Happy Friday.
OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux told everyone not to worry about compute. Three weeks later, they're pausing new $200 Pro subscriptions because Astra demand is outrunning their compute.
The timeline never forgets 😅
Enjoy today's news.
Amazon adds shopping tools to Prime Video, letting viewers buy products they see on-screen through X-Ray and visual search features.
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Snapchat debuts Snapchat Plans, a suite of event planning tools for creating, sharing, and managing real-world gatherings.
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OpenAI introduces a Data agent for ChatGPT Work, turning company data into answers, dashboards, and action through conversation.
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Cognition launches Devin Voice, a real-time voice interface allowing users to speak coding commands to their AI software engineer.
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Salesforce adds Slackforce Surfaces to Slack, an AI feature generating interactive charts, reports, and dashboards directly in chats.
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Universal Music partners with ElevenLabs to launch an AI music platform, letting users remix, mash up, and personalize licensed tracks.
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Cursor introduces Projects, a persistent workspace where a coordinator agent manages tasks, memory, and subagents over time.
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Stripe launches Treasury Agents, AI tools that analyze financial data and move money or convert currencies with approval.
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DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, offering an efficient multimodal model with lower API costs and improved performance.
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SpaceXAI plans to livestream its team building a company from scratch with Grok Bot from September 15 to 17.
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OpenAI ends its $1-a-year federal deal, shifting to usage-based pricing with a 50% discount for government agencies.
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Summation launches its AI analyst platform with $35M in funding, delivering verified financial data across entire organizations.
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Pocket FM hits a $500M revenue run rate, powering 93% of its catalog with AI while staying EBITDA profitable.
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Skild AI tops $100M in revenue after 10 months, powering real-world robots with its multipurpose Skild Brain software.
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New TBPN video: OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman discusses solving the Navier-Stokes problem, scaling Astra's computer use capabilities, and shifting from chatbots to active agents.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. Weekend evenings like this 😌
