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Andy O'Donoghue

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Healthtech by day. Helped make Macs a tad happier for a decade Broadcaster & Columnist

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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apple’s John Ternus Has Found a New Design Chief: Himself... www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Apple’s John Ternus Has Found a New Design Chief: Himself
Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (Gift Article)
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Starlink is laying the groundwork to offer hourly, daily, and weekly passes for its satellite internet service as part of a “Community” program that quietly emerged last year. uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...
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Starlink 'Community Site' Program Teases Hourly, Weekly Internet Passes
'Neighbors pay for flexible hour, day, week, or month passes — and you earn from every connection,' the satellite internet service says on the new 'Starlink for communities' site.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Geothermal company Fervo Energy announced Thursday morning that it had started selling electricity from its Cape Station power plant to the grid on September 30, one day ahead of schedule: techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/w...
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World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months | TechCrunch
Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls for teenagers, as tech companies continue to come under pressure to provide more age-appropriate experiences for children. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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WhatsApp introduces optional parental controls for teenagers
The social messaging app will let parents decide on privacy settings for their child's account.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers, so is SpaceX just being selfish or what? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The electric aircraft company, Joby Aviation, flew its autonomous aircraft over the city, showing that flight without a pilot could be possible in the future: www.ksn.com/news/local/p...
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Pilotless plane flies over Wichita, putting the future of aviation on display
“I think we will see this just as we do with cars and robotaxis.”
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Apple CEO John Ternus is moving to overhaul the company to accelerate product development and create a leaner organisation with a greater focus on engineering: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple’s New CEO Seeks to Make Company Run Faster and Leaner
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Ternus, just weeks into the role, is moving to overhaul the iPhone maker in an effort to accelerate product development, broaden its range of devices and create...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Code Nobody Reads Line-by-line review is going away. Whatever replaces it has to earn the trust reading used to provide. addyo.substack.com/p/the-code-n...
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The Code Nobody Reads
Line-by-line review is going away. Whatever replaces it has to earn the trust reading used to provide.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SpaceX’s Starship Makes It to Orbit for the First Time, but Returns to Earth Early The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/s...
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SpaceX’s Starship Makes It to Orbit for the First Time, but Returns to Earth Early (Gift Article)
The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October... www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alzheimer’s research is entering a new era, according to the 2026 World Alzheimer Report. Treatments can now modestly slow the progression of early disease, while advances in diagnostics could help identify it sooner. www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-i...
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Alzheimer's Is No Longer an Untreatable Disease, Major Report Concludes. Here's Why.
Dementia research has reached a profound turning point.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war... simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/...
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It’s …
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apple is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.'s wrist-worn device as part of an effort to rethink its smartwatch lineup and add new wearable technologies. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple Is Developing New Fitness Tracker Aimed at Rivaling Whoop
Apple Inc. is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.’s wrist-worn device, part of an effort to rethink its smartwatch lineup and add new wearable technologies.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Weird and Wonderful, the Lucas Museum Lands in L.A. - The New York Times share.google/WfGJe8mpQuc6...
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Weird and Wonderful, the Lucas Museum Lands in L.A.
A billion-dollar behemoth that looks like a spaceship houses the art collection of the “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson. It’s an instant landmark.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Snap Inc. revealed new partnership and software details about its forthcoming Specs augmented reality glasses, pitching the $2,195 device to early adopters ahead of a launch planned for later this year. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Snap Tries to Sell Consumers on the Idea of $2,195 Smart Glasses
The technically advanced Specs feature an integrated display and a convenient self-contained design.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Apple is working on an AI server that would use Apple’s high-performance M-series Ultra chips found in Mac desktops. The potential product’s expected release in 2029 would mark the first Apple server to hit the market in nearly two decades... arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/a...
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Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Agility Robotics has debuted its first humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to flesh-and-blood coworkers. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/a...
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Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week..... Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OpenAI Considers Pre-IPO Funding Round at More Than $1.2 Trillion Valuation ChatGPT maker has had preliminary investor discussions about a new raise; is likely to go public next year www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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OpenAI Considers Pre-IPO Funding Round at More Than $1.2 Trillion Valuation
The ChatGPT maker has had preliminary investor discussions about a new raise. It is likely to go public next year.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found. share.google/Jw9FJr4Db6RU...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another phishing email, this time pretending to be X : Apparently a “Dicision” has been made about “you page”. The spelling is a clue. The pressure to “Take Action” is the hook. Don’t click, report and if you ever need to check for any genuine account notices in the app.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Clever phishing attempt landed in my inbox: a fake @microsoft.com Outlook warning asking me to 'turn on security or lose access. The trick? Using your fear of being hacked to get you to click. If this lands in yours inbox, do not use the email’s button!
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows Code sleuth "pdfu" has uncovered frameworks that show Apple has designed the new Siri architecture to work with third-party AI models at what appears to be a surprisingly deep level... www.macrumors.com/2026/09/14/s...
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Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Code sleuth "pdfu" has uncovered iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate private frameworks that show Apple has designed its new Siri architecture to work with third-party AI models at what appears to be a surpr...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force.” arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit
The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force."
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.wsj.com/tech/persona... The update brings new features for models dating back to the iPhone 11; the AI boost is only for newer models starting with the iPhone 15 Pro
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iOS 27 Is Here. It’s Time to Meet the New, Improved Siri.
The update brings new features for models dating back to the iPhone 11; the AI boost is only for newer models starting with the iPhone 15 Pro.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Where Has Construction Automation Been Successful? www.construction-physics.com/p/where-has-...
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Where Has Construction Automation Been Successful?
Construction is famously labor intensive: direct labor makes up close to 50% of the cost of constructing a new single-family home in the US, compared to around 6 to 8% of the cost of manufacturing a c...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Apple’s iPhone Duo, New Watches, iPhone 18 Pro and AirPods 5: Everything to Know www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple’s iPhone Duo, New Watches, iPhone 18 Pro and AirPods 5: Everything to Know
Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled its first foldable iPhone, the $1,999-and-up iPhone Duo, finally entering a market segment that rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Huaw...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ (Gift Article)
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apple’s $2,000-Plus Foldable iPhone Was a Decade in the Making.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple’s $2,000-Plus Foldable iPhone Was a Decade in the Making
Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Meta Rolls Out A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/t...
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Meta Introduces Muse, an A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel (Gift Article)
Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Your fitness tracker collects plenty of data but is AI finally making sense of it? On The Last Word with Matt Cooper we looked at the best wearables on the market including AI-powered compression shorts and how they can turn raw health data into advice. www.todayfm.com/podcasts/the...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tthe demand for fast, cheap, and 'good enough' models is just about to take off: calv.info/small-models...
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Small Models Have Arrived
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🐥 @hf.counveiled the Microduck yesterday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399, and ships before Christmas. techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/h...
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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck | TechCrunch
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom The chip maker says its sales ‘flywheel’ is more than robust enough to fund the financial support it gives frontier AI labs and data-center developers www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...
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Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom
The chip maker says its sales ‘flywheel’ is more than robust enough to fund the financial support it gives frontier AI labs and data-center developers
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/a...
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Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'Security by antiquity': Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games apnews.com/article/chin...
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Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games
Chinese humanoid robots have set records including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Amazon’s Toaster-Shaped Robotaxis Are Hitting the Road The company is the first to charge for rides in its autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, dashboard or pedals www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Amazon’s Toaster-Shaped Robotaxis Are Hitting the Road
The company is the first to charge for rides in its autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, dashboard or pedals.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apple’s Foldable iPhone Will Help Bring Some Magic Back Also: Get ready for iPhone price hikes. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Apple’s Foldable iPhone Will Help Bring Some Magic Back
Also: Get ready for iPhone price hikes.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will likely attempt to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower arms “in a few months”: www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-sp...
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Elon Musk gives a timeline for SpaceX’s first Starship catch attempt
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced today that the company will likely attempt to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower arms “in a few months.” In a post on X, Musk wrote, “Looks like we wil...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together... thenextweb.com/news/slack-c...
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Slack Code puts Claude and ChatGPT in the same channel
Slack Code lets teams and AI agents write, review and ship code in one channel. Claude, ChatGPT, Devin and Copilot are founding partners.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anthropic Expects to Match or Top SpaceX’s Record IPO Size: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Anthropic Expects to Match or Top SpaceX’s Record IPO Size
Anthropic PBC expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX’s record-setting initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of overwhelming demand from investo...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The "Contact Us" form is quickly becoming the fax machine of customer engagement. Nobody wants to fill in 6 fields and hope someone replies by Monday. My latest column for @BusinessPlusIE on why conversational commerce and WhatsApp are taking over👇 businessplus.ie/news/end-is-...
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End Is Nigh for the Contact Form
The problem is that nobody likes contact forms.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
GenBio Launches a “Virtual Cell” AI Model Simulating a cell is desirable but difficult. lifespan.io/genbio-launc...
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GenBio Launches a “Virtual Cell” AI Model
This “world model” of a cell can simulate both its natural state and responses to successive perturbations, potentially transforming biological research.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
China’s Private Rocket Maker Just Landed a Booster Like SpaceX’s Falcon-9--Here's How They Did It chinatechbite.substack.com/p/chinas-pri...
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China’s Private Rocket Maker Just Landed a Booster Like SpaceX’s Falcon-9--Here's How They Did It
On Aug. 19, LandSpace recovered the first-stage booster of its ZQ-3 rocket—a Falcon-9-style, land-based, orbital-class vertical landing—on its 2nd attempt. "Musk proved it can be done, and so can we.”
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
States Seek $200 Billion From Meta Over Child Social Media Addiction Claims California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Meta to Stand Trial Over Claims It Addicted Children to Social Media (Gift Article)
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everything hackable will get hacked: vercel.com/blog/everyth...
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Andy O'Donoghue @andyodonoghue.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Google has been all-in with Gemini for the last several years and CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users, an important milestone for any Google product... arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/g...
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Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
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