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AI & Enterprise
Google plans release of 32 million AI-selected mosquitoes in Florida to test disease control
Google is seeking to conduct large-scale field trials in Florida using male mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia bacteria, selected with AI and automation, to reduce mosquito populations and curb the spread of diseases such as West Nile virus. Public EPA documents show its Debug project applied to release up to 32 million Wolbachia-treated male house mosquitoes in Florida and 32 million in California, with Florida releases split over two years. Public comments run until June 5.
Telecommunications & Media
SpaceX to block Starlink GPS-alternative location feature as low-Earth orbit navigation race intensifies
Starlink will stop providing a location-information feature it has offered to some users from May 20, local time. The feature has been used as a de facto auxiliary navigation tool in environments where GPS signals are jammed. SpaceX earlier acknowledged Starlink could provide positioning, navigation and timing services, and some users accessed dish location data through the app’s debug menu. SpaceX did not explain why it is ending the feature, as interest in GPS alternatives grows.
AI & Enterprise
Anthropic IPO plans shaken by massive source code leak
Anthropic accidentally made public 512,000 lines of proprietary source code for its AI coding tool Claude Code, after debug files were included in a regular npm update, a report said. Security researcher Chaofan Shou (차오판 쇼우) posted a download link on X, and the code spread to GitHub before DMCA takedown requests followed. The leak follows another incident five days earlier involving about 3,000 internal files, the report said.
