Happy Tuesday.
Grok Bot early beta just got announced, and the character design is just so smooooth ☺️
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Enjoy today's news.
NVIDIA secures $500B from major Wall Street investors to fund AI infrastructure and data center growth.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos nears a deal to buy roughly 30% of Liverpool FC alongside Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
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Tesla reveals its first Cybercab with a built-in Starlink dish, powering high-speed internet for streaming and navigation.
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YouTube doubles its Partner Program thresholds for 2027, requiring new creators to hit 8,000 watch hours or 20M Shorts views.
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Apple debuts immersive ‘Friday Night Baseball’ on Vision Pro on August 28, streaming live games in 8K 3D.
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Google brings Venmo to Google Play as a payment option, letting users pay for apps and content directly.
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OpenAI expands its Daybreak initiative and launches GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model built for authorized vulnerability research and security testing.
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Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent, keeping rates at $2 per million input tokens.
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Kalshi partners with Nasdaq to power real-time trading alerts and market surveillance across its exchange.
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Google adds Aptoide as the first rival app store on Google Play, following its antitrust battle with Epic.
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OpenAI adds restaurant booking to ChatGPT, letting users find and reserve tables via OpenTable, Resy, and Yelp.
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Rocket Lab hits record $234M in Q2 revenue, debuting GHOST, a portable rocket launch system.
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Chatbase rolls out Procedures, letting AI agents follow defined steps, branches, and human handoffs for multi-step tasks.
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OpenAI completes a $7B employee tender offer, valuing the company at $852B ahead of a possible IPO.
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FinalLap debuts a live weekly car auction platform, running sequential lots with anti-sniping bidding every Friday at 1PM ET.
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Space launches a virtual drive that expands local storage via the cloud, keeping files instantly accessible across teams.
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YC Startup School 2026: OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger recounts its explosive growth to 4.7M downloads and lessons on focus and fun.
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New Huberman Lab episode: World Labs co-founder and CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li joins Andrew Huberman to discuss using AI to boost human intelligence, why intuition can't be replicated by machines, and how human-AI collaboration could transform health.
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New 20VC episode: Harry Stebbings sits down with OpenRouter CEO Alex Atallah on the rise of Chinese open models, why enterprises fear frontier labs, and OpenRouter's reported $10B Stripe acquisition talks.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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