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Happy Monday.
Today in Houston:
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Enjoy today's news.
Anthropic files for its Nasdaq IPO under ticker ANT, revealing 14× revenue growth to $16.3B in the first six months of 2026, its first quarterly operating profit, and an $80.7B net loss.
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Apple unveils its first OLED iPad mini, featuring a thinner design with a larger 8.5-inch display and a faster A20 Pro chip.
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Block, Jack Dorsey’s company behind Square and Cash App, launches Dessa, a voice AI trained entirely on human conversations that can listen and speak simultaneously, express lifelike emotions, and run locally on a MacBook Pro.
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OpenAI resumes training its frontier AI models after a security pause, cutting off live internet access to stop agents from escaping containment.
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Instacart explores a potential sale to DoorDash or Uber, seeking stronger footing as competition in grocery delivery heats up.
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Cursor adds computer use to its editor, allowing AI agents to operate desktop apps and test the features they build.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX secured $40B in debt financing to buy Nvidia AI chips, while warning that many AI cloud providers could collapse as lending dries up.
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SpaceXSI adds a secure Vault to Grok Bot, letting it remember users’ logins, cards and contact info for future tasks.
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easyJet partners with SpaceX to equip its Airbus fleet with Starlink satellite internet.
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UK invests $134M in a world-first AI Biosecurity Lab, partnering with OpenAI and Anthropic to defend against emerging biological threats.
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DeepSeek and MiniMax receive China’s approval to release and license their AI models overseas, following Beijing’s proposed tighter export controls on AI technology.
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New a16z Show episode: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy joins a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to discuss Amazon’s $220B AI spending push, why AWS could become a $1T business, and how AI is reshaping Amazon’s teams and Alexa.
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New David Senra episode: Revolut co-founder and CEO Nik Storonsky shares how he turned a fee-free travel card into a $115B bank, why founders beat professional CEOs, and how he funds product bets like a trader.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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