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• OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network [6h]
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• Instagram might soon let you remove yourself from someone’s Close Friends list [8h]
• Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon [8h]
• SpaceX’s IPO could open the floodgates — and secondaries are booming in the meantime [10h]
• Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets [10h]
• Anthropic brings agentic plugins to Cowork [11h]
• Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands [12h]
• Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump [12h]
• Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says [12h]
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