Good morning. CERN is building the world’s first antimatter delivery service. Scientists want to ship antimatter to labs around Europe so they can study its weird properties. The only problem? Antimatter explodes if it touches matter. So CERN built a portable container cooled by liquid helium, using powerful magnetic fields to keep antimatter suspended safely. For their first real world test, researchers drove 92 antiprotons around a 4 kilometer loop near Geneva. Nothing exploded (yet), but they’re still just one pothole from ripping a hole in spacetime.
AI agents are about to get 100x faster. Cloudflare has a new sandbox built to instantly run AI-generated commands. Instead of running them in slow containers, Dynamic Workers execute agent code at the edge. Tasks spin up in milliseconds with minimal resources, so enterprises can handle millions of simultaneous agent requests without breaking the bank. Cloudflare thinks this lightweight approach will become standard for deploying agents at scale. No more waiting around on agents, unless slow AI is your thing. [Cloudflare, SlowLLM]
Amazon just acquired Sprout, the robot designed to make you smile. Fauna Robotics introduced Sprout in January as a playful, safe 42-inch humanoid built entirely for friendly interactions. It dances, chats, and even picks up toys, making it a natural fit for homes and schools. Early customers like Disney quickly adopted Sprout for entertainment and educational research. Amazon has tried (and failed) to crack consumer robotics before, most recently missing out on buying iRobot. Sprout might finally be the charming little robot Amazon needs to find its way into your living room. [Bloomberg]
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A federal judge basically called BS on the Pentagon. Anthropic was in court fighting to pause a Pentagon blacklist that would block it from defense contracts and pressure military contractors to drop its tools. Judge Rita Lin suggested the Dept. of War’s move looked less like national security and more like punishment for Anthropic going public. No final ruling yet, but Anthropic left court with something almost as valuable. A judge openly questioning if this is really about safety, or just Washington throwing a fit. [Reuters]
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are using AI to bring a bandmate’s voice back from the dead. In a new Netflix documentary, founding guitarist Hillel Slovak narrates his personal journals, despite having died in 1988. Slovak helped launch the band, playing guitar on their first 3 albums, but never had the chance to share his own story. The film’s director convinced Slovak’s family that an AI generated voice would finally let Hillel speak for himself. It’s not an official Chili Peppers project, but the band signed on out of respect for their friend’s legacy. [Rolling Stones]
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NASA is sending a nuclear powered spaceship to Mars. Nuclear rockets have been talked about since the 1950s, but NASA thinks it’s finally ready. They’re betting Space Reactor-1 Freedom can shrink travel times to Mars and make missions to Jupiter and beyond actually practical. To pull it off, NASA is recycling leftover parts from the canceled lunar Gateway project after DARPA ditched its own nuclear ambitions. Once Freedom reaches Mars, it’ll deploy three helicopters to explore uncharted regions. If nuclear propulsion delivers, it could redefine space exploration. If not, maybe NASA can hitch a ride with Elon. [NASA]
Sora is dead, and so is Disney’s $1B deal. Just months after launching the viral AI video gen app, OpenAI abruptly pulled the plug. Despite Hollywood panic around Sora’s lifelike AI clips, OpenAI decided the massive costs and heavy compute demands weren’t IPO-friendly. That’s bad news for Disney, which bet a billion dollars licensing its characters to OpenAI for exclusive AI generated Disney+ content. With Sora gone, the deal is toast. Google now owns the AI video space. [Hollywood Reporter]
Breaking: LiteLLM got hacked, do not update. OpenClaw users rely on LiteLLM to standardize API calls across large language models. But the latest updates, v1.82.7 and v1.82.8, contain malware designed to steal your credentials including SSH, crypto, passwords, API, and anything else valuable on your machine. LiteLLM is downloaded more than 100 million times per month. If you’ve installed either version, rotate your credentials immediately. [Hacker News]
fun stats
🔥 6 months. Time it took Sora 2 to go from #1 on the App Store to a goodbye post on X. OpenAI burned about $15 million per day to run the AI video gen app.
⚖️ $375 million. Penalty a New Mexico jury slapped on Meta for misleading users and putting kids at risk on its platform. Meta lost on every count, risking fines as high as $2 billion.
🛰️ 51,600. Number of satellites Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin wants to launch to make a space data center.