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In today's Techpresso:
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🌕 SpaceX shifts focus to self-growing Moon city 📈 Sam Altman says ChatGPT is “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth” 🔐 Discord will require age verification for full access ⚖️ EU warns Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots 🇹🇼 Taiwan rejects moving 40% of chip production to US 🎁 + 11 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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🌕 SpaceX shifts focus to self-growing Moon city
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- SpaceX is now prioritizing the construction of a self-growing city on the Moon over Mars, with Elon Musk saying on X that the Moon is faster and could be achieved in under 10 years.
- SpaceX can launch to the Moon every 10 days with a two-day trip, compared to Mars launches every 26 months and six-month travel times, letting the company iterate much faster.
- Musk also connected the recent xAI acquisition to this effort, combining AI, rockets, internet satellites, and social media to build working Moon systems like bases and factories that don't rely on Earth.
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📈 Sam Altman says ChatGPT is “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth”
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT has returned to exceeding 10% monthly growth, signaling a rebound in user activity for the company's artificial intelligence chatbot.
- The update was shared internally, with Altman communicating the growth milestone directly to OpenAI staff rather than announcing it through a public channel or press release.
- The phrasing "back to" suggests ChatGPT's monthly growth had previously dipped below the 10% mark before recovering to its current pace, though specific earlier figures were not provided.
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🔐 Discord will require age verification for full access
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- Discord announced that starting in March, every user worldwide must verify their age through a face scan or submitted ID, or they will automatically receive teen-level access restrictions on the platform.
- All accounts will default to a teen designation, which includes updated communication settings, restricted access to age-gated spaces, and content filtering until the user completes the verification process.
- Discord says identity documents submitted to its vendor partners are deleted quickly after age confirmation, and a user's age verification status cannot be seen by other people on the platform.
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⚖️ EU warns Meta to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots
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- The European Union has formally charged Meta with antitrust violations for blocking rival AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity from WhatsApp, and regulators may force the company to reverse the policy.
- Meta's policy, effective January 15, 2026, prohibits AI providers from using the WhatsApp Business API when artificial intelligence is the primary service, making Meta AI the sole assistant for three billion users.
- Italy already forced Meta to suspend the ban for Italian phone numbers, Brazil opened its own investigation after complaints from AI companies, and Meta could face fines up to 10 percent of global revenue.
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🇹🇼 Taiwan rejects moving 40% of chip production to US
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- Taiwan's vice premier publicly rejected the United States' demand to move 40 percent of the island's semiconductor manufacturing to American soil, calling the plan impossible given existing infrastructure.
- US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has threatened to raise Taiwan's import tariffs from 15 percent to as high as 100 percent if production targets are not met by 2029.
- Cheng described chip manufacturing with an "iceberg" analogy, explaining that factories depend on a vast local network of suppliers and specialized businesses that currently do not exist in America.
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Jony Ive Ferrari interior might be a glimpse of the Apple Car that never was
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ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 supposedly ‘surpasses Sora 2′
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ChatGPT will start rolling out ads today, per report
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AI notetakers are creating HR nightmares
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Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e
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A rare look inside Google’s most secretive Pixel Hardware Labs
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The great Chinese EV exodus
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New benchmark shows AI models still hallucinate far too often
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Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs
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🧰 Trending tools
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SuperX: automates Twitter growth with viral post inspiration, AI rewrites in your voice, optimal scheduling, targeted engagement suggestions, and analytics tracking.
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Unicorne: a real-time leaderboard tracking the 20 fastest-growing tech startups with hourly-updated, verified revenue data from major payment platforms.
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Longest Line of Sight on Earth: exhaustively searches Earth's surface using Rust and SIMD to find the longest possible unobstructed view between two points.
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Umbrel Pro: a plug-and-play home server running umbrelOS that lets you self-host 300+ apps without subscriptions, keeping your data local and private.
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rivva: an AI task manager that schedules demanding work during your peak focus hours by analyzing sleep, energy patterns, and cognitive load alongside your calendar.
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Dropstone 3: a coding AI engine using recursive swarm architecture to simulate thousands of code paths simultaneously, catching errors before execution through divergent trajectory analysis.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Social Media Use Declined 20% Since 2020: fewer Americans now use these platforms, those who remain scatter across multiple sites, and Republicans and Democrats increasingly choose different platforms.
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