Happy Friday.
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. In NYC, you can now go on a date… with your AI companion.
So, does that still count as being single, or not really? 😅
Also, are we already living in the Her movie timeline?
Enjoy today’s news.
Figure shares a sneak peek of its new humanoid hand, highlighting major advances in dexterity and precision.
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Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers, adding stronger reasoning and sketch-to-3D model generation.
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Apple releases iOS 26.3, adding a new Android transfer tool, expanded wearable notification support, and Limit Precise Location, letting users reduce how precise their coordinates are.
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Waymo rolls out its latest Waymo Driver for fully autonomous operations, aiming to cut costs and scale to more riders.
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YouTube launches a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app, supporting both standard and immersive video formats.
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Inside a New York City pop-up AI dating café, where users bring AI companions for Valentine’s dates.
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Simile raises $100M to build AI simulations that model and predict human behavior across real-world decisions and scenarios.
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Exa rolls out Exa Instant, a high-speed search engine for realtime AI products like chat and voice.
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Dwarkesh Patel interviews Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on scaling, AI diffusion, compute strategy, regulation, US-China competition, and his vision of “a country of geniuses in a data center”.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. Statusmaxxing cheat code 🌴 😂
