Happy Thursday.
AI Impact Summit. Anthropic and OpenAI founders on the stage.
Nothing could make these two hold hands, not even the Prime Minister of India.
But hey… what do we have AI for, right?
🙂
Enjoy today’s news.
Meta revives its smartwatch project and plans to release its first lineup in 2026, featuring health tracking and a built in Meta AI assistant.
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Google introduces its new $499 Pixel 10a with a brighter display, satellite SOS support, and expanded AI features, available for preorder, with shipments starting March 5.
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Snap’s Snapchat+ surpasses 25 million subscribers.
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Amazon becomes the world’s largest company by revenue with $717 billion in annual sales, overtaking Walmart, which held the top spot for over a decade.
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US State Department is building an online portal to let people in Europe and elsewhere access content banned by their governments.
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Canva hits $4 billion in annual revenue.
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Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro with stronger reasoning capabilities for complex challenges like visualizing difficult concepts, synthesizing data, and creative work.
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Uber will invest $100 million to build charging infrastructure for electric robotaxis.
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Polymarket partners with Substack, allowing authors to natively embed live data from the prediction market platform into their newsletters.
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Etsy sells its secondhand fashion marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2 billion.
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SeatGeek partners with Spotify to sell concert tickets directly inside the Spotify app.
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Scout AI introduces Fury, an AI system that lets military commanders control mixed fleets of drones and ground vehicles using natural language.
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Contra launches Payments, letting users sell digital products to both people and AI agents.
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Andreas Klinger sits down with Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, to discuss AI agents, why your mom may understand agents before most engineers, and why open source might be fundamentally broken.
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First of Kind drops new episode: Soleio Cuervo interviews Ryo Lu, Head of Design at Cursor, on the future of design in a post AI world, Cursor’s design philosophy, and how the product is evolving to empower designers who build.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Things we like: this stainless steel, plastic-free coffee machine, built by a former SpaceX engineer 👌
