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❌ Zuckerberg rejects AI slowdown

⚖️ FTC chair doubts AI antitrust waiver

🚀 SpaceX targets first Starship orbit

💰 Senate blocks crypto rules over Trump ties

💾 SK Hynix may partner with Intel

👓 Meta may launch camera-free smart glasses

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• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI labs don't need an industry-wide deal to slow development when safety worries come up, arguing instead that each company should move at whatever pace lets it train models safely.
• In a post on X on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said market pressure will turn trust and alignment, making sure AI follows what users want, into a competitive edge, and warned that any lab ignoring alignment will fall behind.
• He pointed to Meta holding back its Muse model for several months to improve safety without asking rival labs to do the same first, saying, "We just did it," as Anthropic and others push for coordinated pauses.

• The head of the FTC, Andrew Ferguson, said "everyone should be deeply suspicious" of AI companies asking Washington for both antitrust exemptions and new regulations, warning the combination could shield big firms from competition.
• Ferguson's remarks, made at Georgetown University, were the first sign of how the Trump administration views Anthropic's request, after CEO Dario Amodei asked last week for a narrow waiver letting rivals coordinate a slower, safer pace of AI development.
• Antitrust experts and rivals pushed back, saying existing law already permits coordination to prevent catastrophic risks; Cohere co-founder Aidan Gomez called the plan another attempt by Silicon Valley incumbents to shape AI rules in their favor.

• SpaceX is aiming to send Starship into a real orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight, targeting September 22, after all 13 earlier missions flew shorter suborbital arcs that reentered within the hour.
• If it works, Starship will circle Earth about six times at roughly 275 kilometers over ten hours, then splash down in the Pacific west of Chile, and it will try to release working Starlink V3 satellites into orbit.
• Each V3 satellite carries about one terabit per second of downlink, so a good drop would be SpaceX's biggest bandwidth gain yet, though Flight 14 skips a tower catch of the ship, with only the Super Heavy booster attempting recovery.

• The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance a bill setting new rules for cryptocurrency, with Democrats blocking it on a 49-50 vote after demanding tighter ethics limits on President Trump's own crypto holdings.
• Trump offered concessions, including barring elected officials from launching digital assets like the meme coins he and Melania released, but Democrats said the plan lacked enforcement and a requirement for presidents to sell off large holdings.
• Trump reported over $1.4 billion from crypto last year, including more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial, and Republicans warned the bill, called the Clarity Act, could now stall until after the November midterm elections.

• SK Hynix is in talks to make memory chips in the US for the first time, possibly by leasing part of Intel's Ohio site or forming a joint venture with Intel and cloud providers, according to Reuters.
• No deal has been reached, and both companies stayed quiet, though front-end memory production could begin within five years, adding to SK Hynix's $4 billion packaging plant already being built in West Lafayette, Indiana.
• The push follows a warning from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that Korean and Taiwanese chipmakers could face tariffs of up to 100% without US operations, and after the report Intel rose about 5% and SK Hynix's US shares about 3%.

• Meta is working on a pair of smart glasses called Luna that leaves out the camera, and it could start shipping the new model as soon as next month, according to The Information.
• Instead of a camera, Luna will pack six microphones and speakers aimed at the user's ears, plus a side button that quickly wakes up Meta's AI chatbot for hands-free talking.
• Coming in two styles named Clubmaster and Burbank, Luna will have slimmer temples that make it look like ordinary eyewear, and Meta may show it off at its Connect conference next week.

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