Happy Friday.
First big tech IPO of 2026 just dropped: It's an AI chip company. Of course it is.
Enjoy today's news.
Cerebras goes public in the biggest tech IPO of 2026, raising $5.5B: stock popped 108% on day one.
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Bumble replaces swipes with an AI matchmaker called Bee that picks your dates for you.
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OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple after the ChatGPT-Siri integration failed to deliver expected prominence.
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arXiv will now ban you for a year if your paper contains hallucinated references. Fair.
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Anthropic partners with the Gates Foundation in a $200M deal to bring AI to global health, education, and agriculture.
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Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app: manage coding tasks from your phone while your laptop does the work.
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Harvard says AI isn't lightening the load: it's creating "AI brain fry," a new kind of mental exhaustion hitting high performers hardest. If you've had 4 AI tabs open and forgotten what you were doing - yeah.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you Monday.
P.S. This is how Mark Pincus built Zynga into a $12B company, and how he keeps building.