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The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several victims across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $10 billion "collaboration fee" and a path to a $60 billion acquisition. Also, Google brings Gemini-powered 'auto browse' capabilities to Chrome for enterprise users, letting workers automate tasks like research, data entry, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The New Glenn rocket will have to stay grounded while the company investigates what caused the apparent failure of its upper stage. -Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized. -The NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off his role as Apple CEO to John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering. Also, Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes. Also, fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren't settled amicably. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices