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• Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022

• Microsoft Plans Boldest Games Bet Since Activision Deal, Changing How ‘Call of Duty' Is Sold 

• Apple Needs to Evolve to Compete in the Artificial Intelligence Era

• Trial HIV vaccine triggers elusive and essential antibodies, pointing the way toward a successful vaccine 

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Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022

Blue Origin has resumed crewed flights for the first time in two years. The company recently successfully brought six tourist crew members to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard rocket and crew capsule. Blue Origin had paused launches after a mission experienced an anomaly that caused it to abort after liftoff in August 2022. The company has flown a total number of 37 human passengers to space so far.

Other News

• CoreWeave, an AI infrastructure startup raises $7.5B in debt 

• Vercel, a cloud development platform, raised $250 million

• Cover Genius, an embedded insurance startup, rasied $80 million

• Cylib, a lithium-ion battery recycler, raised $60 million

• PolyAI, a conversational AI startup, raised $50 million

🏭Business Nuts 

Microsoft Plans Boldest Games Bet Since Activision Deal, Changing How ‘Call of Duty' Is Sold 

Microsoft is releasing the next Call of Duty to its Game Pass subscription service. Players will still have the option to purchase the game outright. While this plan may mean people could end up paying Microsoft less to play the new game, the company hopes that it will draw new users to Game Pass who will end up paying more over the long term. Starfield, which was released on Game Pass at launch last year, drove a record number of new subscriptions in a single day.

Other News

• Elon Musk traveled to Bali to bring Starlink satellite internet service to Indonesia — the world’s largest archipelago, with 17k islands, three time zones, 270m+ people, and an endless supply of Instagram Stories showing people on yoga retreats, details of the agreement were not made public.

• GameStop ended last week not terribly far from where it started. The meme stock’s 271% early-week rally plummeted to reality by Friday, ending with a weekly gain of 27%.

• Disneyland’s character performers vote to join the Actors' Equity Association after calling for higher wages and more dependable schedules

📱Tech Nuts

Apple Needs to Evolve to Compete in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Apple is unveiling new generative AI features at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10. While the company will still rely on the on-device approach, it's also planning to deliver services via the cloud. Apple will improve Siri's voice capabilities and add features like auto-summarizing notifications to help users with their day-to-day lives. Apple's generative AI technology isn't advanced enough for it to release its own chatbot, so it's teaming up with OpenAI to add the functionality to iOS 18.

Other News

• Microsoft set to unveil its vision for AI PCs at Build developer conference, AI PCs have neural processing units designed to specifically handle artificial intelligence tasks.

• Google and Meta have made it so GenAI is now free and ad-supported, forcing OpenAI to compete in search just to stay relevant.

• Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, is accepting applications for a second participant to test out its “Telepathy” implant. The company wants to embed chips in 11 people this year, and reach 22k+ brains by 2030.

• Apple will likely debut a “significantly thinner” iPhone in 2025, which would bring its top product in line with its just-unveiled 5.1-mm-thick iPads. (It’d also be more in line with Pringles, but that feels more like a happy accident.)

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🎁Miscellaneous

Trial HIV vaccine triggers elusive and essential antibodies, pointing the way toward a successful vaccine 

The Duke Human Vaccine Institute has developed an HIV vaccine candidate that triggers low levels of a type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies within weeks. It targets an area of the HIV-1 outer envelope that remains stable even as the virus mutates. Antibodies against this region can block infection by many different circulating strains of HIV. More work still needs to be done to create a more robust response - a successful HIV vaccine will likely have at least three components all aimed at distinct regions of the virus.

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