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People are really lining up for smart glasses this time — amazing what happens when they look like actual sunglasses instead of something that makes you look like a tech villain from 2014. Oh, and by the way, AI is renewing prescriptions now.
Enjoy today's news.
xAI raises $20B Series E to accelerate AI infrastructure and Grok models.
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Intel is building a handheld gaming platform with a dedicated chip.
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Lenovo partners with NVIDIA on gigawatt AI factories program.
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It also reveals AI smart glasses concept with touch/voice control, speakers, and teleprompter mode.
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It seems smart glasses really are having a moment — Meta says high U.S. demand is forcing it to pause the international rollout of its Ray-Ban Display glasses for now.
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X opens Articles feature to all Premium subscribers.
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In a first for the U.S., Utah is letting AI — not doctors — renew certain medical prescriptions.
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Jon Fortt interviews Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the Groq deal, open models, physical AI, Rubin, and 25 years since Nvidia chips powered the Xbox.
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Peter Diamandis sits down with Elon Musk to discuss AGI timelines, robots, energy, abundance, and the future of humanity.
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As promised, tech and startups in under a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. “Forty years ago we had Pong, like two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality.” — Elon Musk
