Happy Thursday.
While most of us are still asking AI to summarize our emails, one team just dropped a roadmap to build actual cities on Mars.
Spoiler: it's not Elon.
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Enjoy today's news.
Google builds PhotoScan, an AI tool that estimates body fat from phone photos more accurately than wearable sensors.
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Amazon expands Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities, delivering items under 5 lbs in as fast as 30 minutes.
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Cosmic Robotics publishes its tech roadmap to begin autonomous city construction on Mars in the mid-2030s.
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Waymo rolls out its Ojai vehicle to all riders across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles.
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Salesforce launches Slack Code, enabling developers and third-party AI agents to collaboratively write, review, and deploy code directly in Slack channels.
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Amazon makes Alexa+ free on Fire TV devices in the U.S., upgrading users without requiring a Prime subscription.
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Meta debuts a beta AI app for Mac, featuring system-wide dictation and screen sharing for context-aware assistance.
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Replit launches Replit Free Mode, offering free access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna model.
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Calendly introduces an AI meeting note-taker and previews Callie, an assistant that automates scheduling and surfaces context from previous calls.
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Pony.ai launches autonomous Uber rides in Zagreb, marking Europe’s first robotaxi booking on the platform.
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Ramp opens Router to the public, a tool that automatically routes AI requests to the best model per task and cuts costs by 40%.
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Pocket crosses $100M in annualized run rate just 7 months after hitting $1M, with over 270,000 hardware devices deployed.
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Google buys Spirit Airlines’ anonymized internal business data for $10M to train its AI models and refine products.
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New Dalton + Michael episode: Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss how to find consumer startup ideas and why founders should resist replacing humans with chat agents.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Remember that Spirit Airlines email you rage-typed in 2019? It's training Google's AI now.