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This Lunar Resource Is So Valuable It Could Spark a New Gold Rush

Interlune has a plan to extract Helium-3, a substance worth a reported $20,000,000 per kilogram, from the moon. Here’s how.

There’s a resource in lunar soil so valuable it could ignite a 21st-century gold rush. At a reported value of $20 million per kilogram, this material is roughly 150 times more valuable than gold due to its potential use in fusion power plants, cooling for quantum computers, and its current use in detecting attempted smuggling of nuclear materials for national security purposes.

Seattle-based startup Interlune is one of a handful of space resource extraction companies aiming to harness this material to establish a lunar economy. It has designed a prototype to extract it from the moon’s surface and a plan to bring it home.

NASA’s Artemis Program is developing key infrastructure to return to the moon and stay, creating an opportunity for companies like Interlune to bring their own technologies and business plans to the lunar surface.

The company has built a full-scale prototype excavator with the help of Vermeer, makers of industrial and agricultural machinery, that it’s currently testing on Earth. But with the moon’s lower gravity, lack of atmosphere, and unique soil composition, there are several different factors at play that Interlune needs to optimize for.

Interlune says it is also going to be using its Helium-3 extraction process to harvest Helium-3 from Earth, but Earth’s supply of Helium-3 is extremely limited. The primary way Earth’s supply of Helium-3 increases is through the decay of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used in applications such as nuclear reactors, fusion reactors, and weapons. Tritium itself is also very scarce and expensive, costing tens of thousands of dollars per gram.

On the other hand, the Helium-3 on the moon was made by the sun and deposited on the lunar surface via the solar wind over billions of years. Solar wind is a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun that can cause damage to Earthly technologies like power grids, satellites and communication networks. Earth’s magnetic field acts like a powerful shield against the solar wind which benefits us in many ways, but it is also part of what makes Helium-3 so scarce and valuable here on Earth.

Deliveries of Helium-3 are planned to start in 2029, and Interlune already has purchase agreements with companies like Maybell and Bluefors, which need Helium-3 for building the chandelier-like dilution refrigerators that cool quantum computers to near absolute zero so they can function.

To see Interlune’s prototype lunar excavator in action, check out the video in this article.

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Verum Messenger: Don’t follow the future. Define it

In a world where information defines influence, Verum Messenger is building a new architecture of digital communication — intelligent, secure, and ready for tomorrow. Here, technology serves not limitations, but possibilities.

Not being part of change. Leading it. Verum Messenger — the future that speaks first.

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Google races to put Gemini at the center of Android before Apple’s AI reboot

Google is using its latest Android rollout to position Gemini as the AI layer across phones, Chrome, laptops and cars.

Google is using its latest Android rollout to make Gemini less of a chatbot and more of an operating layer across the phone, browser, car and laptop, just weeks before Apple is expected to show its own Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence reboot at WWDC.
Ahead of its Google I/O developer conference next week, the company previewed a number of Android updates, including AI-powered app automation, a smarter version of Chrome on Android, new tools for creators, a redesigned Android Auto experience, and a sweeping set of new security features.
Alphabet is counting on Gemini to help Google compete directly with OpenAI and Anthropic in the market for artificial intelligence models and services, while also serving as the AI backbone across its expansive portfolio of products, including Android. Meanwhile, Gemini is powering part of Apple’s new AI strategy, giving Google a role in the iPhone maker’s reset even as it races to prove its own version of personal AI on the phone is further along.
Sameer Samat, who oversees Google’s Android ecosystem, told CNBC that Google is rebuilding parts of Android around Gemini Intelligence to help users complete everyday tasks more easily.
“We’re transitioning from an operating system to an intelligence system,” he said.
As part of Tuesday’s announcements. Google said Gemini Intelligence will be able to move across apps, understand what’s on the screen and complete tasks that would normally require a user to jump between multiple services. That means Android is moving beyond the traditional assistant model, where users ask a question and get an answer, and acting more like an agent.
For instance, Google says Gemini can pull relevant information from Gmail, build shopping carts and book reservations. Samat gave the example of asking Gemini to look at the guest list for a barbecue, build a menu, add ingredients to an Instacart list and return for approval before checkout.
A big concern surrounding agentic AI involves software taking action on a user’s behalf without permissions. Samat said Gemini will come back to the user before completing a transaction, adding, “the human is always in the loop.”
Four months after announcing its Gemini deal with Google, Apple is under pressure to show a more capable version of Apple Intelligence, which has been a relative laggard on the market. Apple has long framed privacy, hardware integration and control of the user experience as its advantages.
Google’s Android push is designed to show it can bring AI deeper into the device experience while still giving users control over what Gemini can see, where it can act and when it needs confirmation.
The app automation features will roll out in waves, starting with the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer, before expanding across more Android devices, including watches, cars, glasses and laptops later this year.
The company is also redesigning Android Auto around Gemini, turning the car into another major surface for its assistant. Android Auto is in more than 250 million cars, and Google says the new release includes its biggest maps update in a decade and Gemini-powered help with tasks like ordering dinner while driving.
Alphabet’s AI strategy has been embraced by Wall Street, which has pushed the company’s stock price up more than 140% in the past year, compared to Apple’s roughly 40% gain. Investors now want to see how Gemini can become more central to the products people use every day.
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