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Happy Friday.
Today on the timeline:
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Any startup that hasn’t been hacked this week?
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Enjoy today's news.
Binance reports a $6.3B hack, the largest crypto theft ever, which investigators tie to North Korea’s TraderTraitor, and pledges to cover all user losses after freezing $3B of the funds.
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Canva launches Brush, its first vision-language model that reads a design’s layout and style to make edits, working 69% faster and 46% cheaper than its previous agent.
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Granola rolls out Voice Typing, a free dictation feature that turns speech into clean text in any Mac app, taking on rival Wispr Flow.
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Spotify plans an AI remix service that lets subscribers turn a folk song into a dance track, targeting early 2027 and possibly costing an extra $4–$5 a month.
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Amazon adds 100+ new actions to Alexa for Shopping, letting U.S. customers manage wish lists, subscriptions, payments, refunds, and memberships just by asking.
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Digital Science acquires academic writing assistant Jenni AI, connecting its 8M users to a database of 171M research publications.
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Exa adds 3.2M podcast episodes to its search API, allowing AI agents to dig through daily-updated transcripts from 119,000 shows at no extra cost.
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Mistral releases open weights for Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model that tops open models from outside China on coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.
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Personal AI startup Wabi raises $55M at a $1.25B valuation to scale its app that helps users coordinate plans and share tasks with friends and family.
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Formation Bio announces a $600M Drug Development Accelerator Fund to buy 10–15 experimental drugs and use AI to speed them through clinical trials.
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Moonshot AI introduces 3D Make in Kimi, a tool that uses Blender and CAD software to turn text, sketches, or photos into editable 3D models ready for printing.
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Tella launches three agentic video tools for editing recordings on request, adding animated graphics, and filming web app demos.
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New The Circuit episode: Emily Chang hits the streets of New York with Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour to discuss how Kalshi became the world’s biggest prediction market, rising competition, and the debate over its impact on society.
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New Cheeky Pint episode: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Stripe co-founder John Collison to discuss making compute cheap, how OpenAI’s models found critical PHP vulnerabilities, and why sandboxing superhuman AI remains unsolved.
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New The Builders episode: Walter Isaacson sits down with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to dig into why believing in AI consciousness is dangerous, his disagreement with Anthropic, and the red line that would make him call for pausing AI.
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New All-In episode: Whoop CEO Will Ahmed explains the company’s pivot from $500 hardware to subscriptions, its 50 billion hours of health data, and its fight with the FDA.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. New skill unlocked: rejecting rejection emails 😂
