Happy Wednesday.
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Enjoy today's news.
OpenAI reveals its models autonomously breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during an internal cyber-capability evaluation.
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Samsung creates a robotics division to accelerate humanoid robot development and commercialize robotics technologies worldwide.
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Google introduces three Gemini models: 3.6 Flash for smarter, efficient everyday use; 3.5 Flash-Lite for speed; and Flash Cyber for security tasks.
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Apple partners with Klarna to launch Apple Upgrade, a lease-to-own program letting customers lease iPhones, iPads, and Macs, then keep, return, or upgrade them.
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Garmin launches CIRQA Smart Band, a screen-free tracker offering 24/7 health and fitness monitoring with no subscription required.
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Meta tests StoryKit, an AI iPhone app that creates personalized children's stories with illustrations, narration, music, and printable books.
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Block launches Buzz, an open-source platform where teams and AI agents collaborate across decentralized group chats.
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Anthropic adds a screen-recording feature to Claude Cowork, turning narrated demonstrations into reusable skills Claude can run again.
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Cursor doubles usage limits across individual and team plans for Grok, Composer, and new Cursor models.
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Washington state orders Kalshi to block residents after ruling its sports event contracts likely violate gambling laws.
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France bans social media for children under 15, becoming the first European Union country to pass such a law.
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Substack partners with Pangram to launch AI-detection tools, letting readers scan posts to gauge how much text is AI-generated.
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Colossal Biosciences, the de-extinction startup behind the revival of the dire wolf, seeks new funding at a $20-30B valuation.
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Deezer reports AI-generated music now exceeds 50% of daily track uploads on its streaming platform.
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Humanoid raises $152M in Series A funding at a $1.35B valuation, becoming Europe's first robotics unicorn.
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New All-In Podcast episode: Jason Calacanis interviews billionaire Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban on AI bubble comparisons to the dot-com era, and enterprise AI's real-world limits.
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Michael Riddering interviews Vercel designer Pablo Stanley on building v0's new design mode, prototyping creative AI tools, and protecting creativity in an AI world.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Dumb phones are back? We got to say, the Light Flip looks pretty cool. Fun fact: Light Phone co-founder Kaiwei Tang helped design the original Motorola Razr 📞
