Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire

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Hollywood is over. It's all Internet now. https://t.co/NFESPUnk0F

Microsoft is about to sue its own golden child. $14 billion invested. Exclusive cloud rights. The most important AI partnership in history. And Sam Altman just went behind their back with a $50 billion Amazon deal. Here's why they're betraying each other: When Microsoft first invested in OpenAI in 2019, they locked in ONE rule above everything else... ALL access to OpenAI's models must go through Microsoft's Azure cloud. No exceptions. That deal made Azure the backbone of the AI revolution. Every company using ChatGPT's API was paying Microsoft for the privilege. It was the smartest infrastructure play of the decade. Then last month, OpenAI quietly signed a deal with Amazon. $50 billion. AWS becomes the exclusive third-party cloud provider for Frontier, OpenAI's new enterprise AI agent platform. $138 billion committed to Amazon cloud services. Microsoft found out and got really angry.... A person familiar with Microsoft's position told the Financial Times today: "We know our contract. We will sue them if they breach it. If Amazon and OpenAI want to take a bet on the creativity of their contractual lawyers, I would back us, not them." That's basically a declaration of war. And here's where it gets crazy: OpenAI and Amazon are trying to build a technical workaround. A system called the "Stateful Runtime Environment" that runs on Amazon's Bedrock platform. Their argument is that the system "only" handles memory and context for AI agents using enterprise data on AWS. It doesn't technically "invoke" OpenAI's core models through Amazon. Microsoft's response: Bullshit. The workaround violates the spirit of the deal even if it technically dances around the letter. Amazon knows they're on thin ice too. An internal memo leaked showing Amazon told employees exactly what language they can and can't use. They can say Frontier is "powered by OpenAI" or "enabled by OpenAI." But they CANNOT say customers can "access" or "invoke" OpenAI models on AWS. When you're coaching employees on which verbs to avoid, you know you're in trouble. But here's the thing everyone seems to forget: OpenAI is planning an IPO this year. They just closed a $110 billion funding round last month. So if Microsoft sues, the IPO timeline is DEAD. You can't go public while your biggest partner and investor is suing you for breach of contract. Elon Musk is already suing OpenAI separately for abandoning its nonprofit mission. Two active lawsuits from two of the most powerful people in tech. Against one company trying to IPO. Good luck with that S-1 filing. But WHY did Altman do this? Microsoft gave OpenAI everything. Capital. Infrastructure. Distribution. Enterprise customers. And Altman's response was to secretly build an escape route through Amazon... Because he saw what was coming: Microsoft launched Copilot. Their own AI product. Competing directly with ChatGPT. Microsoft started building their own models. Hiring their own AI researchers. Reducing dependency on OpenAI. So Altman did the same thing back. Found another cloud provider. Started building leverage. Both sides were preparing for divorce while still living in the same house. So the $50 billion Amazon deal was just an insurance policy against the day Microsoft decides it doesn't need OpenAI anymore. And Microsoft caught him packing his bags. What happens next: The companies are still talking. Trying to resolve this before Frontier launches. But Microsoft has made their position clear. Litigation is on the table. If this goes to court, it sets a precedent for every AI partnership in the industry. Every cloud deal. Every exclusive licensing agreement. The entire AI infrastructure map gets redrawn. Sam Altman built OpenAI on Microsoft's money, Microsoft's cloud, and Microsoft's trust. Then he signed a $50 billion deal with their biggest competitor. In any other industry they'd call that what it is.

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mamba3 ai summary https://t.co/jI2jKDEYds https://t.co/hawT72sumt

The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. https://t.co/G99HnXhfd8

i really like the way @sainingxie articulates his thoughts and builds elegant analogies around them. i’d strongly recommend watching the section of the podcast where he talks about research taste. one idea that stood out to me was his view that good research taste means being able to see through the illusions or superficial framing of a problem and uncover its true underlying substance. he connects this beautifully with philosophical ideas which makes the discussion even richer. i also really liked his analogy that great research is a lot like filmmaking or storytelling. btw thanks @eliebakouch for the recommendation!

@paulmooney @Noahpinion https://t.co/hrc3UFA8fH

ScreenSpot-Pro, the GUI computer use benchmark is now on @huggingface 🏆 just added Qwen3.5 it takes 5th place, with specialist Holo2 family takes top ranks whoever builds next GUI model based on Qwen3.5 can top the leaderboard? 🔥 https://t.co/Izwar2AV0p

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐑-𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 A large-scale brain MRI dataset + report generation VLM, built with NVIDIA 100K studies from 80K+ patients, ~700K volumes paired with radiology reports We continue moving beyond narrow AI tools toward generalist medical intelligence https://t.co/tL85XFSLGs

.@anneapplebaum on why our allies have little interest in helping us with Iran. https://t.co/bVtq5L3qPU https://t.co/GxAX8dKzV1

.@anneapplebaum on why our allies have little interest in helping us with Iran. https://t.co/bVtq5L3qPU https://t.co/GxAX8dKzV1

Trump: “The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran…We no longer need, or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID!” (He said the exact opposite yesterday.)

A major global study of democracies finds that the US under Trump is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey. https://t.co/QkCwiv4vrU

BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff HUMILIATES Trump for begging Europe to get involved in his Iran War, says that it would be like "buying cheap tickets for the Titanic" after it hit the iceberg. This is beyond brutal... "We have five reasons to say no to him, in fact," said Yakovleff. "So, the first one is that he didn't understand that if he wants to carry out a NATO operation, NATO has to take command. So, there will be an American general, but it's a single operation." “You can’t have an American operation where they’re bombing whatever they can and then below that, the Europeans doing something else,” Yakovleff said. “No, no, no, it has to be one sole operation, under a NATO flag. I don’t think he understood that.” Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, was commander of the French Foreign Legion, and served in top positions in NATO. He's a highly respected military expert in France and regularly weighs in on issues of international importance. Trump has been pleading with allied nations to get involved in his Iran fiasco. Iranian missiles and drones have made it impossible for oil tankers to obtain insurance to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's petroleum normally passes. Oil prices are skyrocketing. So far, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have refused Trump's request. General Yakovleff went on to point out that Trump's strategic goals, beyond forcing open the strait, are vague and undefined. If NATO nations were even going to consider involvement, they would need the United States to explain explicitly in writing what the goals are. "And it's not tweets, and it's not things that change every two minutes. So, already there, it's going to be necessary for Trump himself to know what he wants," said the general. He said that there's also the issue of the lack of "confidence" in Trump. It's well-known that he regularly abandons his allies and he could do so here immediately after other nations got involved. “He would let us down whenever it suited him," said Yakovleff. He ended his tirade by comparing Trump to the captain of the Titanic trying to "sell cheap tickets" for his voyage "after having hit the iceberg." “And the last argument is American: you don’t reinforce failure. I learnt that at the U.S. Army War College. You don’t reinforce failure, you move on, you find something else.” he added. "So, there are a lot of reasons to say no." Please ❤️ and share if you think that the Iran War is a total disaster!

@rohit4verse This isn’t new, Salesforce did the same thing earlier this year, and it made headlines for a reason. AgentScript is exactly what it says: deterministic code invoking AI, not AI in charge. The lesson? Apply critical thinking and don’t chase hype. Agents have their place, but only once you accept they are neither autonomous nor fully reliable.

Is the "one size fits all" software model dead? In this episode of the GitHub Podcast, Cassidy and Kedasha explore the rise of personal software tools built by developers for themselves, and shared with the world through open source. https://t.co/3VFna0XcuB https://t.co/2pSPlc4m30

Only pro-Trump propaganda allowed: Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, Trump and his aides are acting like autocrats by ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants. https://t.co/vU54tfRUUY

Excellent post by Rachel Thomas in the ways AI hype is outrunning reality in life sciences https://t.co/oAqoWaJlIb https://t.co/6psP5ZAyOF

Excellent post by Rachel Thomas in the ways AI hype is outrunning reality in life sciences https://t.co/oAqoWaJlIb https://t.co/6psP5ZAyOF

The SEC is finally drawing clearer lines around crypto. For the first time, it has outlined how it will decide which digital assets count as securities. Clarity helps the market but it also brings enforcement much closer. https://t.co/rCmpnBOVjX @coindesk @jesseahamilton

Thanks, Sam! Cherry Studio will stay open source and continue serving AI enthusiasts worldwide! @sama @OpenAIDevs https://t.co/zfNAQlXjJQ

𝕏 is adding country-level controls for post visibility and replies https://t.co/6br1ewgN6e

Grok now delivers some of the best video and audio aesthetics You can hear every brush stroke… even the subtle sound of breathing https://t.co/Ehw7uVJzGq

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DEPUTY AG TODD BLANCHE ON REID HOFFMAN: Q. Is there evidence Reid Hoffman went to the island? TODD BLANCHE: Yes. I believe he’s admitted that he went to the island. Q. Is there documentation that shows underage women were also present at the island? BLANCHE: At the same time as as any of those guys? Not that I'm aware of. Q. Would you say that Hoffman is completely absolved of any wrongdoing? BLANCHE: No. When it comes to the trafficking of underage women, there's no statute of limitation

the art of 3D printing https://t.co/zoeu7lgMJR

the art of 3D printing https://t.co/zoeu7lgMJR

"I was using the ChatGPT Voice Mode... in the car this morning, and they improved that thing dramatically. It's so much better." — @johncoogan, TBPN https://t.co/d4d2UN9RNx