🕶️ Jensen charms Seoul, Bezos chases the moon

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NASA’s playing favorites between Musk and Bezos to speed up moon landings, Luminar’s running on fumes, and Grokipedia’s proving AI doesn’t just hallucinate—it publishes. Reddit swears bots aren’t driving its traffic, Amazon’s trimming thousands more, and Perplexity’s cleaning up with Getty.

Video pick: AI Influencers: The Downfall of Social Media

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Seven bullets of updates

🌕 NASA weighs SpaceX and Blue Origin plans to speed up Artemis moon landings after months of lunar mission delays.
🚨 Amid layoffs and a CFO exit, Luminar warns it has just six months of cash left as its founder bids to buy back in.
📚 An AI spin on information sharing raises eyebrows as Grokipedia publishes controversial claims in 43% of entries at launch.
🤖 Only 7% of Reddit’s traffic comes from chatbot answers, says the company’s CEO.
🪓 About 14,000 roles will be eliminated as Amazon announces one of its largest-ever corporate layoffs this year.
🖼️ Perplexity seals a multi-year Getty deal after facing plagiarism claims over its use of stock photos.
🛠️ AI and no-code tools are helping break down Web3 barriers, letting more teams launch decentralized apps—no coding wizardry needed.

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From AI to AR: Moonflow’s Mexican money play

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Moonflow is expanding its footprint in Latin America with the acquisition of Mexican fintech Kobro, a startup known for its tools that help companies collect payments and match invoices automatically. The deal gives Moonflow a stronger base in Mexico—one of the region’s biggest markets for digital finance—and adds Kobro’s local expertise and customer network to its growing AI-powered platform. For CFOs and finance teams, it means faster collections, fewer manual reconciliations, and better visibility into cash flow.

The move also fits a larger trend: as high interest rates and nearshoring drive new business across the region, companies are racing to tighten how they manage working capital. With operations in 26 countries and growth above 200% year-over-year, Moonflow is positioning itself as a key player in modernizing financial operations in Latin America—aiming to compete not just with local fintechs but with global automation platforms entering the space.

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AI Influencers: The Downfall of Social Media

In this video, we explore the truth about AI influencers and their massive brand earnings. We dive deep on how these virtual personas blur reality and simulation, raising questions about authenticity and their influence on social media culture.

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From Silicon Valley to Gangnam: Nvidia’s AI charm offensive

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is essentially on an AI diplomacy tour in South Korea, weaving together chip supply, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships into something that looks like an industrial alliance for the AI age. His meetings with Samsung and SK Hynix aim to secure high-bandwidth memory (HBM) lifelines critical to Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell chips, while collaborations with Hyundai and Naver stretch Nvidia’s reach into robotics, autonomous vehicles, and sovereign AI systems.

It’s a full-stack play: Nvidia strengthens its hardware foothold, Korea cements its role as the AI foundry of Asia, and together they sketch the blueprint for an interconnected “AI nation”—where data centers, car plants, and cloud models form one continuous compute ecosystem.

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