Happy Monday.
TIL:
Cognitionβs team flew to Park City a few days before Devinβs launch to finish the product.
Park City sits around 7,000 feet above sea level.
Some team members started getting headaches, so they ordered a stack of oxygen tanks.
Night before launch: one Airbnb, no sleep, and not quite enough air.
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Enjoy today's news.
Anthropic partners with California to make Claude available to every state agency and local government at a 50% discount, including free training and technical support.
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Cursor launches an iOS app for paid users to launch, monitor, and review always-on coding agents from their phones.
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Rocket Lab acquires Iridium for $8B, combining its rockets and satellite factories with Iridiumβs global communications network.
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South Korea plans $880B in AI, chips, and data center investments from Samsung, SK Hynix, and other companies to build infrastructure it calls βessential to surviving the AI eraβ.
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xAI launches Grok 4.5 private beta inside SpaceX and Tesla, with early tests showing it matches or beats Anthropicβs Claude Opus models.
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Apple acquires Play, the prototyping app that won a 2025 Apple Design Award.
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A2RL launches its first autonomous racing event outside Abu Dhabi at Imola in September, with driverless racecars debuting at Italyβs legendary Formula 1 track.
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Cursor brings CafΓ© Cursor back to London on July 11.
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Googleβs earthquake alert system warned 11.4 million Android users before two powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela.
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Soar founder Stanley Virgint launches a directory of iMessage AI agents.
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A global shortage of memory chips is forcing Apple and Microsoft to raise device prices, while smaller electronics makers face an βexistential crisis.β
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Complex posts a special Idea Generation episode: Noah Callahan-Bever interviews Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on personal superintelligence, AI glasses, and building through risk, failure, and ridicule.
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David Senra interviews Cognition co-founder and CEO Scott Wu on building Devin, the first AI software engineer, AI agents working for months, and why startups can still beat giants.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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