🍏 Apple’s Siri AI, OpenAI IPO, YC Startup School 2026

Happy Tuesday.

Siri AI is great and all, but… the Mickey Mouse pointers are back!

Oh boy! 🙂

Enjoy today's news.

Apple kicks off WWDC with its long-awaited Siri comeback, showing Siri AI, iOS 27, and a fresh round of Apple Intelligence upgrades.
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OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO, saying the timing is still undecided.
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Y Combinator’s Startup School returns July 25–26 in San Francisco, bringing YC partners, $25K in AI compute credits, and speakers including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Patrick Collison.
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Bending Spoons files to go public in the US, with 500M monthly users, 9M paying customers, and a software empire that now includes Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL.
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Lovable says users have built 50M projects on its AI app builder, with apps made on the platform now getting 720M monthly visits.
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McDonald’s is testing ArchIQ, a Google-powered AI drive-thru that handles 90% of English and Spanish orders without human help.
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Instagram now lets users reorder their profile grid, giving them more control over which content visitors see first.
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Meta removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses after Wired finds an unreleased “NameTag” system in Meta AI.
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China is preparing a $295B, five-year plan to turn scattered data centers into a national AI compute network powered mostly by domestic chips.
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Pieter Levels shares his 30-year project tracker, showing 8 big wins, 19 failures, and a founder-friendly reminder: shipping more beats waiting for perfect.
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SpaceX’s Dan Huot sits down with CEO Elon Musk and satellite engineering director Ian Dahl to discuss AI satellites, orbital data centers, and scaling compute beyond Earth.
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Indie founder Marc Lou documents his 512-day journey to $20K MRR.
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Marques Brownlee reacts to Apple’s WWDC 2026.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.

See you tomorrow.

P.S. Pump Fun launched its new bounty app last week, letting people pay strangers to do anything. Taylor Lorenz checks how it’s going. And… oh my 😬