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⚖️ Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, jury finds

💥 Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

👥 OpenAI to nearly double workforce

📝 Google is replacing news headlines with AI ones

🚀 SpaceX dominates US military and NASA contracts

Plus: 🎁 11 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 3 papers.

⚖️ Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, jury finds LINK

A California civil jury found that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders in 2022 when he publicly questioned the platform's bot numbers while trying to back out of his $44 billion acquisition.

Investor Giuseppe Pampena sued on behalf of former Twitter shareholders who sold stock at a loss after Musk's tweet caused an 8% decline in share price between May and October 2022.

Damages could reach $2.6 billion according to Pampena's attorney, though the exact amount is not yet clear — and it's a relatively small sum given Musk's estimated $660 billion net worth.

💥 Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes LINK

Microsoft has announced a long list of changes to Windows 11 after years of growing user complaints about AI clutter, unreliable updates, poor performance, and missing features like taskbar customization.

The company says it will reduce unnecessary Copilot entry points in apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets, and Notepad, responding to near-universal user feedback asking Microsoft to stop pushing AI features.

Other promised changes include movable taskbar positions, fewer automatic restarts during updates, faster File Explorer performance, and better testing through the Windows Insider Program before builds ship publicly.

👥 OpenAI to nearly double workforce LINK

OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by the end of 2026, according to a Financial Times report citing two people with knowledge of the matter.

Most of the new hires will work across product development, engineering, research, and sales, covering the core teams that build and sell OpenAI's tools to customers.

The company is also recruiting specialists focused on "technical ambassadorship," a role designed to help businesses make better use of its existing products like ChatGPT.

📝 Google is replacing news headlines with AI ones LINK

Google is now using AI to rewrite news headlines that appear in its search results, sometimes changing their meaning, after previously doing something similar in its Google Discover news feed.

The practice is not entirely new — Google has been altering headlines in search results for years — but recent examples show AI-rewritten headlines that poorly reflect the actual articles they link to.

Google Search maintains a visual tone of being a neutral directory, but its AI Overviews and rewritten headlines can misrepresent source material, making results misleading for people who trust them.

🚀 SpaceX dominates US military and NASA contracts LINK

SpaceX has become the go-to launch provider for the US military and NASA, with the Space Force again turning to a Falcon 9 rocket after ULA failed to meet its GPS satellite launch schedule.

ULA's Vulcan rocket is grounded for the second time in under two years because its solid rocket boosters suffered the same type of failure on two of its four flights.

The Space Force shifted all four final GPS Block III satellite launches from ULA to SpaceX starting in 2024, giving ULA rights to a classified military mission in 2028 instead.

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🧰 Trending tools

Design Agent by Lokuma: an AI design layer that helps coding agents structure and refine their outputs into polished landing pages and websites with proper layout and typography.LINK

Claude Cowork Projects: a desktop workspace that consolidates tasks, files, and context in one place for faster, more consistent workflow management across complex projects.LINK

Vite+: a unified toolchain that manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend stack through a single CLI, eliminating multi-tool configuration overhead.LINK

Cursor Glass: a unified interface that lets AI agents seamlessly switch between local and cloud environments mid-task while managing repositories and reducing context-switching overhead.LINK

Fractal: accelerates ChatGPT app development by automating architecture, coding, testing, and deployment, letting developers ship and iterate AI applications faster.LINK

Define: an email client that applies Arc browser's UX patterns to email management and integrates AI agents for handling messages, events, and files.LINK

📚 Trending papers & reports

Demand paging for LLMs loads context tokens only when needed, reducing memory usage by up to 90% while maintaining accuracy within 1% on long document tasks.LINK

SOL-ExecBench measures how close GPU code runs to theoretical hardware limits, helping developers identify optimization opportunities by comparing actual performance against speed-of-light baselines for memory and compute operations.LINK

A reasoning verification system catches AI logic errors by checking each step against formal rules, achieving 92% accuracy on mathematical proofs compared to 67% for standard language models.LINK

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