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Happy Thursday.
Robot of the day:
Meet Curbie, a little yellow autonomous hauler that takes your trash bins to the curb for you. It can haul over 100 pounds, dodge obstacles, and work in rain or snow. One less chore to worry about ✌
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Enjoy today's news.
SpaceX plans to build its own nationwide 5G network, partnering with Qualcomm to power tens of thousands of cell sites starting in 2027, in a move that could challenge Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
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Meta acquires Conductor, an app for running multiple AI coding agents at once, bringing its team to Meta Superintelligence Labs.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.6, an update that turns prompts or photos into animated GIFs and generates images 50% faster.
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Apple cuts daily AI spending limits for employees, with further reductions reportedly planned as the company looks to rein in internal AI costs.
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Former Claude Code product head Cat Wu announces she’s joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products, the team behind Codex, just a day after revealing her departure from Anthropic.
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SpaceXSI upgrades Grok Bot with phone calling, letting the AI assistant call businesses, navigate automated menus, and cancel services on users’ behalf.
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OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer, maker of Code Storage, a service that stores code written by AI agents, to build its features into Codex.
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Atmanity debuts Atmee v2, a real-time avatar model that turns one photo and 10 seconds of audio into a lifelike character users can video-call.
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Moonshot AI releases open weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, letting anyone download and run the 2.8-trillion-parameter coding and research model on their own hardware.
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Pangram introduces Pangram Image 1.0, a detector that catches 99.2% of AI-generated images with a 0.27% false-alarm rate and checks videos via its Chrome extension.
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Agility Robotics goes public on Nasdaq at a $2.5B valuation, becoming the first U.S. humanoid robotics company to trade on the stock market.
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Financial Times Future of AI Summit 2026: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joins Madhumita Murgia to talk about why AI companies can’t regulate themselves, the threat of AI-powered cyberattacks and bioweapons, and how taxes must adapt as AI replaces white-collar jobs.
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New Invest Like the Best episode: Patrick O’Shaughnessy sits down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado to discuss why AI is an industrial revolution rather than a software cycle, the risks facing Anthropic and OpenAI, and lessons from the Cursor, OpenRouter, and World Labs acquisitions.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Beware of the agents 😅
