Happy Monday.
Anthropic's Claude has started interrupting long chats to tell users to eat dinner, touch grass, and go to sleep…
Bryan Johnson:
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Enjoy today's news.
SpaceX launches upgraded third version of Starship for the first time. Booster lost on return, but upper stage deployed Starlink simulators, completed simulated landing, tested upgraded hardware and the new launchpad.
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PettiChat launches an AI pet translator that claims 95% accuracy in interpreting dogs’ and cats’ sounds.
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Polsia raises $30M at $250M valuation, approaching $10M ARR with zero employees. The founder says AI handled most of the fundraising.
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Meta releases Forum, a standalone Reddit-like app for Facebook Groups. Built for deeper discussions, anonymous/nicknamed posting, and an AI "Ask" feature that compiles real answers from communities.
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xAI launches new website and expands Grok Build to all SuperGrok users, adding integrations with Vercel, Canva, Gamma, and S&P Global.
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Luna opens waitlist for its screenless, voice-first Luna Band fitness tracker. It will be subscription-free (unlike Whoop or Oura), with early units expected later this year.
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Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief, who sold the company to Business Insider for $75M, launches The Austin Brief, his new newsletter.
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99% of CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs in the next two years, according to Mercer’s Global Talent Trends report.
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David Senra interviews Rick Rubin: swapping "Produced by" for "Reduced by," the 40% rule for editing anything past comfort, and being a "lazy workaholic" who shows up so the miracle can happen.
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Sundar Pichai sits down with Rowan Cheung (founder of The Rundown AI): AI's flip phone era, 75% of new Google code already AI-assisted, and engineers shifting from coders to agent orchestrators.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Acquisition founders Alex and Leila Hormozi are expecting their first… Mozi baby is coming, congrats! 🥳
