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A quiet regulatory filing from SpaceX is raising loud questions about Elon Musk's Tesla ambitions. The company's latest ten-Q document confirms that any merger involving Tesla would require approval from SpaceX's controlling shareholder — that's Musk himself — directly contradicting his public stance that he's staying out of it entirely.
Shifting to the battlefield, NATO is moving to purchase six portable jamming systems capable of blacking out GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou signals across a radius stretching up to eleven kilometers. Each kit deploys in thirty minutes, runs four hours on battery, and can be controlled remotely over encrypted satellite links — a direct answer to years of suspected Russian interference.
And Jack Dorsey's payments company Block has unveiled an AI model called Dessa, built from scratch on nothing but human conversation. The goal is naturalistic dialogue, and Block has been sharing sample chats to prove it. Some exchanges land well. Others drift into genuinely uncanny territory — which, depending on your perspective, might be the most human thing about it.
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