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State of Product reveals what AI still hasn’t solved
80% of product professionals say AI helps them ship faster, but customers aren’t seeing value any sooner. Atlassian’s State of Product 2027 explores the gains AI is delivering and the challenges that remain, from decision-making that hasn’t kept pace to gut instinct overriding customer evidence.
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Enjoy today's news.
Major security vulnerabilities affect PHP, Node.js, and GitLab, exposing servers to remote code execution and prompting urgent patches.
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Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that surfaces tasks needing attention, works in the background, and seeks approval before taking action.
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Tesla starts Optimus production at its Fremont factory, with Elon Musk targeting 20,000 units a week by the end of 2027.
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Apple Music unveils a new logo and wordmark, rolling out across its content now and debuting in next week’s iOS 27.2 update.
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Google Cloud adds OpenAI models to its Model Garden, putting them alongside Gemini and Claude in a catalog of 200+ models.
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Walmart introduces Agent Profiles and the Agent Gateway, letting AI agents shop for customers under spending limits and approval rules.
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Whop raises $200M at a $5.1B valuation to fuel global expansion and research into payments and advertising.
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SpaceXSI adds page-building to Grok Bot, letting users create and update reports, memos, and dashboards with the agent.
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Bolt picks NVIDIA’s Alpamayo software to drive its Lucid robotaxis in Europe.
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DeepSeek raises $15B in one of China’s largest private funding rounds to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation, working on methods to train and run AI models with less data and compute while improving chip efficiency.
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PhoneUse launches an MCP server that lets AI agents remotely control real, physical smartphones to navigate mobile apps and complete tasks.
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New New Things episode: Joanna Stern reviews iPhone Duo.
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GTC Berlin: Yahoo Finance’s Deirdre Bosa sits down with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, joined by Atreides Management founder Gavin Baker, to discuss AI financing concerns, open models, and competition from China.
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New Forward Future episode: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Matthew Berman to discuss recursive self-improvement, why the AI consciousness debate worries him, and OpenAI’s bet on its own chips.
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New Sources episode: Alex Heath sits down with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to discuss Gemini 4 Argon’s reception, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space, and whether the industry’s AI spending is sustainable.
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