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TESLA PROPOSES MUSK PAY PACKAGE WORTH AS MUCH AS $1 TRILLION OVER DECADE

Tesla's board is asking investors to approve a pay package that could deliver Elon Musk as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade. The deal would allow Musk to receive installments of shares if Tesla hits a series of market capitalization and business milestones. The maximum payout would give him an additional 12% stake in Tesla, but the company would have to reach a market value nearly eight times its current valuation. The unprecedented pay package is aimed at keeping Musk focused on the company.

EVERYTHING APPLE PLANS TO SHOW AT TUESDAY'S ‘AWE DROPPING' IPHONE 17 EVENT

Apple plans to announce its next-generation iPhone lineup, new smartwatches, and other peripherals at a product launch event tomorrow. There will be four new iPhone models, including what will likely be called the iPhone 17 Air, a model approximately one-third thinner than the iPhone 16 Pro. It will have the same A19 processor as the iPhone 17, but can only support eSIMs due to its thin frame. More about what to expect from tomorrow's event is available in the article.

HOPE FOR DIABETES: CRISPR-EDITED CELLS PUMP OUT INSULIN IN A PERSON – AND EVADE IMMUNE DETECTION

Sana Biotechnology, a firm in Seattle, Washington, has successfully implanted CRISPR-edited pancreas cells into a person with type 1 diabetes without the need for immune-dampening drugs. The cells, collected from a deceased donor, were able to produce insulin for months. Currently, the only way for someone with type 1 diabetes to avoid dependence on injected insulin is through the transplantation of cadaveric islet cells, but this requires lifelong immune-suppressing drug therapy. Sana's solution bypasses the need for those drugs entirely.

ELON MUSK: NEURALINK COULD RESTORE PARTIAL VISION TO THE BLIND NEXT YEAR

Neuralink could attempt to restore limited sight to visually impaired patients as early as 2026. Blindsight is a brain-computer interface designed to restore vision. It targets the brain's visual cortex to generate visual perception, which means that vision could be restored even for people who were born blind. Blindsight has received a 'breakthrough device' designation from the US FDA.

HOW TO BUILD WITH NANO BANANA: COMPLETE DEVELOPER TUTORIAL

Google's Nano Banana model introduces state-of-the-art capabilities for creating and manipulating images. This guide provides a walkthrough on how to integrate the model into applications using the Gemini Developer API. It covers how to set up environments, generate and edit images, and apply advanced techniques. It also discusses how to use Nano Banana in AI Studio, best practices, effective prompting, and more.

ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE STARTS ON EDGE

The best engineering teams develop their own tools while running production code on edge, where progress is made. When programmers are able to directly influence the tools they're working with, they're likely to do so, which makes them learn more. However, this requires being able to immediately use the improvements or bug fixes they helped devise - it doesn't work if they have to sit and wait for the next release. Bug-free frameworks and libraries take work, but the reward is increased engineering excellence.

OPENAI BACKS AI-MADE ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, is making a feature-length movie using AI. Expected to be released in theaters globally next year, Critterz is a story about forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Nelson has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to debut the film at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The team is attempting to make the movie in about nine months instead of the three years it would typically take. It has a budget of less than $30 million, far less than what animated films typically cost.

NO, AI IS NOT A BUBBLE

Bubbles are false beliefs about reality that everyone eventually figures out were false. The dot-com bubble that popped was the idea that businesses would become instantly rich just by being on the internet. People no longer believe that just adding AI to products will make them instant millionaires. The idea that modern AI will significantly transform business and the global economy, leading to massive unemployment for knowledge workers, is not a bubble.

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BEING GOOD ISN'T ENOUGH

The most important thing is agency - high-agency people make things happen, while low-agency people wait.

TESLA NOW SELLING SUPERCHARGERS DIRECTLY TO BUSINESSES

Business owners are now able to purchase and install Superchargers on their properties, with Tesla fully managing operations.

GOOGLE AI MODE MAY BECOME THE DEFAULT GOOGLE SEARCH EXPERIENCE “SOON.”

AI Mode becoming the default can mean big changes to the future of SEO.

DISTRIBUTING YOUR OWN SCRIPTS VIA HOMEBREW

This post walks through how to create a tap and a working formula for publishing to Homebrew - once the initial setup is complete, publishing additional tools becomes almost trivial.

LEAKED ANIMATION SHOWS HOW SAMSUNG'S TRIFOLD PHONE WILL CLOSE

The screens fold out and close in a specific order.

WHY WE TRUST STRANGERS' OPEN SOURCE MORE THAN OUR COLLEAGUES'

Employees often maintain their projects because they love them, so it's worth giving their projects the same fair evaluation given to any other open source.