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  • 📱 Lenovo launches $44 AI phone for students

  • 🛰️ Amazon's Starlink rival

  • ☣️ Terrorists can Use AI to Spark Pandemic

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:Create Custom Sound Effects with AI in Seconds

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The company is also launching Meta Compute, a cloud infrastructure business selling access to its AI data center capacity, marking a push beyond advertising into enterprise AI services. The company is also launching Meta Compute, a cloud infrastructure business aimed at selling access to its AI data center capacity

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Lenovo just reportedly launched its AI Student Phone in China, a new 299-yuan (~$44 USD) device stripped down with only basic functionalities like calling, parental tracking, and a dedicated AI button to enlist for homework help. The device features a screen smaller than a credit card that kids can write on by hand, tough glass for durability, and a lanyard for a backpack attachment.

Alibaba is banning Claude Code from its employees effective from July 10 over a hidden backdoor that flags China users. Alibaba pulled Claude Code from its offices and moved staff to its in-house tool, Qoder. Researchers say the tool checked timezones and proxy data against a hidden list of Chinese labs. Anthropic says the feature was a March experiment to stop account abuse, not surveillance.

World's four leading AI CEOs asked Congress to control DNA sales before AI outpaces guardrails. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman co-signed the letter to U.S. lawmakers. It was signed by more than 50 figures across AI, biotech, national security and academia, including Nobel laureates.

Amazon Leo now has enough satellites in orbit to begin serving customers. The constellation now has more than 390 satellites. Amazon began offering an enterprise preview for select businesses last year. Its commercial service will likely initially be limited to users in certain geographic regions.

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AI Tutorial

Create Custom Sound Effects with AI in Seconds

  1. Go to Eleven Labs and sign up for free

  2. Select "Sound Effects" from the menu on the left.

  3. Describe the sound effect you want to create in the prompt box, then press Enter or click the send icon and wait a few seconds.

  4. You'll get four different sound effects.

  5. Download the sound effects and use them in your videos, podcasts, games, presentations, or any other creative projects.

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Hampton took $440K in planned hires off the calendar

Hampton co-founder Joe Speiser had three roles budgeted: a data engineer, an ops manager, a PM. $440K. He installed Viktor on April 12. Forty-four days later, none are on the calendar, and 18 of his team work with Viktor daily. His VP: we are editors now, not creators.

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