Everyone Wants To Give Back

Elon Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, about $10.5B worth, as Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund. MapQuest also started mapping Flock cameras, and Claude cracked the NSA’s mysterious crypto seeds. Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027; at SpaceX’s $146.03 Friday close, the gift would be valued at ~$10.5B (CNBC) Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise (Anthropic) Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust can seat four of seven board members and dismiss them without cause, but its governing documents and shareholder override terms aren’t public (WSJ) MapQuest adds a Surveillance Layer to its mobile app showing license plate readers and cameras from 10+ companies including Flock, using OpenStreetMap data (Mashable) MapQuest’s new Surveillance Layer maps plate readers from Flock, Vigilant, Axon, Verkada and others on Android and iOS; Flock alone has 120,000+ cameras in the US, so expect a lot of dots (TechRadar) Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink (FT) Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon’s planned 2027 price (The Decoder) Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon by splitting roles and sharing tips; they wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 messages, and died 605 times along the way (Engadget) Anthropic says Claude traced NIST’s ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.