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Anthropic and OpenAI are both moving deeper into the enterprise market, each partnering with major asset managers to push their AI products into corporate environments. It's a signal that the race for dominance isn't just about building smarter models anymore — it's about locking in institutional clients at scale.
Shifting to something with a much longer timeline, a Japanese engineering giant called Shimizu has revived its Luna Ring concept — a band of solar panels stretching across the moon's equator, roughly the size of Texas and California combined. The energy would be beamed back to Earth via microwave and laser systems. Ambitious doesn't quite cover it, and the engineering and geopolitical hurdles are enormous, but the vision reflects how seriously some are thinking about post-terrestrial energy infrastructure.
And on a more grounded note, a growing number of users are quietly walking away from Google Photos in favor of open-source alternatives like Piwigo. The appeal is straightforward — full control over your own image library, no algorithmic sorting, no data sharing. It requires more setup, but for privacy-minded users, that trade-off is increasingly worth making.
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