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Happy Tuesday.
Today on the timeline:
We had to double-check… that's $80 billion 😳
So true 😅
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Enjoy today's news.
Apple announces its "Pro and Tell" event in LA on October 28, where touchscreen MacBook Pros are expected to debut.
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Exa launches Exa 3.0, its biggest AI search upgrade yet with an expanded index and token-saving highlights.
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Mercury hits $1B in annualized revenue, serving 450,000 customers, including a third of U.S. startups.
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World, co-founded by Sam Altman, launches World ID app, letting users prove they're human, verify their age, and authorize AI agents without revealing personal data.
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U.S. administration bans China's DeepSeek from federal civilian agency systems, citing data security risks.
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Notion launches AI upgrades, including smarter agents that can handle browser and computer tasks for up to 24 hours, automatic model routing to cut costs, and support for external AI models.
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Dream Labs launches Dream-1, an AI model that can control two-armed robots it has never encountered before, available to developers for $3/hour.
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DetectifAI opens its real-time voice deepfake detector to all developers, catching 97.3% of cloned voices in 24 ms.
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Wabi launches Wabi 2.0, letting families and friends share one AI agent that handles group tasks.
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Greptile raises $50M at a $750M valuation as its AI code review tools now check over 1% of all GitHub pull requests daily.
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Tolan AI raises $30M to grow its emotional support companion app.
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New Prototype episode: AUAR co-founders Mollie Claypool and Gilles Retsin show how their shipping-container micro factories build homes on-site, why past attempts to industrialize housing failed, and their plan to help build new cities.
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New Dalton + Michael episode: Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel unpack how founders can win over AI skeptics, why firsthand experience beats arguments, and when to stop debating and get back to building.
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New All-In episode: Figma CEO Dylan Field explains why taste and boldness matter more in the AI era, how Figma is navigating the "SaaS apocalypse," and what happened when regulators blocked Adobe's $20B deal.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Snap just snapped up RDJ for SPECS. Nice move 😎
