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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

ELON MUSK CLAIMS TESLA WILL LAUNCH A SELF-DRIVING SERVICE IN AUSTIN
IN JUNE (2 MINUTE READ) [6]

Elon Musk claimed during a recent earnings call that Tesla plans to
launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June.
The vehicles will use the yet-unreleased 'unsupervised' version of
Tesla's Full Self-Driving software. That software is expected to be
released to Tesla owners in California and other regions in the US
this year. Tesla owners will not be able to add their cars to the
Tesla ride-hail fleet until at least next year.

THE X EVERYTHING APP WILL LAUNCH THIS YEAR, AIMING TO COMPETE WITH
APPLE PAY (2 MINUTE READ) [7]

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that X will launch its Everything App this
year. The app will allow for secure and instant funding to X Wallets
via Visa Direct. Users will be able to connect their debit cards for
P2P payments. There will be an option for users to instantly transfer
funds to their bank accounts.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

CHINA SECRETLY BUILDING WORLD'S LARGEST NUCLEAR FUSION LASER, US
SATELLITE EXPOSES (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

China is developing a laser fusion research facility in the
southwestern region of the country. It will be larger than the US
National Ignition Facility, the current world's largest inertial
confinement fusion facility. The new development could have huge
implications for both nuclear weapons research and clean energy
production. China has not revealed the purpose of the facility.

STEM CELLS USED TO PARTIALLY REPAIR DAMAGED HEARTS (4 MINUTE READ)
[9]

A group of German researchers have developed a method for repairing
the heart using new muscle generated from stem cells. The results are
promising and they have started clinical trials. The technique
involves creating sheets of cells and combining them into a single
patch that can be attached to the heart's exterior. In experiments,
the scientists found that the added tissues integrated into the hearts functionally and immature stem cells did not form tumors. The implants
weren't problem-free - some of the stem cells in the sheets appeared
to be uncommitted to a mature state and one animal generated an immune
response to the implanted cells.

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MISCELLANEOUS

ON DEEPSEEK AND EXPORT CONTROLS (28 MINUTE READ) [13]

DeepSeek's achievements make export control policies more
existentially important than they were a week ago. Export controls
keep democratic nations at the forefront of AI development. The idea
that the technology getting cheaper and more powerful is a reason to
lift export controls makes no sense - they are one of the most
powerful tools for preventing authoritarian governments from behaving aggressively on the world stage. DeepSeek's release is roughly on the
expected cost reduction curve, which big tech has already factored
into its calculations - it will still require billions of dollars of infrastructure to make AI that is smarter than almost all humans at
almost all things.

ZUCK SHRUGS OFF DEEPSEEK, VOWS TO SPEND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS ON AI (2
MINUTE READ) [14]

Mark Zuckerberg said during Meta's first-quarter earnings call on
Wednesday that the company will be investing very heavily in AI this
year. Meta considers DeepSeek a new competitor, but it says that it is
way too early to tell if demand for chips will stop increasing, as
they are still crucial for inference. The company is aiming to make
Llama 4 the world's most competitive model. Llama 4 is expected to
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QUICK LINKS

WAYMO REPORTEDLY TESTING ROBOTAXIS IN 10 NEW CITIES IN 2025 (1 MINUTE
READ) [15]

Waymo will send less than 10 vehicles to each city, where they will
be manually driven.

OPENAI ALLEGES DEEPSEEK USED ITS MODELS FOR AI TRAINING (1 MINUTE
READ) [16]

OpenAI says it has evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used a
technique called 'distillation' to use its models to train a competing
open source model.

"EVERYTHING THAT MOVES WILL BE ROBOTIC": NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG
SAYS ROBOTS AND SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER (4 MINUTE
READ) [17]

Jensen Huang believes that Nvidia will have a big role to play in a
future where we are surrounded by robots.

MICROSOFT BRINGS A DEEPSEEK MODEL TO ITS CLOUD (2 MINUTE READ) [18]

DeepSeek R1 is now available on Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service.


MEET ALIBABA'S QWEN 2.5, AN AI MODEL CLAIMING TO BEAT BOTH DEEPSEEK
AND OPENAI'S CHATGPT (2 MINUTE READ) [19]

Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max reportedly outperforms GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3,
and Llama-3.1-405B.

SOFTBANK IN TALKS TO INVEST AS MUCH AS $25B IN OPENAI, REPORT SAYS (2
MINUTE READ) [20]

SoftBank may invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see it spend more than $40 billion on AI
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