Happy Thursday.
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Enjoy today's news.
DoorDash unveils new AI tools at Dash Forward 2026, including text ordering, drone delivery, and smarter assistants for Dashers.
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Apple targets an October 13 smart-home debut, unveiling a new hub display featuring upgraded Siri AI.
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, delivering frontier performance for complex software engineering, knowledge work, and cybersecurity tasks.
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Samsung launches the Galaxy Tab S12 series and Galaxy SmartTag3, introducing a faster, thinner tablet and a smaller, longer-lasting tracker.
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Airbnb rolls out AI search and social features, letting users find properties with voice prompts and see where their friends have traveled.
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Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio, a watermarking system that embeds detectable signatures into AI-generated proteins without altering their function.
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SpaceXAI releases Grokipedia v0.3, featuring a redesigned homepage, new logo, improved visuals, and interactive elements.
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Trump administration taps SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey to lead Project Meridian, a Pentagon study of the future of warfare.
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SpaceXAI adds coding and team tools to Grok Bot, integrating with Cursor and GitHub to handle pull requests and project workflows.
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Instagram launches an AI video assistant in Edits, giving creators personalized feedback based on their own account metrics and trends.
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Stripe acquires embedded finance platform Parafin to expand credit access and financing offerings for small business platforms.
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WhatsApp expands parental controls to teen accounts, adding group activity alerts and content restrictions for Meta AI.
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NetworkOcean launches floating solar data centers at sea, running its first customer AI workload offshore.
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Ideogram introduces Ideogram 4.5, enabling precise multi-turn image editing without pixel shifts or artifact buildup.
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New The Every Podcast episode: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explains how his Dot agent gave back his mornings, triaging issues and building features on his behalf.
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New The a16z Show episode: a16z partners David George, Sarah Wang, Alex Immerman, and Santiago Rodriguez unpack 25 key charts examining hyperscaler AI CapEx, enterprise deployment gaps, and market shifts.
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New My First Million episode: Shaan Puri and Sam Parr test out Instinct, Muse, and Grok Bot.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Congrats to Vivian and Raphael on becoming the newest YC GPs 🎉
