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Anthropic's Claude has reportedly cracked a four-hundred-thousand-dollar cryptocurrency wallet, a story that's part of this week's roundup of major tech moments alongside Android seventeen's debut showcase and new hardware from Apple and Insta360. It's a reminder that AI capability benchmarks are now measured in very real dollars.
On a more human note, a pair of stories this week put AI companionship under the microscope. Wired reports that some asexual people are finding genuine emotional intimacy with AI chatbots, a use case that sidesteps physical connection entirely. Separately, people are now building chatbot replicas of their ex-partners, and psychologists are already raising flags about whether that kind of digital reconstruction helps anyone actually move on, or just delays the inevitable.
Finally, keep your eyes on the sky this weekend. An asteroid roughly the size of Chicago's Cloud Gate sculpture will pass within four times the distance of the moon on May eighteenth. Scientists say there's no danger, but four times the lunar distance is, in cosmic terms, a very close shave indeed.
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