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📱 Apple builds iPhone anti-snatch auto-lock 🤖 Robinhood now lets AI agents trade stocks 🌙 NASA picks Blue Origin for first lunar mission 📺 YouTube will now automatically label AI videos 🦆 DuckDuckGo installs jump 30% after Google AI Search 🎁 + 14 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports |
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| 📱 Apple builds iPhone anti-snatch auto-lock LINK |
- Apple is developing an iPhone feature that automatically locks the device when it detects the phone has been snatched out of the user's hand, similar to Android's Theft Detection Lock system already on rival phones.
- The system will rely on signals like the iPhone's accelerometer to confirm a snatch, and it will also check the distance from a paired Apple Watch to judge whether the device has left its owner.
- Once fully built, the feature will follow Stolen Device Protection rules, checking for familiar WiFi networks and familiar locations like home or work, and restricting access to the same protected areas when conditions look suspicious.
| 🤖 Robinhood now lets AI agents trade stocks LINK |
- Robinhood now lets AI agents place stock trades for users, who can describe activities like rebalancing a portfolio after certain events or grabbing a stock at a set price and have the agent carry them out.
- To set this up, Robinhood Gold cardholders need to direct their agents to connect with the company's MCP, a type of AI software that can receive and understand commands sent by an agent.
- Product VP Abhishek Fatehpuria said this first wave of AI offerings targets tech-savvy users, telling early adopters to bring their own tools while the company learns from that audience during what he called a nascent phase.
| 🌙 NASA picks Blue Origin for first lunar mission LINK |
- NASA has chosen Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin over Elon Musk's SpaceX to run the first mission for its planned $20bn moon base, with the uncrewed flight scheduled as early as fall 2026.
- Blue Origin received $230.4m to support each of its first two moon base missions, sending its cryogenically propelled Endurance cargo lander to the Shackleton de Gerlache Ridge near the moon's south pole.
- Administrator Jared Isaacman called it the first privately funded lunar lander mission in history, with Blue Origin largely paying for the operation itself and carrying scientific payloads from NASA and private partners.
| 📺 YouTube will now automatically label AI videos LINK |
- YouTube will now automatically apply labels to videos when its internal systems detect "significant photorealistic AI" content, taking the job out of the hands of creators who previously had to disclose this themselves through Creator Studio.
- Starting in May, the labels will sit directly below the video player above the description on long-form videos and overlay on Shorts, and creators can't remove them if the content was made with YouTube's own tools like Veo or Dream Screen.
- Labels will be permanently attached when content carries C2PA metadata showing it was fully AI-generated, and YouTube says the tags won't affect how a video is recommended or its ability to monetize.
| 🦆 DuckDuckGo installs jump 30% after Google AI Search LINK |
- DuckDuckGo says its app installs climbed as much as 30 percent after Google rolled out its AI-heavy Search overhaul, with users seeking a simpler alternative to AI-generated answers and cluttered results.
- Between May 20 and May 25, US installs rose 18.1 percent week-on-week on average, while iOS saw weekly growth of 33 percent and peaked at nearly 70 percent in a single day.
- Visits to DuckDuckGo's "no AI" search page, which turns off AI-written summaries and synthetic image results by default, grew 22.7 percent week-on-week, with traffic peaking on May 24.
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Other news & articles you might like
- SK Hynix joins $1 trillion club after Samsung, Micron on AI chip boom LINK
- The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design LINK
- Spotify CEO defends AI music, wants you to stop calling it 'slop' LINK
- How Apple turned to math to defend against next-gen attacks on encryption LINK
- Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' LINK
- We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo LINK
- 3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild LINK
- Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis LINK
- China turns its aging camera network into an AI-powered mass surveillance apparatus LINK
- Samsung chip workers vote to accept $340,000 average bonus, ending months-long strike threat LINK
- Starlink, Amazon can bid for EU mobile satellite spectrum, Commission says LINK
- ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track LINK
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🧰 Trending tools
| Powabase: a backend-as-a-service platform combining Postgres, RAG, agents, and workflows so teams can build AI apps without managing fragmented infrastructure. LINK |
| Oasis Browser for Mac: a privacy-focused browser for Mac that anonymizes interaction data and blocks distractions, keeping your browsing secure and focused. LINK |
| zero.xyz: a middleware layer that lets AI agents discover and use services without requiring API keys or manual configuration setup. LINK |
| Octolane: chat-driven CRM that auto-detects deals, drafts follow-ups, and updates pipeline by reading your Gmail and calendar hands-free. LINK |
| Krater: a unified chat interface that consolidates multiple AI tools into one place, eliminating the need to switch between separate apps. LINK |
| BaseBuddy: a self-hosted, open-source CMS that transforms existing Supabase and Postgres databases into a user-friendly, WordPress-style content editor. LINK |
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📚 Trending papers & reports
| > How to Win at Mobile DevOps: build a release process your team can trust. Inside, you'll learn how to: Build CI/CD that scales, avoid the bottlenecks that derail releases and use AI-powered workflows to ship faster and smarter. Get the playbook for free. |
| > Sleep-like memory consolidation in AI language models lets them compress recent information into persistent memory, improving performance on complex reasoning tasks, with longer "sleep" periods producing the biggest gains. LINK |
| > Epicure ingredient embeddings map the full chemistry and cooking context of 1,790 food ingredients, trained on 4.14 million multilingual recipes, letting researchers place flavor science and recipe patterns on one shared spectrum. LINK |
| > Atomically precise carbon structures were built on a silicon surface one atom at a time using a scanning tunneling microscope, demonstrating full control over where atoms land and how they bond together. LINK |
| > A recent complexity-theory proof claiming human-like AI through machine learning is impossible contains a critical unjustified assumption about data distributions, making its conclusion unreliable and the proof difficult to repair. LINK |
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