Happy Monday.
Fun fact: Companies with names from Lord of the Rings:
Palantir – the all-seeing stone → Peter Thiel’s data and surveillance giant
Anduril – Aragorn’s sword → Palmer Luckey’s defense tech company
Valar Atomics – the gods of Middle-earth → Isaiah Taylor’s nuclear energy startup
Rivendell – Elrond’s sanctuary → Peter Thiel–backed venture capital firm
Erebor – the Lonely Mountain → Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale’s digital bank
Anything we missed? 🙂
Enjoy today's news.
Clawdbot is gaining traction as a local-first, open-source AI assistant that runs on everyday hardware, controls browsers and files, and has already passed 20K GitHub stars.
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Amazon rolls out Health AI for One Medical patients, using full medical histories to answer questions, book appointments, and manage prescriptions.
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Google Photos adds an AI “Me Meme” feature that lets users turn their own photos into personalized memes.
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Meta is pausing teen access to its AI characters globally as it builds an updated, age-appropriate version with enhanced safety and parental controls.
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Coinbase forms an independent advisory board to prepare for the potential quantum-computing threat to blockchain security.
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xAI works on topic-specific “For You” tabs for 𝕏.
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Y Combinator launches its new website.
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The New York Times: prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are moving from internet niche to mainstream finance, even as regulators question whether they should exist at all.
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a16z says vibe coding is driving a new iOS app boom.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posts a new essay, The Adolescence of Technology, on confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI.
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Molly O’Shea tours Zipline factory and HQ, showing how the company runs its end-to-end drone delivery system.
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MrBeast drops a new video touring futuristic tech at Neuralink, Colossal, SpaceX, and more.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Small milestone unlocked today. Thanks for being part of the first 1,000 🎉
