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🚀 Musk pledges SpaceX shares to US kids

🪪 Zoom adds 'proof of human' badges

🤝 Anthropic commits billions to a 'public benefit fund'

🕵️ AI agents broke into 100+ sites at $50 each

🎮 Gemini 4 agents beat Minecraft solo

📱 TikTok restores 'Musk' documentary account

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• Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year, calling it "the first of many" in a post on his X platform.
• With about 72 million Americans under 18 and SpaceX stock at $146 a share, the giveaway would be worth roughly $10.5 billion, though Musk did not say which ages qualify or how he will hand out the shares.
• Musk owns 6.42 billion SpaceX shares, and his pledge follows Anthropic setting aside 5% of its shares for public-good donations, to which he replied that he would instead give stock directly to the public.

• World, the project backed by Sam Altman, has launched "proof of human" badges for Zoom enterprise users that confirm people on video calls are real, fighting AI deepfake impersonation and fraud.
• Now available in the Zoom Marketplace, World ID checks an image from the company's iris-scanning Orb against a live selfie and the video feed, then shows a Human Badge to other meeting participants.
• The global rollout follows AI impersonation cases, including engineering firm Arup losing about $25 million in 2024, and suspected North Korean hackers faking video feeds in Zoom meetings in February to spread malware.

• Anthropic said today it will put 5% of its shares into a new "public benefit fund" to pay for projects meant to help society, with the money set up as a wholly-owned part of the company.
• The fund can grow, with Anthropic promising another 2% of shares for every 50% jump in the company's value, and it may spend on donations to nonprofits or direct payments to certain groups of people.
• Anthropic pointed to AI's effect on jobs, a topic it has already given $200 million to study, and said it will explain who decides which causes get funded in the coming months.

• A Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents on the open-source platform Cairn to break into websites of over 100 companies, with each successful intrusion costing roughly $50 in computing fees.
• NorForge researcher Snorre Fagerland found the hacker's agents targeting online shops in the US, Canada, Japan and Australia, trying to plant web shells for lasting access to payment systems, with attacks taking just under 23 hours on average.
• The work ran on what appeared to be Anthropic's Claude Code paired with DeepSeek's cheap V4.1 Flash model, and victims identified by Reuters included Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, though data theft could not be confirmed.

• Four AI agents powered by Google's Gemini 4 Argon killed Minecraft's final boss, the Ender Dragon, on their own, taking 27 hours and 14 minutes with no human direction, Google DeepMind researchers reported in an arXiv paper.
• The agents each steered a player through Mineflayer, an open-source bot library, by writing short JavaScript programs, 2,783 in all, splitting jobs themselves, swapping 229 chat messages, and dying 605 times, 69 of those to the dragon.
• Reaching the win ate up about 1.35 billion input tokens, costing roughly $520 at Gemini 4 Argon's introductory price; the agents played on Easy with cheats off in a single run, and 22% of their programs failed.

• TikTok has reversed its suspension of the advertising account for the "Musk" documentary, lifting the block yesterday just two days after it took effect and blaming the whole thing on an "error."
• The account was suspended on Friday over ads for the film, which is critical of Elon Musk; he called it a "hit piece," while a Mashable reviewer described the documentary as "brutal and accurate."
• YouTube and Meta earlier refused to run ads for the trailer before reversing course after social media backlash; Alex Gibney's four-hour film has grossed a little over $300,000 since opening last weekend.

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