Pulse of the day
On weekdays, an AI issue is released here: strong sources pass through an AI editor and are assembled into a calm briefing, short versions for channels, and a finished podcast. On weekends the rhythm changes: on Saturday a weekly issue on robotics is released, on Sunday one on technology, so that neural networks, hardware, and tools stay in one stream.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shares AGI timelines, OpenRouter secures $113M in funding, and a Stanford study highlights racial bias in AI hiring tools.
A new GitHub tool bypasses safety guardrails on major open-source models, ClickUp replaces staff with AI agents, Uber questions AI ROI, and the Pope issues a major encyclical on AI.
Google DeepMind solves nine open math problems, Cursor hits $3B in revenue with a potential SpaceX acquisition, and Spotify launches new AI-driven audio tools.
This week's digest covers SpaceX's IPO structure, Meta's new community-focused app, and significant developments in biotech and infrastructure, including China's new underwater data center.
This week's digest covers the launch of Gatsby's humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco, ETH Zürich's new four-armed space robot, and XPENG's mass production of L4 robotaxis. We also track Linkerbot's potential $6B IPO and major industry updates from Hyundai, Figure AI, and Faraday Future.
OpenAI's reasoning model disproves an 80-year-old math conjecture, Meta faces backlash over employee tracking for AI training, and OpenAI updates Codex with new agentic capabilities.
Google unveils an agentic Gemini ecosystem, Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team, and Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is dismissed due to a statute of limitations.