🦞 Clawdbot love, Amazon Health AI, MrBeast tech tour

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.
🕑 3 m

Amazon rolls out Health AI for One Medical patients, using full medical histories to answer questions, book appointments, and manage prescriptions.
🕑 1 m

Google Photos adds an AI “Me Meme” feature that lets users turn their own photos into personalized memes.
🕑 2 m

Meta is pausing teen access to its AI characters globally as it builds an updated, age-appropriate version with enhanced safety and parental controls.
🕑 3 m

Coinbase forms an independent advisory board to prepare for the potential quantum-computing threat to blockchain security.
🕑 3 m

xAI works on topic-specific “For You” tabs for 𝕏.
🕑 1 m

Y Combinator launches its new website.
🕑 1 m

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.
🕑 12 m

a16z says vibe coding is driving a new iOS app boom.
🕑 1 m

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posts a new essay, The Adolescence of Technology, on confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI.
🕑 30 m

Molly O’Shea tours Zipline factory and HQ, showing how the company runs its end-to-end drone delivery system.
🕑 38 m

MrBeast drops a new video touring futuristic tech at Neuralink, Colossal, SpaceX, and more.
🕑 23 m

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 🎉