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The US Space Force has pulled the plug on its six-point-two-seven billion dollar Next Generation GPS program, citing critical test failures and a timeline described as simply insurmountable. Rather than pour more money into a project years behind schedule, officials are pivoting to upgrade the systems already in orbit. It's a rare but honest admission that sometimes the ambitious path isn't the right one.
Shifting to the web itself, a Stanford-led study has put a number on something many of us have quietly sensed — roughly one third of new websites are now AI-generated. The findings carry nuance, though. Not all of that content is spam or deception. Some of it is legitimate, automated publishing. Still, the study raises real questions about what authenticity online even means anymore, and who — or what — we're actually reading.
And on Wall Street, Robinhood is navigating a complicated quarter. Crypto trading revenue dropped forty-seven percent, yet overall revenue still climbed fifteen percent to one-point-zero-seven billion dollars, carried largely by a record surge in prediction market betting. It's a revealing snapshot of where retail speculation is migrating — away from tokens, toward event contracts.
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