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Google expands its TPU line-up with systems built for confidential AI and massive working contexts, while US regulators investigate whether Waymo’s school-bus software fix was adequate.

Daniel and Maya also cover Instagram’s global age-estimation rollout, NASA’s ESCAPADE spacecraft heading for Mars, Uber’s in-app parking launch, Medium’s new TK writing app and Venmo’s itemised receipt splitting.

Sources

• Google: Our newest TPUs — 8tx and 8i Max
• NHTSA: Waymo recall query filing
• Meta: Expanding Teen Account protections
• NASA: ESCAPADE completes powered Earth flybys
• TechCrunch: Uber launches parking service
• Medium: TK private notebook
• PayPal Newsroom: Venmo receipt scanning

NASA turns its long-term Moon plans into contracts, transport missions and a dated nuclear-powered rover. Anthropic reportedly makes a US$3.4 billion bet on gas generation for AI data centres, while physicists use electrical noise to reveal new evidence about high-temperature superconductors.

In this episode:

• NASA’s US$10 billion CLPS 2 framework, the PROMISE lunar rover and new cislunar transport projects
• Why electricity and grid delays are becoming strategic constraints for artificial intelligence infrastructure
• What electron pairing in a cuprate pseudogap could mean for future superconducting materials

• NASA — NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects
• Reuters — Anthropic secures $3.4 billion generator deal for AI data centers, FT reports
• Bloomberg — Anthropic Buys Power for AI Data Centers in $3.4B Deal, FT Says
• Science — Direct evidence of electron pairing in the pseudogap
• Ars Technica — Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery

A major Chainalysis breach exposed credentials and live tokens for all users, raising questions for banks, exchanges and government customers. We also examine gaps in US vetting of Nvidia H200 chip buyers in China, Apple’s 100,000-app milestone for the foldable iPhone Duo, and OpenAI’s reported US$11 billion funding haul.

Plus: Binance changes finance chief after a record crypto theft, and Meta adds persistent project Spaces to its Muse assistant.

• Chainalysis security incident update
• Ars Technica on the Chainalysis exposure
• The New York Times on Nvidia chip-buyer vetting
• The Verge on Nvidia H200 approvals
• TechCrunch on iPhone Duo apps
• TechCrunch on OpenAI’s reported funding
• TechCrunch on Binance’s CFO transition
• TechCrunch on Meta Muse Spaces

Tesla prepares to wind down Cybertruck production, while OpenAI releases a tightly controlled cyber-security model with powerful vulnerability-finding skills. Daniel and Maya also unpack Alphabet’s Qualcomm investment, Amazon’s text-based Alexa shopping rollout, Snapchat’s UK child-safety change, a blocked robotics takeover and MIT research that helps robots correct unreliable memories.

A concise global technology briefing covering electric vehicles, AI security, data-centre chips, online shopping, social platforms and robotics.

• Reuters — Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production at Texas Gigafactory next year
• OpenAI — GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
• Reuters — Alphabet discloses $548 million worth of Qualcomm stake
• Amazon — Alexa for Shopping can now help you shop over text
• Reuters — Snapchat starts disabling friend-finder feature for UK children
• Reuters — China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 billion takeover of ABB’s robotics division
• MIT News — Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

Internet-connected freezers are becoming a real-world cybersecurity risk, OpenAI is promising greater accountability for its data centres, and more than 670,000 Bose battery packs are being recalled. We also cover the legal fight over California’s youth social-media rules, Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 sales, Google’s Firebase Studio deadline and Blue Origin’s delayed New Glenn return.

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