Happy Wednesday.
The current thing in tech is Snap’s new glasses.
Timeline:
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Enjoy today's news.
Snap unveils Specs, its new $2,195 AR glasses with maps, restaurant reviews, shared whiteboards, and AI assistant tools.
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Google releases Android 17 with floating app bubbles, selfie screen recording, a new gaming mode for foldables, and updated safety features.
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Framer 3.0 launches with built-in AI agents, branching for safe edits, external agent support for Claude, Codex, and Cursor, plus a redesigned community.
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Apple plans camera AirPods and foldable iPhone for 2027.
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Cursor launches an iOS app that lets users code from their phones using AI agents and natural language prompts.
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xAI launches Grok Imagine Video 1.5, its new image-to-video model with sharper realism, better physics, and faster generations.
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DeepSeek raises $7B at a $50B+ valuation, becoming China’s most valuable AI startup.
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Shopify drops its Spring ’26 Edition with 150+ updates.
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Former Webflow CTO Bryant Chou launches Ploy, a $27M-backed startup that uses AI to automate marketing across websites, SEO, and customer outreach.
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Robinhood lays off 10% of its staff, company's first major job cuts in three years.
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Allbirds rebrands as SmartBird and names ex-Amazon exec Nadia Carlsten CEO, completing the former sneaker maker's pivot to AI infrastructure.
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Estonia is extending its digital identity system to AI agents.
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Databricks launches AI spending controls to stop “tokenmaxxing,” as companies look for ways to reduce AI bills.
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New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea interviews Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on building one of AI’s fastest-growing startups and reaching a $300M ARR run rate.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
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