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🚀 SpaceX’s $60Bn Acquisition of Cursor is Complete
🧐 Silicon Valley Therapists Are Seeing an Uptick in AI Anxiety
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💡 AI Tutorial:How to write and edit docs faster with Claude
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Build a Holiday Creator Affiliate Program in 90 Days
Holiday planning is already in full gear, and the pressure is on for ecommerce brands to generate demand.
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SpaceX officially owns Cursor. The $60 billion acquisition of the San Francisco-based coding startup was first announced in April, and now gives SpaceX a boost to compete against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. It’s an unusual combination, but one that gives SpaceX one of the hottest coding-agent teams in the industry as it pushes Grok beyond a chatbot.
Every AI feature on an iPhone in China was set to run on someone else’s model. Now there’s one Apple trained in-house with Alibaba’s help, and Beijing signed off.
Bay Area psychologists are seeing a new wave of “complicity grief,” driven by uncomfortable feelings tech workers are experiencing as AI and the automations they developed start to threaten their own careers. In a recent survey of over 8k tech workers, an estimated 55.7% of respondents reported burnout
Europe might be getting a robotaxi invasion. Chinese autonomous vehicle maker Pony.ai and Uber are planning to bring 2,000 robotaxis to four cities in Europe as part of an expanded partnership. The partners didn’t share a timeline of when the taxis would be deployed or where exactly they’d launch, but details will be released in phases.
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AI Tutorial
How to write and edit docs faster with Claude
Install Claude for Word, open Microsoft Word and sign in with a Team or Enterprise account that has Claude enabled
Open any document you want to work on
Click the Claude sidebar (usually on the right side of Word) to launch it
Highlight the text you want help with (or keep the document unselected for full-document edits)
Type a prompt like “rewrite this professionally” or “summarize this section”
Review Claude’s suggestions directly in the document
Ask follow-ups in the sidebar to refine tone, length, or clarity
Repeat until your document is polished
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