Happy Monday.
Steve Jobs passed away 15 years ago today…
😔
Enjoy today's news.
Apple tightens macOS full disk access controls, requiring explicit user action to protect personal data from autonomous AI agents.
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Tesla rolls out an emergency drive away feature, allowing U.S. drivers to drive off while still plugged into Superchargers.
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Suno introduces Speech, a beta audio model that generates voice and original music together from typed text.
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Amazon pledges $1B to data center communities, funding education, job training, energy upgrades, and local projects.
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Neuralink hits 50,000 clinical trial hours, powering a foundation model that reduces BCI calibration from daily to weekly.
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Meta opens Muse to custom hardware, giving developers open-source tools to connect it with sensors, speakers, buttons, and more.
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White House launches the Super Intelligence Force, coordinating federal agency efforts to secure American leadership in advanced AI.
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Vercel hits $600M in annualized revenue, up 148% year over year as coding agents drive half of new business.
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Anthropic invests $100M in Claude Frontier Academy, aiming to train 10,000 frontier-deployed engineers by the end of 2027.
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Department of Justice charges a California man with smuggling Nvidia AI chip servers, accusing him of sending $300M worth of servers to China.
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Promethee launches an app that turns work into a multiplayer game, helping users stay focused through competition and collaboration.
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Underdog introduces its private personal AI, running fast and capable models on devices people already own.
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Bloomberg Live: Ben Affleck sits down with Lucas Shaw to discuss Hollywood economics, artist-focused business models and AI's role in the industry.
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New Lenny's Podcast episode: ChatGPT and Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux explains the new Dots platform, agent-driven internet traffic, and obsolete workflow graphs.
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New The a16z Show episode: OpenRouter CEO Alex Atallah and Replit CEO Amjad Masad join Erik Torenberg to discuss why companies should own their AI, and how teams of specialized models can rival one all-purpose model.
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New David Ondrej Podcast episode: Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch details his agentic engineering workflow, covering AI CLI harnesses, sandbox isolation, and security slop debt.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. AI → SI… so SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI now? 👀
