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🌙 Musk plans AI satellite factory on the Moon 🚪 Half of xAI founding team has now left 🤖 ByteDance develops its own AI chip with Samsung 🚀 SpaceX Super Heavy booster completes four-day cryoproof testing ⚡ Microsoft explores superconductors to power data centers 📀 Sony exits recordable Blu-ray market 🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 2 trending papers & reports
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🌙 Musk plans AI satellite factory on the Moon
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- Elon Musk told xAI employees at an all-hands meeting that the company needs a lunar manufacturing facility — a factory on the moon that would build AI satellites and launch them into space using a giant catapult.
- Musk did not explain how any of this would be built, and the meeting came right after two more xAI co-founders announced they were leaving, bringing total departures to six of the company's 12 founding members.
- The moon push is a recent shift for SpaceX, which focused on Mars for most of its 24-year existence, and it raises legal questions under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty about who can claim or extract lunar resources.
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🚪 Half of xAI founding team has now left
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- Half of xAI's 12-person founding team has now left the company, with co-founder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu becoming the fifth departure after announcing his exit on X Monday night.
- Four of the five departures happened in the last year alone, with founders leaving for OpenAI, new ventures, and personal reasons, though all splits have reportedly been amicable.
- The exits come as xAI faces an upcoming IPO, ongoing issues with Grok's bizarre behavior and deepfake pornography problems, and growing pressure to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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🤖 ByteDance develops its own AI chip with Samsung
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- ByteDance is developing an AI chip codenamed SeedChip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture it, as the TikTok parent company works to secure supply of processors.
- The company aims to receive sample chips by end-March and plans to produce at least 100,000 units designed for AI inference tasks this year, potentially ramping to 350,000 units.
- ByteDance plans to spend over 160 billion yuan ($22 billion) on AI-related procurement this year, with more than half going toward purchasing Nvidia chips and advancing its in-house chip.
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🚀 SpaceX Super Heavy booster completes four-day cryoproof testing
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- SpaceX's upgraded Super Heavy V3 booster has finished a multi-day cryogenic proof test at Massey's Test Site in Texas, passing a stage that destroyed the previous booster back in November.
- Ground crews loaded super-cold liquid nitrogen into the 237-foot stainless-steel rocket four times over six days, testing its redesigned propellant systems and structural strength under repeated thermal and pressurization cycles.
- Technicians will now mount 33 Raptor 3 engines, which are lighter and produce more thrust, with plumbing and sensors built into the main structure, removing the need for heat shields between engines.
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⚡ Microsoft explores superconductors to power data centers
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- Microsoft is researching high-temperature superconductors as a way to transmit electricity to its data centers without the voltage drops or heat loss that come with traditional copper and aluminum wires.
- HTS cables are lighter, take up less space, and only need a 2-meter-wide trench instead of the 70 meters of clearance that overhead lines typically require to prevent electrical interference between cables.
- The company faces a real challenge: HTS materials still need cryogenic cooling around -200 degrees C, and Microsoft is pursuing this partly because CEO Satya Nadella said it has idle AI GPUs due to insufficient electricity.
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📀 Sony exits recordable Blu-ray market
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- Sony will stop selling all of its recordable Blu-ray disc recorders globally this month, ending shipments of remaining models sequentially after February 2026, with no successor models planned.
- The company said the cold storage market never took off as hoped, and it had already confirmed in January 2025 it was leaving the recordable media market entirely.
- Sony's standard Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray players are not affected, though the future is uncertain as TCL takes over Sony's home entertainment division next year.
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"Discord alternatives" searches jump 10,000% overnight as the gaming platform introduces global age verification — Is a total collapse imminent?
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OpenAI deploys custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, providing secure AI tools for military personnel.
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Mistral's revenue grows 20x in one year as Europe pushes for AI independence
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OpenAI's Deep Research now runs on GPT-5.2 and lets users search specific websites
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Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
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OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim
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A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control
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Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads
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Cloudflare pops 10% as AI agent wave led by viral Moltbot boosts security demand
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Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation
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🧰 Trending tools
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happycapy: browser-based AI coding environment powered by Claude that runs without installation, letting you build and execute code directly in-browser or mobile.
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Atyla: monitors brand mentions across AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, helping marketing teams optimize visibility in AI-generated responses.
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Tines: a no-code automation platform that lets you build security workflows, integrate tools, and orchestrate incident response without writing code or managing infrastructure.
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Doraverse's All-in-One AI for Meetings: orchestrates multiple AI models in a secure workspace to handle meeting transcription, summaries, and collaborative tasks with enterprise-grade controls.
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Willow for Developers: a voice dictation tool that converts natural speech into formatted text across any application, eliminating filler words and reducing typing by up to 90%.
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Showboat and Rodney: tools enabling AI agents to create and share interactive demonstrations of applications they've built autonomously.
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You can check the previous tools here, or add your tool here
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Researchers warn about cherry-picking AI results: testing multiple models or tweaks then reporting only the best outcome inflates performance claims, misleading other scientists about what actually works.
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Removing AI Safety with One Prompt: feeding a language model a single carefully chosen phrase can erase its safety training, making it answer harmful questions it normally refuses.
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