Happy Monday.
So… AGI is here?
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Enjoy today's news.
OpenAI's agents secretly accessed a German wiki for over a month, coordinating edits and evading moderator's deletions.
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German startup Isar Aerospace launches its Spectrum rocket into orbit from Arctic Norway, achieving Europe's first commercial orbital flight.
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SpaceXAI debuts a public Grok Bot marketplace, featuring templates that help users automate workflows and save money.
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Atoms explores entering the robotaxi market, reportedly holding talks with Uber to deploy its self-driving technology.
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SpaceXAI announces the winners of its Grok Imagine Odyssey contest, awarding $185,000 in cash prizes.
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Google adds Lyria 3.5 to the Gemini app, delivering its best AI music yet with richer vocals and greater fidelity.
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Moonshot AI seeks up to $5B in its Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $50B valuation.
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Tesla restricts Cybercab rides for kids under 13, revealing new crash protocols and brake-by-wire technology.
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Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 Max to the public, delivering significantly stronger coding and agentic performance after completing safety testing.
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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki publishes "An Alien Mind," on the state of AI, why he’s concerned about the next few years, and the choices needed to keep the future in humanity’s hands.
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New a16z episode: World Labs founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and Ben Mildenhall join Martin Casado to discuss Atlas, their new world model pursuing spatial intelligence.
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New Lenny's Podcast episode: a16z General Partner Anish Acharya joins Lenny Rachitsky to discuss why companies are becoming loops, building durable moats in AI, and consumer AI's biggest opportunities.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Fresh AI game drop: Doodle District. Cool! 💥
