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1. 🤝 Anthropic Made a Deal With SpaceX
Anthropic just announced a deal with SpaceX to use all of the company’s compute capacity at its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Anthropic will get access to more than 300 megawatts of compute capacity and might work with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of compute capacity in space. (CNBC)
2. 🤯 May Is Nearly Halfway Done. Q2 Is Almost Over.
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3. 📱 Apple is Settling a $250M iPhone Class Action Lawsuit
Did you buy an iPhone 16, 15 Pro, or 15 Pro Max between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025? If you’re one of those 37 million people, Apple owes you. The company has reached a settlement to a class-action lawsuit claiming that Apple deceived customers with false iPhone advertising by marketing “Enhanced Siri features” that did not exist yet. (CBS News)
4. 💰 Compliance that helps you close $1M+ deals
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Teams like Dub, Strix, and Better Auth used it to get through security reviews faster and close million dollar deals.
5. 💭 Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents Can “Dream” Now
…sorta. At Anthropic’s Code with Claude developers’ conference, the AI startup introduced what it calls “dreaming” to Claude Managed Agents. In this case, dreaming means the process of going over recent events and identifying specific things worth storing in “memory” to inform future interactions. (ArsTechnica)
6. 🚀 SpaceX Might Spend Up to $119Bn on a Texas Chip Factory
SpaceX is reportedly considering spending $55 billion initially to build a semiconductor factory in Grimes County, Texas… but it might spend a total of $119 billion on the project to make a “multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility,” dubbed “Terafab.” (TechCrunch)
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7. 🤖 Freshworks is Cutting 500 Jobs Due to AI
Add another to the list of AI-induced layoffs. Customer service and IT support software company Freshworks said it’s cutting about 500 jobs (11% of its workforce) as AI takes over a major share of its internal operations. The company’s CEO claims “over half of [its] code is written by AI” and automation has reduced “rote work that technology can take care of.” (Quartz)
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