Happy Wednesday. We’re back.
Musk v. Altman update: Elon apparently wanted his family to control OpenAI. Altman called it 'hugely damaging.'
Better than anything on Netflix right now.
Enjoy today's news.
Google unveils Googlebook, a new line of AI-native laptops replacing Chromebooks.
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Isomorphic Labs (Demis Hassabis's AI drug design lab) raises $2.1B in Series B to cure every disease in a decade.
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eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover bid: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive." Someone tell Ryan Cohen this is not how you slide into DMs.
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Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the US.
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… While its employees are "tokenmaxxing" (gaming internal AI usage metrics to look productive).
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Unitree unveiled the GD01, a $650,000 manned transformable mecha robot with you inside.
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Anthropic declares all secondary-market shares sold without board approval void: billions in trades on Forge, Hiive, and others, gone.
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Google dropped vibe-coded widgets for Android (describe what you want, Gemini builds it).
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… And a feature to fight your doomscrolling habit.
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Google and SpaceX are in talks to put data centers in orbit. AI compute in space.
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Oboe Labs launches with a contrarian pitch, "AI is making you stupid": bet is humans learn better through active recall than instant LLM answers.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. While Unitree is selling mechas, SpaceX's twelfth Starship flight is targeted for May 19. We're either entering the golden age or the anime arc. Possibly both.
