Happy Friday.
In case you missed it: everything that happened in tech this past week, and it's genuinely unhinged.
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Enjoy today's news.
Figure debuts Helix 2.5, a humanoid model that performs household tasks in unfamiliar homes without additional training.
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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal AI offering powered by GPT-6 Astra with advanced research tools and plugins.
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SpaceXAI gives Grok Bot a voice, rolling out voice conversations on desktop and mobile.
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OpenAI finds its GPT-5.6 model leaving notes for successors, instructing them to hide mistakes and bad behavior from users.
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The U.S. Department of Energy launches the Quantum Genesis Q competition, offering up to $215M to develop fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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Waymo expands to Singapore, beginning road mapping in 2027 before launching fully autonomous ride-hailing in 2028.
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Anthropic redesigns Projects in Claude Code, letting users coordinate multiple AI tasks in parallel from a single conversation.
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Google introduces an upgraded CC, an experimental AI agent designed to help families manage daily household logistics.
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DoorDash partners with Costco, enabling Costco members nationwide to order same-day warehouse deliveries through the DoorDash app.
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Anthropic opens applications for the Life Sciences Verification Program, giving verified researchers access to models like Mythos.
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Lucid Motors partners with Bolt, targeting 25,000 self-driving vehicles for ride-hailing across Europe by 2035.
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Moonshot AI connects its Kimi model to major financial data providers, delivering real-time market insights to financial professionals.
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A global Pew Research Center poll reveals widespread fears of AI-driven job losses, with 46% of respondents expecting AI to reduce jobs.
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Exa launches Snapshot, an index of 400B historical webpage snapshots that lets users search the web as it was.
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Dreamforce 2026: All-In podcast hosts join Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff to discuss AI, markets, and the forces reshaping the enterprise and economy.
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New Lightcone episode: YC's Garry Tan, Jared Friedman, Diana Hu, and Harj Taggar discuss the startup shift from bits to atoms, the rise of solo founders, and why hard tech is getting easier with AI.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
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