☕️ NASA astronauts took iPhones on Artemis II mission

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This technology newsletter covers major leadership reshuffling at OpenAI, Elon Musk requiring SpaceX IPO advisors to buy Grok subscriptions, and NASA's first use of iPhone 17 Pro Max devices on the Artemis II lunar mission. The issue also reports on Anthropic blocking third-party tools from Claude subscriptions and significant delays in US data center construction due to equipment shortages.

Key Facts

✓OpenAI reshuffles leadership with COO Brad Lightcap moving to special projects and AGI CEO Fidji Simo taking medical leave
✓Elon Musk requires SpaceX IPO banks to purchase tens of millions in Grok AI subscriptions as part of the deal
✓NASA astronauts carried iPhone 17 Pro Max devices on Artemis II mission, marking first personal smartphones taken to the moon

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Anthropic blocking third-party tools

Anthropic copied popular open-source features into Claude Code then locked out competing tools

Contrarian Angle

pay-as-you-go API billing replacing flat-rate Claude subscriptions

Anthropic forcing third-party tools to switch from subscription access to per-token pricing

Engineers switching from flat-rate Claude subscriptions to pay-as-you-go API billing

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