SpaceX

15 hours agoNews Editor

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell says more than 2 million SpaceX shares will fund children’s Trump Accounts

SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said she will donate more than 2 million shares of SpaceX stock to fund children’s "Trump Accounts." According to her statement, the first batch of donated shares is now being transferred into a custodial account and is expected to be distributed in December. The initial group of beneficiaries includes children ages 11 to 17 living in ZIP code areas where median household income does not exceed $57,000, as well as children in areas with populations too small to calculate a median household income. Families tied to that first round are expected to receive notice by Monday. Shotwell also said additional donations will be finalized in the coming weeks. Those are set to cover children ages 11 to 17 in families of service members stationed overseas, foster children, and more children living in counties around SpaceX’s Texas headquarters where median household income does not exceed $90,000. She thanked the U.S. Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and related teams for supporting the project.

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Tencent

14 days agoNews Editor

Tencent tests youth-focused AI interactive content product Dongleya

Tencent is internally testing an AI interactive content product called Dongleya for children and teenagers, according to a report cited by ChainCatcher from Dujia. The product is available in both a web version and a WeChat Mini Program, and is currently being tested on a limited basis with parent-child users and teachers. Its main content format is an interactive card called Qimiaoka, which lets parents, teachers and knowledge creators use AI to turn knowledge, experience and ideas into draggable, simulated and operable interactive works. Dongleya also includes a built-in content community with ready-made materials spanning everyday knowledge, arts, humanities and natural sciences. Content formats include 3D models, games, picture books and animated courseware. The report said users can enter prompts to generate content such as Gomoku mini-games, then download them, publish them to the community or share them with WeChat and QQ contacts. The product also supports audio uploads and direct voice or text input to convert existing materials into interactive knowledge content.

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AI

3 months agoNews Editor

Mocha CEO’s Claude-Processed Recording of Toddler Sleepover Sparks Privacy Backlash

Nicholas Charriere, CEO of AI website builder Mocha, posted what he appeared to see as a sweet family anecdote: his daughter’s first time sharing a room overnight with her toddler cousin. He secretly recorded more than an hour of their late-night conversation, then fed the audio into Anthropic’s Claude to transcribe, segment, and label the clips before publishing them on a family webpage. The tracklist included titles such as “Stay Hydrated,” “The Buggy Lake,” “Match the Purple Dogg,” “I’m a Big Boy,” and “I Did Fart.” The post, published on X on August 2, quickly drew a harsher response than support. Charriere’s post received 4,475 likes, while the top reply drew 11,179, with critics arguing that toddlers cannot meaningfully consent to being recorded, especially in a private bedtime setting. Others objected to routing children’s conversations through a commercial AI system and then sharing the output online. The controversy widened into a broader debate about parenting and generative AI. Decrypt linked the episode to comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about using ChatGPT in parenting, as well as wider warnings around AI-enabled toys, child-focused chatbots, and the possibility that children could develop emotional attachments to AI that displace human relationships. At the center of the dispute is an unresolved question: whether turning intimate family moments into AI-processed digital keepsakes crosses a line that technology still cannot settle.

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Bit.Fan