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Enjoy today's news.
SpaceX introduces Starbase, Louisiana, expanding its Starship launch capacity with a new multi-pad facility.
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OpenAI reveals early results for its custom JalapeƱo AI chip, outperforming leading accelerators with up to 1.9x efficiency and 3.6x lower latency.
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Waymo expands to Germany, starting testing in Munich to launch autonomous ride-hailing by late 2027.
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OpenAI rolls out secure website sign-ins for ChatGPT Work, letting it complete everyday errands without seeing user credentials.
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Uber tests a feature that lets parents view a livestream of their teensā rides, rolling out across nine U.S. cities.
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Google launches industry-specific Gemini Enterprise solutions for legal and financial services teams.
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Anthropic unifies Claude memory across chat and Claude Cowork, letting the AI carry context across sessions and workflows.
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OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Business Premium seats for small businesses and startups looking for enterprise-grade AI tools.
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Figure introduces Index, the world's largest robot training dataset with over 16M video uploads from 108 countries.
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Taiwanese prosecutors charge nine people over illegally exporting Nvidia AI servers to China, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees.
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Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band with health tracking, GPS, voice logging, and emergency alerts.
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ElevenLabs launches Composer, a section-by-section song editor that lets users rewrite lyrics, adjust keys, or regenerate one part without touching the rest.
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Stan announces Launchpad, a 14-day founder bootcamp focused on building in public, pitching VCs, and reality TV coverage.
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Mercury debuts real-time payments, enabling Column-backed accounts to transfer funds instantly 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
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Perplexity launches Portable Computer on Nvidia DGX Spark, offering a fully local AI agent runtime with no cloud dependency.
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SpaceXAI's Matt Palmer breaks down Grok Bot, covering setup, permissions, bot chaining, and workflows like syncing Twitter followers to Notion.
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YC Startup School 2026: Legora co-founder and CEO Max Junestrand explains learning faster than anyone else, freezing sales to fix product, and scaling from $1M to $100M ARR.
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New Dalton + Michael episode: Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the startup problems growth doesn't solve, from rising CAC to unclear vision and bad hiring.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Apple went fully handmade for this new Mac mini ad, using hand-sculpted sets and stop-motion. Cool! š¬
