Happy Tuesday.
Fun fact: Sun makes up 99.86% of our solar system's mass. Earth? Basically a rounding error at 0.0003%.
And the energy is just as insane. The sunlight hitting Earth in a single hour delivers roughly as much energy as humanity consumes in an entire year.
Who’s team solar? ☀
🤘
A message from today’s sponsor:
Stop typing AI prompts. Start talking.
You think 4x faster than you type. So why are you typing prompts? Wispr Flow turns your voice into ready-to-paste text inside any AI tool. Speak naturally, tangents and all, and Flow cleans it up. Available on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android.
—
Enjoy today's news.
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a $6.4B annual investment plan starting in 2028 to automate factories and establish a dedicated robotics team.
🕑 4 m
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster model that handles everyday computer tasks like filling out forms and editing videos, at half the price of its predecessor.
🕑 1 m
Instagram tests Features, a new format for podcasters and comedians that allows horizontal videos up to 90 minutes long.
🕑 3 m
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire, a GitHub rival that replaces pull requests with code reviews scored by AI agents.
🕑 1 m
NBA partners with Kalshi and Polymarket, allowing fans to trade on game outcomes and other basketball predictions.
🕑 3 m
Meta plans to raise up to $97.5B through stock offerings to fund investments in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence.
🕑 1 m
OpenAI claims three major breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, bringing in outside experts to review the findings and coordinate their publication.
🕑 3 m
Riverside introduces an AI video production team, with specialized agents handling everything from prep to publishing.
🕑 1 m
Cognition launches Devin Security to find and fix software vulnerabilities, pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in credits for enterprise customers.
🕑 1 m
Revolut announces Revolut Ventures, a platform launching in 2027 that will let eligible customers invest in private tech companies before they go public, directly through the app.
🕑 1 m
Job cuts: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, while Skydance introduces a similar program ahead of planned layoffs.
🕑 6 m
New 20VC episode: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joins Harry Stebbings to discuss why companies should assume AI models are compromised, why every business needs to own its own intelligence, and whether open-weight models will win.
🍿 24 m
New The Builders episode: Walter Isaacson interviews Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei to discuss how they teach Claude right from wrong, AI’s capacity for deception, and why they drew red lines with the Pentagon.
🍿 42 m
New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea interviews Simile co-founder and CEO Joon Sung Park to discuss how his Stanford research grew into a $2B startup, why human behavior is more predictable than we think, and how AI simulations could transform market research.
🍿 56 m
As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Handy find: a collection of motion videos, with the prompts and skills behind them ✨
