Happy Tuesday.
AI is flooding Apple’s App Store.
New iOS apps surged 60% year over year to 557,000 in 2025, the highest since 2016, as agentic AI tools let anyone build apps fast.
Planning to submit your app? Expect reviews to take at least 5–10 days.
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Enjoy today’s news.
Fast Company names its 2026 Most Innovative Companies, with Google leading and AI-driven firms like Anthropic, Ramp, and Waymo among the standouts.
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Anthropic rolls out computer use for Claude, letting it open apps, browse the web, and edit files on your computer.
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Figma opens its canvas to AI agents in a new beta, letting tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot create and edit designs.
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Figure founder Brett Adcock launches Hark, a $100M AI lab building personal AI systems and hardware to connect humans and machines.
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37signals makes its Fizzy kanban tool free, dropping paid plans for the SaaS version.
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Samsung adds AirDrop support to Galaxy S26 phones, enabling direct file sharing with iPhones.
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Apple confirms it will add ads to Maps this summer, with sponsored results appearing in search results.
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Wheely makes its US debut in NYC, offering premium chauffeur rides with plans to expand to five US cities in the next three years.
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Newly launches an agentic app builder that turns ideas into fully shipped apps, handling code, listings, and compliance.
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Kleiner Perkins raises $3.5B for AI startup funds, including $1B for early-stage and $2.5B for growth investments.
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Mirage raises $75M to expand its AI video tools and build agentic systems that handle entire video editing workflows.
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PlayerZero launches an engineering world model to automate debugging, testing, and fixing code.
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Lex Fridman interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI scaling, chips, and the future of computing.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Delving into the Forbes 30u30 prison 😂
