Happy Monday.
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Enjoy today’s news.
SpaceX is shifting focus to building a Moon city within 10 years, while still planning to start Mars settlement work in 5–7 years.
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Erebor Bank, founded by Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale, received a US national bank charter, allowing it to operate nationwide under federal regulation.
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Apple is working to make CarPlay compatible with third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT, letting users interact with voice-controlled AI assistants.
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Anthropic released an experimental Fast Mode for Claude Opus 4.6, with ~2.5× faster performance at a significantly higher token cost.
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𝕏 announces winners of its $1M Grok Imagine ad contest.
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It is also rolling out a pay-per-use API, moving most developers off free access while keeping exemptions for approved public-utility apps.
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Agentation 2.0 turns UI annotations into structured context AI coding agents can understand and act on.
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NASA will allow astronauts to bring personal iPhones and other smartphones on upcoming missions, letting crews use pocket devices for photos, video, and documentation in space.
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Y Combinator partner Raphael Schaad interviews Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, to unpack how the viral, local-first AI agent came together and why personal agents could replace many standalone apps.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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