Happy Tuesday.
Made us giggle:
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Enjoy today's news.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic Sonnet yet, rivaling Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices.
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WhatsApp introduces usernames, letting users connect and chat without revealing their phone numbers.
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Meta announces Brain2Qwerty v2, a brain-to-text decoder turning raw neural signals into real-time sentences, aiding people unable to communicate normally.
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Vercel launches voice agent tools on AI Gateway, enabling real-time speech, transcription, and conversational AI.
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π rolls out XChat Android app.
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Arena hits $100M revenue run rate in 8 months, now evaluating real-world AI agents through its new Agent Arena platform.
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Tidal creates policy labeling fully AI-generated songs, banning them from earning royalties on the streaming platform.
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Replit launches a Desktop app for Windows and Mac.
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National Design Studio introduces Rampart, a 14.7MB AI model protecting privacy by redacting personal data before it leaves your browser.
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OpenClaw releases free iOS and Android apps, turning phones into private AI agent nodes via self-hosted Gateways.
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Tesla tests Cybercab without a steering wheel or pedals in Austin, driving autonomously through the streets.
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China unveils its first robot school, training humanoid robots to perform household and work tasks.
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Ramp study finds companies with higher AI adoption actually increased hiring, growing headcounts faster than low-AI-adoption firms.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Pretty accurate, but by 2040 this should be wireless, no? π
