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Enjoy today's news.
Apple sets October 13 for its smart home event, with its first touchscreen MacBook and an OLED iPad mini reportedly following later this month.
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Meta bans TikTok and ByteDance ads across its platforms in the U.S. and six other countries.
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SpaceX acquires nationwide cellular spectrum, bringing Starlink closer to becoming a major U.S. mobile carrier competing with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
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Amazon unveils a new Alexa tablet lineup, featuring Alexa+ AI and full access to the Google Play Store.
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Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion in beta, letting users turn data into live dashboards and reports into editable animations.
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Trump administration suspends Microsoft, Adobe, and other IT firms from sponsoring foreign workers for green cards, urging them to hire Americans.
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Anthropic commits $150M to the Genesis Mission, bringing Claude to over 15 federal agencies to accelerate scientific discovery.
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Shopify adds Grok and Grok Bot connectors, letting merchants ask questions about their business and build agents to run it.
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Odyssey introduces Odyssey-3, a world model that creates real-time interactive environments and understands physics well enough to power robots.
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Atomic Machines debuts the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines directly from code.
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Developer morluto launches the open-source REA tool, enabling AI agents to reverse-engineer any software.
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Prima Mente launches a global AI competition to discover new Alzheimer's treatments, using a dataset of 150M brain cells and real-world lab testing.
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Arena raises $200M at a $3.1B valuation, releasing the Alignment Index to measure how safe and aligned AI is in practice.
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President Trump awards the National Medal of Science to Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Lisa Su, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Satya Nadella.
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New Bloomberg Tech video: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talks about the Dots AI agent, eventual IPO plans, and AI security risks.
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New This Week in Startups episode: Khosla Ventures' Kanu Gulati, SignalFire's Chris Farmer, and Better Tomorrow Ventures' Sheel Mohnot join Deedy Das to discuss Instinct's $10B valuation, personal AI agent use cases, and whether SaaS is still worth funding.
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New Office Drama episode: Chloe Shih sits down with OpenAI’s Holly Li to discuss how she became a product manager, launching Dots at OpenAI Dev Day, and how Dots stands out in the AI assistant race.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. The trailer for Netflix’s The Altruists, chronicling the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and FTX, just dropped 🎬
