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Enjoy today's news.
U.S. government launches America.gov, an AI portal letting users ask questions in plain language, pulling answers from 29,000 agency sites.
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OpenAI unveils over 20 DevDay announcements, introducing always-on Dot agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, and collaborative Spaces across ChatGPT and Codex.
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Robinhood introduces perpetual futures with AI trading agents and 24/7 equities trading at its HOOD Summit.
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Oura postpones its $2.2B U.S. IPO, citing market uncertainty.
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Meta launches Muse for Small Business, expanding its personal AI agent with skills and connectors to help users run their businesses.
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OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro subscription to new users, cutting effective API usage value in half while promising more value beyond usage.
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Apple CEO John Ternus pushes to make Apple leaner and faster, cutting middle management to speed up product development.
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OpenAI nears $70B in annual recurring revenue, with enterprise sales more than doubling since July.
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President Trump signs AI agreement with tech leaders, favoring industry self-regulation over strict oversight.
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DeepSeek partners with Huawei to develop Ascend chip programming tools, reducing China's reliance on NVIDIA.
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Shopify buys shop.com domain for $100M.
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America.gov launch: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang join a panel to discuss superintelligence, scaling compute infrastructure, domestic chip manufacturing, and power grid demands.
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The Ezra Klein Show: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warns AI self-regulation is "insane," citing risks of catastrophic cyberattacks, bioterrorism, and mass job loss.
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The a16z Show: General Partner Anish Acharya sits down with Assistant Benchmark creator David Pawlan to discuss the personal AI agent boom, proactive assistants, and the economics of agent-native internet experiences.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Paul Graham on the benefits of joining an accelerator like YC 👇
