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Meta Gives Free AI Glasses to Every Blind US Veteran

Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering a pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, at no cost, to all legally blind US veterans.

SpaceX is cheap on a price-to-cosmos ratio

Terrestrial valuations don’t apply when it comes to Elon

Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer’

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Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation

Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just months ago.

The AI Interview: Philippe Rambach, Schneider Electric

Philippe Rambach, CAIO at Schneider Electric, explains why critical thinking and a business-first strategy are essential for scaling AI across factories

Agentjacking: a fake bug report hijacks AI coding agents

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target.

Executive Briefing: Your Company Is About to Get Cheap Intelligence. That Is Not the Same as Being Able to Use It.

Last week I got a call from a founder I’ve known for years. He runs an agentic startup, meaning his software does work for customers instead of waiting for customers to work inside the software. He had just moved his product off a frontier model and onto an open-weight model.

OpenAI Acquires Ona to Make Codex Enterprise-Ready

OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed.

Pokemon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

The repurposing of Pokemon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.

David Hockney, painter, 1937-2026

From his hedonistic LA pictures to Normandy iPad drawings, the virtuoso artist stood out for his democratic appeal and accessibility

Codex-maxxing for long-running work

How Codex helps work continue beyond a single prompt