Happy Wednesday.
TIL: Five stages of AI
LLMs — You ask, they answer
Agentic — You assign, it acts
Multi-agent — AIs delegate to AIs
AGI — Human-level general intelligence
SI — Beyond human cognition
We’re at stage two 🤖
Enjoy today’s news.
Stripe is considering acquisition of PayPal.
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Notion introduces Custom Agents, autonomous AI workers that route bugs, update docs, and draft team updates.
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Apple expands US manufacturing with new Houston facility.
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Perplexity launches Computer, a general-purpose digital worker that researches, designs, codes, and operates standard interfaces.
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Meta plans stablecoin payments for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp later this year.
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Google news: Flow gets an update, expanding into a full AI creative studio; ProducerAI joins Google Labs.
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Wayve raises $1.2B at $8.6B valuation to scale its autonomous driving system.
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Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley publishes first book Runnin’ Down a Dream, challenging the idea that hustle and happiness are incompatible.
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Mobbin launches its first Mobbin Awards to spotlight standout apps, sites, and innovation.
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Pieter Levels shares guide to building profitable bootstrapped startups.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Liquid Death partnered with Spotify to launch a speaker… urn? 😄
