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Happy Wednesday.
2010, Steve Jobs: “Touchscreen Macs? It doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible.”
2026, John Ternus: “Hold my beer.”
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Enjoy today's news.
Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, featuring a PROLED XDR OLED display with Dynamic Island, M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, and up to 24 hours of battery life.
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Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a durable laptop for military and government use, assembled in the U.S. with mostly American or allied materials, available for preorder in 2027.
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Google DeepMind introduces Genie 4, a world model that generates lifelike 3D environments with realistic sound and physics, letting users explore and make changes in real time.
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Samsung Medical Center plans to bring humanoid robots into operating rooms to hand surgeons instruments and hold cameras, with clinical trials targeted for 2029.
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Amazon launches five new Alexa devices, including the Echo Show 16 smart display with built-in Fire TV, an Echo Time clock, and an Alexa Photo Frame.
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Stripe introduces Stripe Pay for free, instant business-to-business transfers, letting companies find and pay each other using their Stripe profile handles.
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Y Combinator publishes its Winter 2027 Request for Startups, highlighting AI hardware, infrastructure, financial systems, and specialized software for real-world industries.
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Healthcare AI startup Concurrence unveils its Superintelligent Care research effort, building digital models of each patient to forecast future health risks.
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Liquid AI launches LFM3, a family of six open models that run offline on phones and laptops for tasks like voice conversations, describing photos, and navigating websites.
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Prem AI launches Fluso Agents, private AI assistants anyone can create using plain language that connect to real tools, handle recurring work independently, and report back when needed.
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Bloomberg Tech: Anduril co-founder and CEO Palmer Luckey joins Ed Ludlow to talk about BlueChip, the American-made laptop built with Qualcomm, and why the military needs fully domestic computers.
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New Trailblazers episode: Beehiiv co-founder and CEO Tyler Denk joins Erica Wenger to discuss what it takes to build a billion-dollar startup, why storytelling is a founder’s most important skill, and how creators turn newsletters into million-dollar businesses.
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New Lex Fridman episode: Mathematicians Ankur Moitra, Steven Brunton, and Alex Kontorovich unpack AI cracking problems like Navier-Stokes, whether AI can create new math, and what it still can’t solve.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Bygga walks you through IKEA furniture assembly, with interactive visuals and voice instructions. Sooo handy! 🪛
