Happy Tuesday.
Ferrari just launched its first EV: starting at $640K, with 1,000+ horsepower, a Jony Ive-designed interior, and no roaring V12, so it amplifies real motor vibrations into its own electric soundtrack.
Timeline reactions? Straight into overdrive:
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Enjoy today's news.
xAI rolls out Grok Build beta to all SuperGrok and X Premium+ users, turning its chatbot into a coding assistant that can inspect projects, explain code, run tasks, and build automations. Grok has a workbench now.
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37signals launches Basecamp 5, and the website is proudly old-school: show the product, list the features, explain the price. Throwback to a simpler time.
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Chinese scientists develop a handheld device that detects cancer biomarkers from a single drop of blood, with researchers claiming accuracy up to 10,000 times greater than conventional methods.
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Microsoft announces Build 2026 conference, set for June 2ā3, 2026, with hands-on sessions on multi-model training, agent workflows, and scalable AI systems. $1,099 in San Francisco, free online.
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Units launches as an AI-native high school alternative with a very clear thesis: schools banning AI are training students for the wrong world. Students use AI from day one, learn through real projects, and move faster than the pack.
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GitHub commits are reportedly up 14x year over year. Cheaper code means more apps, more bugs, and more systems for engineers to manage. More code, more cleanup.
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EU plans to fine Google a high triple-digit million euro sum for breaching the Digital Markets Act. It's expected to be the largest DMA penalty yet over alleged self-preferencing in search results.
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Pope Leo XIV called for stronger AI regulation, warning that some autonomous weapons are nearly beyond human control and that governments should not leave workers, children, and the future of AI to private companies. Anthropic was in the room.
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Hyundai Motor Group showcases Atlas, the Boston Dynamics humanoid robot, practicing everything from soccer drills and footwork to feints, hurdles, and celebratory goal moves.
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Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan interviews Eric Ries, author of āThe Lean Startupā, on defending companies against mediocrity, founder-led culture, incentives, and why ābest practicesā can quietly destroy value.
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Lenny Rachitsky sits down with Every co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper on why the āSaaS apocalypseā is overblown, why CLIs are dying, and how AI is reshaping work through forward-deployed engineers and rapidly improving models.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Indie hackers Marc Lou and Jack Friks launch Ship or Die, a startup-building game where founders must ship a product every 30 days or walk the plank. Level up, matey, arrr! š“āā ļø
