Enrique Abeyta:

Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Says Google’s Gemini 3 Just Blew Past ChatGPT: ‘I’m Not Going Back’

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he's ditching OpenAI's ChatGPT for Google's newest AI model, Gemini 3 — calling it an "insane" leap forward in reasoning, speed, and multimodal capabilities.

"Holy shit," Benioff wrote on X on Sunday. "I've used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I'm not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again."

Benioff's reaction quickly went viral, racking up more than one million views as of early Monday morning. It adds to a growing chorus of executives praising Google's latest AI release which was unveiled last week.

Benioff's endorsement is striking, given Salesforce's deep partnerships across the AI landscape — including those with OpenAI and Anthropic — and underscores how rapidly preferences among top tech leaders are shifting as models get faster and better.

Google's Gemini 3 arrives amid intensifying competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.5 Turbo and 5, as well as Anthropic's Claude 3.5, each pushing boundaries in reasoning and tool use.

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Ray Blanco:

Blue Origin Reveals a Super-Heavy Variant of Its New Glenn Rocket That Is Taller Than a Saturn V

Fresh off a completely successful second flight of its new mega rocket, Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has just revealed designs for an even larger version of the launch system. The new-look New Glenn will be even taller than the historic Saturn V rocket and on par with SpaceX’s Starship.

This super-heavy version of New Glenn will feature nine of the company’s rocket engines on the booster stage, and four on the upper stage. That’s up from seven and two, respectively, on the current version, which Blue Origin says will continue to fly alongside the super-heavy variant. Blue Origin is now referring to the two versions as New Glenn 9×4 and New Glenn 7×2.

That added firepower will increase the New Glenn booster’s total thrust and allow it to carry “over 70 metric tons to low-Earth orbit,” slightly below Starship’s current theoretical capacity of 100 metric tons. SpaceX is working on new versions of Starship that could double that figure.

The larger New Glenn will feature a much larger fairing (the forward-facing shield that covers the rocket’s payload) to allow bigger payloads at the top of the rocket. The added capability will put Blue Origin in play for missions centered around “mega-constellations, lunar and deep space explorations, and national security imperatives such as Golden Dome.”

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Chris Campbell:

New Wearable Device Lets You Touch Fabric Online, Read Braille, and More

A team of engineers from Northwestern University is introducing touch to the digital world with a new bandage-like finger wearable. The ultrathin haptic device called VoxeLite wraps around a user’s finger (any finger will work) and sends electric pulses through a grid of round nodes that function like a computer screen’s pixels for the sensation of touch. 

According to the team, the result is a device capable of adding physical sensations of touch and feel to digital experiences. Additionally, trial participants reportedly experienced “human resolution” in digital spaces. 

Smartphone users wearing VoxeLite could theoretically scroll over a sweater on Instagram and feel the texture of the fabric. Gamers in virtual reality could also use the wearable to sense the tightening tension of a bowstring or the slick surface of a well-lacquered doorknob. 

The finger wearables open more practical doors as well. In theory, the added sensation of touch in virtual worlds could help people with visual impairments navigate apps more easily.

“I’m most excited to see what entirely new forms of digital communication, interaction, and experience we can create together once we have access to a new sensing modality.” Northwestern PhD student Sylvia Tan said.

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