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ERIC SCHMIDT JOINS RELATIVITY SPACE AS CEO

Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt is now CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup - this is Schmidt's first CEO job since he left Google nearly 15 years ago. Schmidt has made a significant investment in Relativity Space and has a controlling stake in the company. Tim Ellis, co-founder and former CEO of Relativity Space, will continue to support the company as a director on the company's board. Relativity Space is gearing up for the launch of its Terran R rocket, scheduled for 2026. The company has so far struck nearly $3 billion in launch contracts with customers.

APPLE READIES DRAMATIC SOFTWARE OVERHAUL FOR IPHONE, IPAD, AND MAC

Apple is planning to transform the interface for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac for a new generation of users later this year. The revamp will fundamentally change the look of Apple's operating systems and make the company's software platforms more consistent. The company is working to simplify the way users navigate and control their devices. The new design is loosely based on the Vision Pro's software. Apple is betting that a breakthrough new interface will help spur demand after a dip in sales.

OZEMPIC'S NEW FRONTIER: THE WAR ON AGING

A growing body of research indicates that GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, show promise in preventing age-related conditions like Alzheimer's, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers. The class of drugs works by suppressing appetite and reducing inflammation, which may potentially contribute to their preventive health benefits. More robust studies are still needed to confirm the causal effects of GLP-1s on longevity and healthspan.

MICROPLASTICS HINDER PLANT PHOTOSYNTHESIS, STUDY FINDS, THREATENING MILLIONS WITH STARVATION

Microplastic pollution is significantly cutting food supplies by damaging plants' ability to photosynthesize. Between 4% to 14% of the world's staple crops are currently estimated to be lost due to the pervasive particles. The effect could get worse as more microplastics enter the environment. The world is already facing a challenge to produce sufficient food sustainably, and it is also facing crop losses due to climate change. These adverse effects are highly likely to extend from food security to planetary health - reduced photosynthesis may also cut the amount of carbon dioxide taken from the atmosphere.

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CLAUDE CODE IS EXPENSIVE, RECKLESS, AND WEIRDLY FUN

Cursor is the clear winner when precise context is crucial, but Claude Code excels in vibe coding. Vibe coding is when you interact more than you read or write code - it is a development mode that is somewhat reckless, but fun. This approach gets expensive, but it is far less cognitively intense. Claude Code excels at boring tasks and at extending features, but due to lower supervision by design, it suits smaller or less critical projects at best. It is relatively expensive compared to more comprehensive tools.

I QUIT MY FAANG JOB BECAUSE IT'LL BE AUTOMATED BY THE END OF 2025

The evidence points to a scenario where engineering and other pure knowledge works will soon be mostly done by AI agents. Those who formerly held jobs that AI took over will act as AI agent wranglers. There are still factors of production other than intelligence, many that are intrinsically tied to being a human, that should retain economic value. There are many jobs that, even if they could be done very well by AI systems, people wouldn't want to use AI systems to do them, for example, sales.

THE MODEL IS THE PRODUCT

Generalist scaling is stalling, opinionated training is working much better than expected, and inference costs are in free fall. Investors have been betting on the application layer, which is likely to be the first to be automated in disrupted in the next stage of AI evolution. AI companies that form a complete upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem will not need to make their own applications. Big labs will likely shift partnerships from API customers to contractors involved in the earlier training stage.

HOW THE AI TALENT RACE IS RESHAPING THE TECH JOB MARKET

The debut of ChatGPT was a turning point for the AI job market. Many more companies became aware of the power of integrating AI into products and workflows. New AI-related postings rose 68% between the time ChatGPT was released through to the end of last year while tech postings were down 27% over the same period. Engineers without AI skills can still fare well in the job market, but AI skills tend to fetch premium pay and job security.

DEVELOPER CONVICTED FOR “KILL SWITCH” CODE ACTIVATED UPON HIS TERMINATION

Developer Davis Lu faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employee's network, allegedly costing the company hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

IN ANOTHER CHESS MOVE WITH MICROSOFT, OPENAI IS POURING $12B INTO COREWEAVE

OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with CoreWeave, a GPU-heavy cloud service provider.

INVESTORS WANT A PIECE OF DEEPSEEK. ITS FOUNDER SAYS NOT NOW

DeepSeek's founder has rejected investment proposals due to fears that outsiders would interfere with his company's decisions and that Chinese-government-linked investors could make it harder to win global adoption of its AI models.

WHAT WENT WRONG AT SAUDI ARABIA'S FUTURISTIC METROPOLIS IN THE DESERT

The dreams of the sci-fi-inspired project have collided with reality.

DOJ: GOOGLE MUST SELL CHROME, ANDROID COULD BE NEXT

The government will vet potential buyers to ensure that the sale doesn't pose a national security threat.

WE'VE BEEN WRONG ABOUT MATH FOR 2300 YEARS

There's no general consensus among mathematicians about what math is, but we may finally be in a position to fix this due to recent progress in neurology and machine learning.