, and one ad that still showed a Google Gemini watermark.
- The situation is a bad look for Apple's growing push to bring more ads across its ecosystem, especially since Apple News+ still shows ads despite costing $13 per month.
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🏦 Erebor becomes first new US bank chartered under Trump
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- Erebor, a technology-focused company supporting the crypto industry founded by Palmer Luckey, has become the first new nationally chartered bank approved under the Trump administration by the OCC.
- The bank is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and others, with about $635 million in initial financing and a reported valuation that reached $4 billion late last year.
- Erebor plans to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 failure, serving startups with loans backed by cryptocurrency or privately held securities and blockchain-based payments that settle around the clock.
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🛣️ Waymo uses Genie 3 to simulate rare driving scenarios
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- Waymo built a new simulation tool called the Waymo World Model, powered by Google DeepMind's Genie 3, to generate realistic driving scenarios — like elephants or tornadoes — that its cars have never encountered.
- Unlike most industry simulation models that train only on a company's own driving data, this system draws on Genie 3's broad knowledge from pre-training on a massive and diverse video dataset.
- The model generates both camera and lidar data, and engineers can control simulations through driving actions, scene layout changes, or text prompts that describe weather, time of day, or synthetic scenes.
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China broadens its crackdown on cryptocurrencies
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This is the Trump Phone
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An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax
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Apple says ‘random or anonymous chat’ apps no longer welcome on the App Store
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Randomly quoting Ray Bradbury did not save lawyer from losing case over AI errors
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Death of Software. Nah.
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New Alexa’s issues are already making some users return to old Siri
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Claude Opus 4.6 wrote mustard gas instructions in an Excel spreadsheet during Anthropic's own safety testing
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Salesforce to stop selling enterprise Heroku subscriptions, scale back upgrades
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From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads
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🧰 Trending tools
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Vecti: a minimalist UI design tool focused on core features like pixel-perfect snapping, canvas rendering, shared libraries, and export capabilities.
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InspireNote: a lightweight note-taking app with 100+ creative prompt cards to help you brainstorm problems from different perspectives and capture ideas.
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Memory Vault Recovery: splits encryption keys into shares using Shamir secret sharing, requiring multiple trusted contacts to restore access after memory loss.
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Quash: a mobile testing tool that executes tests written in plain language on real or cloud devices with self-healing capabilities when UI changes.
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Obooko: a free, ad-supported platform offering 4,000+ legal ebooks across 30 genres with instant browser reading, cross-device sync, and open format downloads.
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Skillkit: a universal CLI that auto-generates reusable instructions for AI coding agents, persisting learnings across Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and 28+ other tools via shared networks.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Training AI with human preferences works better than scores: people comparing two responses teach models more effectively than numerical ratings because comparisons are easier and more consistent.
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