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Enjoy today's news.
Google debuts Playground, an experimental platform that turns text prompts into playable, shareable browser games.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest, fastest and most capable small model yet, costing about 75% less than Haiku 4.5.
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Spotify expands audiobooks to more than 180 markets, giving over 750M users access to 350,000+ titles in 120+ languages.
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Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful Surface yet with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, alongside new agentic AI features for Windows.
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Biohub, Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, Department of Energy, and the National Institutes of Health are investing $1.8B to build open biological datasets that could help AI simulate cell behavior, accelerate drug discovery, and uncover new treatments for diseases.
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SpaceXAI updates Grok Bot to search, read, and monitor 𝕏 and automatically route tasks to the best AI model for each job.
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Samsung forecasts a record third-quarter profit of $80B, driven by booming demand for AI memory chips.
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Google launches SynthID Detector globally, letting anyone check if images, videos, or audio were AI-generated.
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Crunchbase reports AI startups are increasingly buying other startups to expand products and acquire talent faster.
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𝕏 expands its Gametime sports hub to MLB postseason coverage, creating a year-round hub for live scores and discussions.
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Nous Research raises $90M at a $1.5B valuation to bring its open-source Hermes AI assistant to enterprises.
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New Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell video: how 700 AI agents hacked Hugging Face and why it's time to pay attention to what's happening inside AI companies.
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New HUGE* Conversations episode: Cleo Abram sits down with Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang to discuss Muse, data privacy, how to regulate AI, and personal superintelligence.
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New Moonshots episode: Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque joins Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss whether Claude is conscious, AI's "1942 moment," and Altman's warning to accept bad outcomes.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. File under: cute robots we now totally want in the office 🦀
