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Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Anna Tong / Forbes:
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans  —  The company says the next big leap in robotics won't come from fancier humanoid hardware.  It will come from applying AI scaling principles …

Sources: Copilot sales hit "big audacious goals" by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Sources: Copilot sales hit “big audacious goals” by March end after Microsoft pivoted its sales strategy; 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January  —  Microsoft Corp., responding to Wall Street feedback, has pivoted its AI sales strategy to focus on selling Copilot rather …

The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Kalley Huang / New York Times:
The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos  —  The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them.  Sadly, they can't connect to the internet.

Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are "lawfare" (Leila Sheridan/Inc.com)

Leila Sheridan / Inc.com:
Health data startup Bevel's CEO pushes back against Whoop's lawsuit that alleges Bevel copied the look of the Whoop app, saying Whoop's actions are “lawfare”  —  He says Whoop previously reached out to explore a collaboration before filing the suit.

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI (Gergely Orosz/The Pragmatic Engineer)

Gergely Orosz / The Pragmatic Engineer:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is back to writing code after a two-decade hiatus, submitting three diffs to Meta's monorepo, and is a heavy user of Claude Code CLI  —  Mark Zuckerberg and Garry Tan join the trend of C-level folks jumping back into coding with AI.  Also: a bad week for Claude Code and GitHub, and more