Happy Thursday.
TIL: About 13,000 humanoid robots were shipped globally in 2025.
Nearly 90% were from Chinese companies.
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Enjoy today’s news.
Figma relaunches its Weave AI tool with simple workflows and templates, letting users generate images, video, and 3D assets directly inside its platform.
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Unitree partners with Alibaba’s AliExpress to launch global sales of its cheapest humanoid robot, the R1, next week.
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Unilever acquires supplement startup Grüns for $1.2 billion.
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Shopify launches AI toolkit that lets users manage their stores using agents like Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
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Perplexity adds Plaid integration, letting users link accounts to analyze spending, build custom trackers, and calculate net worth in one place.
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It also launches an 8-week Billion Dollar Build competition, where teams use Perplexity Computer to build companies and compete for up to $1M in funding.
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Revolut rolls out AIR, an AI assistant that lets users manage their money, track spending, and control accounts through chat.
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Stripe drops new Cheeky Pint episode: John Collison and Elad Gil sit down with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss Google’s return to the AI race, a massive $180B infrastructure spend, and how supply constraints could shape 2026.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Need to get wired in? Here’s the playlist Zuck had on repeat while building Facebook in 2004 🎧
