Happy Tuesday.
About yesterday’s GitHub outage…
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Enjoy today's news.
Apple appears to have accidentally previewed its next AirPods featuring cameras, using Visual Intelligence to identify and save what users see.
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Cursor launches Origin, a code hosting platform that integrates directly with its editor and lets developers sync repositories from GitHub.
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Bedrock Robotics deploys fully autonomous excavators across commercial construction sites in Texas and Nevada.
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Wispr Flow raises a $280M Series B at a $2B valuation to expand beyond its Flow dictation software.
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Reddit tests narrated audio and video versions of posts, letting users listen or watch content like on TikTok.
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YouTube standardizes view counting starting August 24, registering a view the moment a video begins to play across long-form, Shorts, and live streams.
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OpenAI signs a massive 10-gigawatt Ohio data center lease with SB Energy, backed by Nvidia.
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Uber partners with Zipline on drone delivery for Uber Eats, targeting 1M daily deliveries by 2029.
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Higgsfield raises $400M in Series B funding at a $5.4B valuation to expand compute and enterprise growth.
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SpaceXAI launches a Grok Imagine video contest, offering $100K, $50K, and $25K prizes for creators depicting Homer’s The Odyssey.
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Motion Picture Association partners with ByteDance to establish copyright protections across its AI video and image generators.
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South Korea plans an underwater data center for 100,000 servers, using seawater cooling to cut land and energy demands.
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Alibaba unveils HappyShrimp, an AI music model that generates full songs with lyrics and vocals from text.
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Investing platform Public launches a marketplace for AI agents, enabling automated trading across stocks, options, crypto, and bonds.
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Gravis Robotics secures $200M from SoftBank at a $1B valuation, becoming Europe’s newest construction robotics unicorn.
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Designer and entrepreneur Jack Zerby breaks down the 3 levels of AI use.
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New 20VC episode: Harry Stebbings interviews Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald on Uber's China exit, Waymo's self-driving threat, and beating DoorDash.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. One detail Cursor left out of the Origin launch 😅
