🐈 Elon Musk Takes on Big AI

Elon Musk → has filed a legal complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of colluding to dominate the generative AI market and stifling competitors, including his own xAI.

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👍 Better Late Than Never

WhatsApp → finally introduces message drafts. Unsent texts are now saved automatically and marked with a green “Draft” label.

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🚀 Musk’s One-Hour Planet

Elon Musk plans to turn SpaceX’s Starship → into the ultimate rocket-powered airline, promising to make any destination on Earth reachable in under an hour. With speeds of up to 27,000 km/h and capacity for 1,000 passengers, here’s what the future of travel could look like:

- London to New York: 29 minutes
- New York to Paris: 30 minutes
- New York to Shanghai: 39 minutes
- Zurich to Sydney: 50 minutes

Tickets won’t come cheap—expect prices to run into the thousands—but time is money, right?

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📺 Apple’s TV Dream: Coming Soon… Maybe?

Apple → is reportedly considering launching its own branded TVs, but it’s focusing on smart displays first. If the smart display line succeeds, we could see Apple move forward with a TV release.

However, the company may rethink plans for a TV if the first device doesn’t perform well.

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📱Slimmer Than Ever: iPhone 17 Slim

Insiders suggest → the upcoming iPhone 17 Slim will measure just 6 mm in thickness, making it Apple’s thinnest smartphone yet. For comparison, the current record-holder, the iPhone 6, is a comparatively hefty 6.9 mm.

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🤡 Long Time, No Courtroom

The US Department of Justice plans to file a court order demanding Google → sell Chrome, which controls about 61% of the US browser market and is a key tool for promoting its other products.

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💅 Tech Girl Goes Full Tesla

Kim Kardashian → shared photos and videos of the brand-new Tesla Optimus robot and Tesla Cybercab, making her the first in the world to get her hands on them.

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🦴 How About This, Apple?

Microsoft → has unveiled the Windows 365 Link mini-PC, a cloud-based computer designed specifically for corporate use.

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🤖 Memory Unlocked: Gemini Learns About You

Google’s Gemini → chatbot now saves user details, like job roles and preferences, for more personalized interactions. Users can manage or delete stored data via the "Saved Information" page.

The feature is available in English for Google One AI Premium subscribers (€21.99/month after a free trial).

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💸 Throwing Billions at Claude

Amazon → doubles down on Anthropic with a $4 billion investment, pushing the AI startup’s total funding to $9.7 billion.

As part of the deal, Anthropic will rely on Amazon’s Trainium and Inferentia chips for training Claude, their ChatGPT rival.

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🤗 TikTok, Trump, and Musk: A Power Trio?

TikTok’s CEO looks to Elon Musk → for help as the app faces a US ban. Since the election, Musk has been staying at Trump’s residence, engaging in talks about the upcoming administration’s tech policies.

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🛁 Princess Treatment

Imagine skipping your shower and stepping into a pod that washes, dries, and entertains you—hands-free. That’s the promise of "Mirai Ningen Sentakuki," Japan’s human washing machine →, debuting at Osaka’s 2025 Expo.

Shaped like a cockpit, it fills with water as you relax, with sensors adjusting temperature and tracking your vitals.

Though inspired by a similar concept from 50 years ago that never caught on, this version is more high-tech. For now, it’s limited to expo demonstrations, but there are rumors of a home version in development.

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💸 Revenue Over Arrests

Telegram's revenue → for the first half of 2024 reached $525 million—nearly a 200% increase compared to the same period last year.

The growth was driven by Toncoin sales, advertising, and Premium subnoscriptions. As for Pavel Durov’s detainment in Paris? It didn’t affect the numbers at all.

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🤐 Apple vs. Brazil

Brazil has ordered Apple → to allow third-party payments in the App Store within 20 days or face $43,000 in daily fines following a monopoly complaint by MercadoLibre.

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❤️ SpaceX Beams Ahead

The FCC has greenlit SpaceX to roll out Starlink → satellite internet for smartphones in partnership with T-Mobile.

This marks the first commercial launch of its kind in the U.S., giving SpaceX a solid lead over competitors.

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