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Enjoy today's news.
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra.
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AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2B, making Dr. Fei-Fei Li its executive vice president and chief scientist.
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SpaceX's Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink satellites despite losing one engine mid-flight.
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Tesla postpones its Roadster event to October 15, citing flood risk from Hurricane Polo remnants near its Texas test site.
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NVIDIA launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, keeping autonomous AI agents inside secure sandboxes to prevent system breaches.
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Anthropic introduces Claude Sonnet 5.5, delivering a faster, cheaper model that beats Sonnet 5's best scores at a fraction of the cost.
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Nothing launches Headphone (1) Pro with triple drivers and stronger noise cancellation, naming BTS’ V as its global brand ambassador.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will attend a private White House dinner with President Trump, signaling eased tensions between the two sides.
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Manus unveils Manus 2.0 and the Cue app, giving AI agents digital identities like phone numbers and wallets to handle tasks.
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Cognition rolls out Devin Mobile in beta, letting users manage AI coding tasks on the go.
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Wabi releases Wabi 2.0, combining personal AI agents, mini-apps, and shared threads for friends and family.
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Demi founder Josh Jackson introduces Gimme Gimme Ads, an automated generator creating 500 tailored ads monthly for brands.
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Momentic debuts Mo, an AI QA engineer that deploys hundreds of agents to bug-bash applications.
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Wajo founder Shivani Poddar launches Fo, a personal AI that deploys real humans for tasks AI alone can't complete.
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New Founders Podcast episode: David Senra explores Mark Zuckerberg's relentless ambition, examining his Roman Empire obsession, Meta's massive AI capital expenditure, and why he will never stop building.
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New All-In Podcast episode: Spotify and Neko Health co-founder Daniel Ek discusses Neko Health's $499 preventive body scans, broken U.S. healthcare incentives, and AI's diagnostic potential.
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New 20VC episode: Harry Stebbings sits down with Higgsfield founder and CEO Alex Mashrabov to discuss scaling to $1B ARR in 18 months and why AI moats don't exist.
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New Invest Like the Best episode: Instinct CEO Noah Shinn joins Patrick O'Shaughnessy to discuss app-less AI agents, building user trust, and rewriting the internet's business model.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
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