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Sam Altman told employees on Friday that ChatGPT is back to exceeding
10% monthly growth. The company is preparing to launch an updated Chat
model this week. OpenAI has officially begun testing ads within
ChatGPT. The company expects ads to make up less than half of its
revenue long term. Fundraising talks are expected to heat up over the
next two weeks.

AIRPODS PRO 4 COULD FEATURE CAMERAS TO 'SEE AROUND YOU' (2 MINUTE
READ) [6]

The next AirPods Pro will be able to see its surroundings to provide
hand gesture recognition and create an enhanced spatial audio
experience with the Apple Vision Pro headset. They will be released at
the same $249 price as the current model. Apple tends to wait around
three years to make major changes to AirPods, so it is unclear whether
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SpaceX is pivoting its focus from building a settlement on Mars to
building a 'self-growing' city on the Moon. Elon Musk says that a Moon settlement could be achieved in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would
take more than 20 years. SpaceX was founded with the original goal of
settling Mars. However, focusing on the Moon, SpaceX is making a
decision that benefits NASA and the US.

DECODING CHINA'S NEW SPACE PHILOSOPHY (4 MINUTE READ) [8]

China recently released a plan that lays out its priorities for 2026
through 2030 that contains plenty of ambitious goals for the space
sector. The country plans to harvest water from space in the
not-too-distant future, with the next five years focused on tech demos
on things like robot drills and in-orbit processing. China's plans
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OPUS 4.6, CODEX 5.3, AND THE POST-BENCHMARK ERA (10 MINUTE READ) [11]


OpenAI and Anthropic both recently unveiled the next iterations of
their coding assistants. Benchmarks are getting less and less
meaningful as coding assistants get better. Over time, the industry
will develop better ways of articulating the differences in agentic
models, but for now, people will have to experience them for
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MEET THE ONE WOMAN ANTHROPIC TRUSTS TO TEACH AI MORALS (15 MINUTE
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Amanda Askell is the resident philosopher at Anthropic. She spends
her days learning reasoning patterns and talking to the model to build
its personality and address misfires. Her role's aim is to endow
Claude with a sense of morality. She's training Claude to detect the
difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique
personality traits.

REDDIT SAYS 80 MILLION PEOPLE NOW USE ITS SEARCH WEEKLY (3 MINUTE
READ) [13]

80 million people are now using Reddit search every week after Reddit
merged its core search with its AI-powered Reddit Answers. People are
now starting and completing searches on the platform without ever
touching Google. Reddit is now the most-cited source in AI-generated
answers. The company sees AI summaries as an opportunity to move users
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OF COURSE THEY'RE PUTTING ADS IN AI (14 MINUTE READ) [14]

Ads are the best way to bring a service on the internet to the
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ELON MUSK'S GO-TO BANKER IS BACK IN ACTION FOR THE SPACEX IPO (3
MINUTE READ) [15]

Michael Grimes has rejoined Morgan Stanley as chairman of investment
banking after leaving a year ago to take a role leading the Commerce Department's Investment Accelerator.

OPENAI STARTS TESTING ADS IN CHATGPT (2 MINUTE READ) [16]

ChatGPT Free and Go users will start seeing ads based on their topic
of conversation, prior chats, and previous interaction with ads.

GOOGLE: ACTUALLY, AI HASN'T HURT SEARCH AT ALL. IN FACT, IT'S
ACCELERATING IT (5 MINUTE READ) [17]

Google Search revenue growth accelerated every single quarter in
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Stripe has set up frequent tenders since 2024 to let employees sell
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