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80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

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Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

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Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonprofits use Claude more effectively. Applications opened Wednesday and close on July 17. No college degree is required. Applicants […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not going to think Bernie Sanders is progressive,” Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. “They’re going to be like, ‘Bernie Sanders, you only want 50%? What […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce

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Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire m3ter, a London-based metering and rating platform built for consumption-based billing. The deal will integrate m3ter’s infrastructure natively into Agentforce Revenue Management, giving Salesforce customers the ability to launch, track, and bill usage-based and outcome-based pricing models without leaving the platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. The […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

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Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this autumn with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, land on the […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

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China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday. Many popular SUVs and MPVs now approach or exceed 2 metres in width, squeezing into parking spaces designed a decade […] This story continues at The Next Web * This article was originally published here

How to Grow Your LinkedIn Following with Brenden Delarua

Should you send a note when you invite someone to connect on LinkedIn? What about when they accept your connection? At what point should you reach out to a new connection? And what the heck should you say? Should you ask for a meeting or send them a joke? :) And what about posting – how do you write a hook that makes your people stop scrolling? These are just a few of the questions answered by this week’s guest, Brenden Delarua , a growth marketing strategist, when we talked about how exactly he hit recently 10,000 followers on LinkedIn! I worked with Brenden when he was a wee one, still in college, studying marketing but not learning what he wanted to know. That's when he Googled “marketing mentor” and he found me. We worked together for a couple years and then he continued on his journey. So it was a thrill to recently hear how Brenden has taken what he learned and run with it, turning it into a thriving business 10 years later. If you want to grow your network on Link...