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Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

Boring Company’s goal is to solve traffic in cities and one day build Hyperloop high-speed transit between city centers

THIS GUY BUILT REAL FLYING SWORD DRONES AND CONTROLS THEM WITH HAND GESTURES fan shisan is a physics student in chengdu who coded and built flying drones shaped like actual swords he controls them entirely with hand gestures. no controller or a phone. just his hands wave your hand and the sword follows. point and it flies where you direct it. multiple swords in the air at the same time responding to different gestures he built the gesture recognition system HIMSELF and coded the flight control algorithms. designed the drone hardware in the shape of swords. the gesture tracking uses sensors that read the position and movement of his hands in real time and translate them into flight commands for each drone independently he even built one large enough to ride on a physics student with coding skills just brought something straight out of a kung fu movie into the real world the line between science fiction and side projects is getting thinner every month

Awesome, SpaceX has begun exploring using Starlink to enable high-bandwidth around the Moon! Traditionally, deep space coms has relied on radio frequencies. This will enable gigabit connectivity anywhere on the Lunar Surface. Imagine watching livestreams. It’s gonna happen.

GEMINI 3.5 FLASH CAN DESIGN ANIMATED WEBSITES THAT LOOK LIKE THEY COST $50,000. Someone just recorded a 25 minute tutorial showing you how to build one from scratch using Google AI Studio and Gemini 3.5 for free.

JUST IN: SpaceX’s IPO filing says Starship could enable point-to-point travel anywhere on Earth in about 30 minutes or less.

We're building a Moon Base! @NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions. Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi

Wow, Anthropic has agreed to pay @SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for AI compute capacity, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee. Huge deal

Today we're introducing Claude Code for Marketing. In one prompt, Fastlane deploys social media accounts, generates viral content, and posts everything for you automatically. This is beyond insanity.

Microsoft just dropped a 4B parameter model that turns any image into a fully textured 3D asset in 3 seconds. GLB files with full PBR textures, ready for Blender, Unity, and Unreal. 100% open source. 3D artists are having a rough year.

Morgan Stanley Greater China Semiconductors Research published a new report on May 8, 2026. -> $NVDA racks and servers are still the biggest capex driver, representing around 58–63% of total 1GW data center cost, excluding HBM and CPU. -> For custom ASICs, racks and servers are much lower, around 39% of total cost. That is the clearest reason why hyperscalers keep pushing internal silicon. -> Morgan Stanley estimates that a 1GW NVIDIA GPU data center costs: Vera Rubin: ~$41B GB300: ~$33B B200: ~$24B H100: ~$23B Compared to custom ASICs: TPUv7: ~$27B Trainium3: ~$15B -> Current-gen NVIDIA systems can cost up to ~2x more per GW than custom ASICs. Vera Rubin is almost 3x Trainium3 on this estimate. -> This does not mean custom ASICs are automatically better. NVIDIA still has the strongest full-stack ecosystem, software, networking, availability, and model support. But it shows why hyperscalers have a massive economic incentive to scale ASICs. -> The second-biggest cost bucket is networking, around 19–23% across most systems. -> Power shell, cooling, DRAM, HBM, and CPU are meaningful, but secondary compared to racks, servers, and networking. -> This is also bullish for rack-scale infrastructure suppliers, because the AI capex debate is not just GPU vs ASIC. It is racks, networking, power delivery, cooling, and the full data center buildout. -> The hyperscaler world will split between premium NVIDIA clusters for maximum performance and flexibility, and custom ASIC clusters for lower-cost, more optimized workloads. -> NVIDIA still captures the richest part of AI infrastructure capex, but custom ASICs are becoming the cost-pressure mechanism hyperscalers will use to reduce long-term dependency.

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Sam Altman just revealed he put his ENTIRE liquid net worth into one company to reverse aging. The company is called Retro Biosciences. He put $180 million of his own money as the seed round. Then he came back for a $1 billion Series A. The company is now valued at $5 billion. Here's what they're building: Retro is working on something called partial cellular reprogramming. The basic idea is that your cells can be rewound to a younger state without turning them all the way back into stem cells. You stay you, but your biology gets younger. Most diseases are diseases of age. 20yo rarely get sick the way 80yo do. So instead of fighting cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease one by one, what if you just made the cells younger so those diseases never develop in the first place? That's the bet. One solution that cuts through EVERYTHING. And here's where AI enters the picture: OpenAI built a specialized model called GPT-4b micro specifically for Retro's research. They used it to redesign the proteins responsible for turning adult cells back into stem cells, a technique that won the Nobel Prize when it was first discovered. The original method was painfully slow. Worked on fewer than 1 in 1,000 cells. OpenAI's AI-designed proteins made the process 50 TIMES more efficient. Cells that used to take 3 weeks to reprogram were doing it in 7 days. And the AI came up with protein modifications so radical that human scientists would never have tried them, some differing by over 100 amino acids from the originals. Altman said AI compressed years of biological research into a fraction of the time. Retro's CEO said the model delivered results faster and better than any human-led effort they'd attempted. They've already started human trials for a drug targeting Alzheimer's. But here's the part that should make everyone stop and think... Altman also revealed that GPT-5 was specifically upgraded to handle healthcare queries. People are already uploading their medical records, asking about symptoms, and getting real answers. He told a story about taking a picture of a skin issue and ChatGPT correctly diagnosing it and offering to prescribe medication on the spot. Doctors at hospitals across the country are secretly using it at home because their workplaces don't have HIPAA-compliant versions yet. Every clinic he visits tells him the same thing: Every doctor here uses ChatGPT, they just can't admit it publicly. His prediction is that within 10 years, every person on Earth will have access to BETTER healthcare than the best healthcare anyone can get today. Think about this for a second... The CEO of the world's most powerful AI company put every dollar he had into an anti-aging startup. Then he built a custom AI model exclusively for that startup's research. That model produced results 50x better than anything humans achieved. And simultaneously his main product is being quietly adopted by the entire medical profession without official approval. OpenAI is becoming the backbone of a healthcare revolution that most people haven't even noticed is underway. The billionaire longevity race used to be an irrelevant sidequest. Bezos put some into Altos Labs. Zuckerberg and Thiel backed similar ventures. Nothing serious. But Altman's approach is different because he has something none of them had: An AI capable of doing the actual science faster than human researchers ever could. If Retro's cellular reprogramming works at scale, the first generation of people who get to live significantly healthier and longer lives might already be alive today. And Altman is barely talking about it, I wonder why.

People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick." It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period. The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety." The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead

The latest 𝕏 algorithm has been published to GitHub github.com/xai-org/x-algo…

JUST IN: SpaceX plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker $SPCX and will begin trading on June 12th - Reuters

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health. That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease! We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

MrBeast just gave one of the strongest endorsements possible for Starlink: “I will only book flights exclusively on planes with Starlink. I don’t care if it means an extra layover - I’ll sit in the back of the plane if it gives me Starlink.” He says Starlink has become the backbone of his global productions and travels because it works in places where traditional internet simply doesn’t exist: • Filming in Antarctica - one of the only reliable ways to stay connected • Building wells deep in rural Africa with full internet access hours away from cities • Driving through remote villages and open fields with a Starlink dish mounted on the vehicle while maintaining signal the entire time He described it as: “Starlink is literally magic. It makes no sense.” Now people are actively choosing flights based on whether the plane has Starlink onboard

They reinvented the hearing aid by studying the human ear Normal hearing aid: $4700 Theirs: $20

The singular red dot is causing a massive compute shortage and you think memory stocks have topped?