Good morning ☕️
Dear Model X,
Those falcon doors were never just doors. They were a flex. A moment. A tiny show every time they opened.
You’ll be missed.
Now, onto the autonomous future 😎
Enjoy today’s news.
Tesla will end Model S and X production by June 2026, repurposing its Fremont factory for Optimus robots and shifting toward autonomy, robotaxis, and scaling humanoid robot manufacturing.
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Google updates Chrome with a Gemini AI sidebar that can summarize pages, draft emails, edit images, and preview multi-step tasks like travel booking and shopping.
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Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon are in talks to invest up to $60B in OpenAI.
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Coinbase launches Kalshi-powered prediction markets, letting users trade real-world outcomes across sports, politics, culture, and more.
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Funding news: Waabi raises $1B for autonomous trucks and robotaxis, Flapping Airplanes lands $180M to build AI models that learn with far less data.
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Variant launches in closed beta to auto-generate designs, acting as an AI creative director that knows what looks good, finds the right references, and directs coding models for you.
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Neuralink has enrolled 21 people in its trials, with Telepathy (a brain implant that lets users control computers by thought) getting a 3× upgrade this year and Blindsight (a vision-restoring implant) ready pending approval.
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Fal partners with xAI as Grok Imagine’s day-0 platform partner.
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Spotify says it paid a record $11B to the music industry in 2025, its largest annual payout, up over 10% from a year earlier.
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Colin and Samir interview TBPN co-founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays on building the “SportsCenter for the LinkedIn crowd”.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Just watched Grizzlies… goosebumps. An AI short movie gem 🐻
