👋 Nvidia CEO resigns, Grok Bot 1.0, United Airlines bot ban

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Enjoy today's news.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after 33 years amid reports of extramarital affairs that raised national security concerns, with CFO Colette Kress taking over as interim chief.
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SpaceXSI launches Grok Bot 1.0, expanding its existing AI assistants with video meeting support, proactive task handling, and improved team collaboration.
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United Airlines bans personal AI assistants from booking or changing its flights starting November 11, citing privacy and security risks.
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome 2, an AI model that predicts how DNA changes affect different cells, helping scientists better understand diseases like cancer and diabetes.
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Tesla expands its Robotaxi service to be available 24/7 across eight cities in Texas and Florida.
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Google rolls out the Gemini app on Apple CarPlay worldwide.
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Stripe completes its Parafin acquisition, bringing in a platform that has provided over $3B in financing to 60,000 businesses.
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Google introduces Tabletop, a shared space where friends and family can ask AI to build tools they use together, like dinner polls, trip itineraries, and expense splitters.
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Helsing unveils Clarity, a European-built military intelligence platform where hundreds of AI agents sift drone and satellite data to flag threats for human review.
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Rodeo Robotics debuts vehicle maintenance robots that diagnose problems and handle routine services like oil and tire changes.
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Ploid launches Ploid Deep Research, an AI tool that compiles someone’s photos, videos, and social accounts in minutes and works inside agents like Claude and Codex.
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Roma releases Roma 2.0, a to-do list that turns voice notes into tasks and assigns each to the right AI agent.
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Fireflies turns its meeting notetaker Fred into an AI teammate that sorts email, summarizes Slack threads, and finds answers across 240+ connected apps.
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New SOTA Wives episode: Cerebras’ Sarah Chieng and YC’s Vivian Midha Shen sit down with former Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar to discuss shutting down his startup after raising too much, why he joined an AI lab, and whether startups can survive the labs.
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New David Senra episode: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev discusses how he saved Robinhood from a $3B crisis during the GameStop frenzy, his early fascination with investing, and why he dropped out of a math PhD to become an entrepreneur.
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New The Social Radars episode: Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz joins YC co-founder Jessica Livingston and managing director Carolynn Levy to discuss the failed blood tests he uncovered, warning his grandfather George Shultz on Theranos board, and the legal pressure he faced after talking to The Wall Street Journal.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.

See you tomorrow.

P.S. Jensen gets a new job at… Dunder Mifflin? 😅