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Schedule a demo to learn more 📱 Big Tech & Startups Sam Altman Has Explored Deal to Build Competitor to Elon Musk's SpaceX (4 minute read) Sam Altman has explored the possibility of acquiring or partnering with a rocket company to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. He has reached out to at least one rocket maker already. There were talks around a series of equity investments, but the talks are no longer active. OpenAI recently declared a 'code red' to improve ChatGPT. As a result, the company is delaying the rollout of other products. Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition (4 minute read) 2025's Spotify Wrapped has been released. This year, Spotify added a new feature called Wrapped Party, which pits listeners against their friends to see who is the bigger music fan. Users can receive awards for listening to certain genres, and the feature judges the entire group's music tastes. Spotify has brought back its interactive song quiz and top artist sprint this year. This year's Wrapped also highlights top audiobook genres for the first time. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology China's 1st reusable rocket explodes in dramatic fireball during landing after reaching orbit on debut flight (3 minute read) Chinese company Landspace's Zhuque-3 rocket exploded after successfully reaching orbit on Tuesday. The 216-foot stainless steel rocket successfully placed its expendable second stage in orbit, but the first stage booster appeared to lose an engine during its landing burn. No one was harmed in the incident. The anomaly is currently under investigation to discover its root cause. A video of the explosion is available in the article. DragonFire laser weapon takes down high-speed drones (2 minute read) Britain's DragonFire laser weapon shot down drones flying at 404 mph on November 20 at the Ministry of Defence's Hebrides Range in Scotland. The high-powered, solid-state laser will be installed in the Navy's Type 45 frigates by 2027. It can hit a target the size of a US quarter over a distance of 0.62 miles. The laser weapon can lock onto and fire at hostiles that are flying at a distance and at an altitude where they are above the curvature of the Earth. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Payments experiences that work or  and that inspire (Sponsor) Don't compromise on your vision for the reliable experience your customers deserve. Get the best of both worlds with Marqeta: a payments provider who can keep pace with your own innovation - and that's trusted by some of the biggest brands in the world. See what's possible Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components (4 minute read) There is a security vulnerability in React Server Components that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. It exploits a flaw in how React decodes payloads sent to React Server Function endpoints. Apps may still be vulnerable even if they don't implement any React Server Function endpoints. The vulnerability is present in versions 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 of react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-parcel, and react-server-dom-turbopack. Failed software projects are strategic failures (27 minute read) You need to know how to formulate a strategy to avoid strategic failure. Decide what your basic goals are, consider your positioning in your environment, and look at your strengths and weaknesses as a strategic entity. As a business, your first sweeping goal is continued survival, followed by maximizing total profitability. Consider different things that you can do in your circumstances to achieve your strategic goals. Organizations can usually only pursue a few goals at once, so set objectives that provide the maximum amount of impact with the available resources. 🎁 Miscellaneous Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup (4 minute read) Meta has poached Apple's most prominent design executive. Alan Dye has served as the head of Apple's user interface design team since 2015. Apple will replace Dye with longtime designer Stephen Lemay. Meta is creating a new design studio and putting Dye in charge of design for hardware, software, and AI integration for its interfaces. Everyone in Seattle Hates AI (6 minute read) Tech workers in Seattle tend to react negatively when the topic of AI is brought up. This is due to several reasons, like layoffs due to AI, the proliferation of AI in software, and being forced to use AI tools whether they work or not. The result is that engineers are no longer trying because they think they can't, and companies aren't empowering them because they assume they shouldn't. Bad products are only reinforcing the belief that AI is doomed. ⚡ Quick Links Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. Reddit's CEO says r/popular 'sucks,' and it's going away (3 minute read) Reddit is also limiting how many popular communities one person can moderate and pushing more personalized feeds. The War on "Anemic" Code (1 minute read) Anemic code refers to thin wrappers that explain nothing and add needless indirection. Tesla Optimus shows off its newest capability as progress accelerates (3 minute read) Elon Musk says that Optimus will be able to relieve humans of work entirely within the next 20 years. Streamlining my user-level CLAUDE.md (3 minute read) This post provides a CLAUDE.md file that contains guidelines that Claude should abide by while using its own planning and decision-making tools. Andy Konwinski Went From Jehovah's Witness Outcast to AI Evangelist (11 minute read) Andy Konwinski co-founded Databricks and Perplexity, and now he wants to solve 'species-level' problems. 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