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Enjoy today's news.
Tesla launches a $225 balance bike for kids, featuring a lightweight frame, adjustable seat, and futuristic design.
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Netflix confirms around 300 titles used generative AI, mostly for post-production sequences like crowds and historical scenes.
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PayPal board considers Stripe-Advent $53B offer inadequate, citing undervaluation and regulatory hurdles.
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Hyundai buys SoftBank's 10% stake in Boston Dynamics, making the robotics firm a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Beehiiv introduces Community, letting creators build their own branded space where subscribers connect with each other, free or paid.
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Mimic Robotics debuts the M1 robotic hand and U1 wearable exoskeleton for scalable training of dexterous robot manipulation tasks.
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Harvey acquires Benchmark, an AI platform for investment firms, to support asset managers' full deal process.
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1Password integrates with Claude, letting AI agents complete tasks using stored credentials without exposing passwords to the model.
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DoorDash launches DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool letting developers order food through AI agents via terminal commands.
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EU directs Google to share search data and open Android to competing AI services under digital competition rules.
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Roblox launches Build, an AI tool that lets users create, customize, and share games using text prompts.
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Meta adds parent alerts for teen suicide or self-harm conversations with its AI chatbot.
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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, an open-weights AI model with multimodal capabilities, one-million-token context, and top coding performance.
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Vital Signals debuts Signal Ring, a $399 smart ring that measures blood pressure with clinically accurate readings.
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Indie hackers Marc Lou and Jack Friks launch Marketing or Die, challenging users to master a marketing channel and ship proof within 30 days.
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Decart rolls out Lucy 2.5, a real-time AI model that edits live video, adding effects and restyling scenes instantly.
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Sable unveils Aidan, an AI employee using real-time computer vision to handle live customer calls, demos, and onboarding.
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Pluto launches as an AI voice agent that learns your career story in 10 minutes to make you discoverable and connected.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you on Monday.
P.S. URKL stands for Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend, a commercial combat league where full-sized humanoid robots fight in freestyle matches. Launched by Chinese robotics company EngineAI 😮
