Happy Monday.
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Enjoy today's news.
OpenAI ends its partnership with Cursor following its SpaceX acquisition, proposing to cut direct model access November 12.
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OpenClaw ships version 2.0, overhauling installation, memory, and skills while introducing shared cloud sessions for collaborative agent coding.
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a16z launches a $1.1B Machine Age Fund to accelerate the physical infrastructure buildout powering AI.
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Anthropic wins a court ruling that overturns the Pentagon’s illegal supply-chain risk designation.
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Apple raises Apple TV's monthly price to $14.99, pushing Apple One's individual pricing to $21.95.
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SpaceX starts building its own turbine blades, cutting generator delays by 18 months for AI data centers.
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Anthropic permanently raises Claude Code’s weekly limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans from September 14.
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A federal appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets as gambling, dealing a major blow to Kalshi and Polymarket.
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SpaceXAI enables Grok Bot to shop online, completing user-approved purchases using Link's single-use virtual cards.
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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and many other music publishers sue Anthropic, alleging massive copyright theft to train its Claude models.
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Photo-sharing app Retro raises $21M in Series A funding, doubling down on friend-focused sharing over algorithmic feeds.
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New a16z episode: Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, and Erik Torenberg unpack the Machine Age Fund, covering AI's supply crunch, data center redesign, and the case for hardware founders.
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New Lenny's Podcast episode: OpenAI product lead Tara Seshan discusses AI's shift from execution to steering, designing for future model capabilities, and why ambition is becoming the new bottleneck for product leaders.
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New David Senra episode: Sequoia Capital's Doug Leone explains navigating major tech shifts, finding extreme outlier founders, turning products into scalable businesses, and why AI is rewriting business fundamentals.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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