21 May 2026
I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric dinosaur. A cupcake with a pink candle magically appears in my empty hand as I finish my serenade. When I blow out the flame, a calm look of contentment washes over the CGI-esque creature. While the man in this AI video looks and sounds just like me, the clip was actually generated…
21 May 2026
A trillion dollar question: Will SpaceX's Starship launch go well?
SpaceX's latest version of it's mega rocket Starship goes through testing as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Wednesday, May 20, 2026.
21 May 2026
China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2
Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 - YouTube Watch On Chinese engineers have built a mecha-style robot that can quickly transition from two legs to four while carrying people, resembling the power-loader exoskeletons from Aliens or the utility-style mobile suits from Japanese anime series Gundam SEED.
21 May 2026
Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong visits Shanghai Humanoid Robot Exhibition and Trading Center: media
According to China News, Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Shanghai’s Humanoid Robot Innovation Incubator on May 21, 2026, getting a close look at cutting-edge advances in humanoid robotics and trying out a range of products.
21 May 2026
Introducing Shortcuts Playground: Create Apple Shortcuts with Claude Code or Codex
Today, I’m pleased to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past six months: Shortcuts Playground, a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can create any shortcut for Apple’s Shortcuts app using natural language.
21 May 2026
Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers
Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company’s Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN.
21 May 2026
Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Su…
On Wednesday, the Taiwan Keelung District Prosecutors' Office executed search warrants across 12 locations and is now seeking to detain three individuals in the island’s first formal crackdown on illicit AI semiconductor exports to China.
21 May 2026
Here's how to watch SpaceX launch its Starship rocket for 12th time
If you're invested in tracking ventures like NASA's Artemis moon program – or even SpaceX's frequent Starlink satellite launches – you won't want to miss the next Starship launch. SpaceX's mammoth Starship rocket could be getting off the ground for the first time in 2026 in just a matter of hours. Seven months have elapsed since billionaire Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company last launched…
21 May 2026
SpaceX to launch an even bigger Starship prototype
SpaceX is set to launch a new prototype of its Starship megarocket on a key test flight Thursday — one that could take astronauts back to the moon.
