/ MARKET MOVES /
• Lovable raises another $300 million at a $6.6B valuation (this wat $1.8B just five months ago). At what point do we sit the VCs down, hold their hands, and gently ask what's going on at home?… Read more |
• OpenAI are raising $10B from Amazon. Which backs Anthropic. Which backed by Google. Microsoft backs both. Nvidia's in all of them. Somewhere there's a detective pinning photos to a corkboard with red string trying to figure out who's actually competing with who… Read more |
• Cursor acquired Graphite because devs couldn't review code fast enough. So now AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. Can you human developers at least click the big “merge” button or do we need to acquire someone for that too?… Read more |
• Flipkart bought Minivet AI to turn product photos into AI videos. Can't wait to watch a deepfake kettle rotate for 45 seconds straight… Read more |
• Databricks raised $4billion a Series L. Yes, Series L. Most companies IPO by Series C. Databricks looked at the alphabet and said "we're not done yet"… Read more |
• Yann LeCun confirmed his new startup AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) seeking a $5B+ to build the AI he's been insisting everyone else should've built all along. He's not CEO (someone has to actually run it while he posts), but he's executive chairman of telling everyone "I told you so." |
• ClickUp acquired AI coding startup Codegen (Cursor rival) to build their agents, for an undisclosed amount, which will probably be disclosed by an intern on LinkedIn next week. … Read more |
• Nvidia Acquires Groq for $20 billion in historic AI chip deal, as AI shifts from training (Nvidia's stronghold) to inference (where they face pressure from Groq, AMD, Cerebras)… Read more |
• Figure AI raised another $1B and now at $39B valuation for AI humanoids. With this much money, the robot boots up thinking it's the Terminator. While in reality I imagine him waking up, looking up at the head of R&D, which hands him a note the reads: "You fold laundry" 🤣… Read more |
• Intel are buying AI inference company SambaNova for $1.6B. Fun fact though, Intel’s CEO? yeah he is also SambaNova's Executive Chairman. AI companies are like that Spiderman meme where they all pointing at each other… Read more |
/ LAUNCHES /
• Google dropped Gemini 3 Flash. It's faster than Pro, cheaper than Pro, and beats 2.5 Pro. At this point Google is just competing with itself… Read more |
• OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex with "improved long-horizon work," which is nerd for "it works 8 hours straight without asking if you're still watching." kinda like that Netflix feature, just without refactoring your entire living room while you’re asleep… Read more |
• OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images, it makes precise edits, and generates images up to 4x faster than before, its also available in the api as gpt-1.5-image… Read more |
• ClickUp launched "Super Agents" AI employees you can @mention just like real teammates. They work 24/7, have "infinite memory," and one prompt spins up an entire team. HR is gonna have a really weird time explaining this on the next all-hands… Read more |
• OpenAI introduced new personalization options for ChatGPT, allowing users to adjust enthusiasm, warmth, emoji use, and formatting… Read more |
• Manus launched Manus 1.6, this release introduces three major leaps forward: Manus 1.6 Max, their most powerful agent yet, Mobile Development, for building beyond the web, and Design View, for interactive image creation.… Read more |
• OpenAI has launched app directory, allowing users to search, discover, and install apps, developer submissions are also now open… Read more |
• Kling shipped v2.6 with three upgrades: (1) upload custom voices so AI characters speak consistently across videos, (2) automatic audio generation (dialogue, sound effects, ambient noise), and (3) better motion tracking for dance/martial arts... Read more |
• Zoom launched AI Companion 3.0, analyzing your Zoom meetings, Team Chat, and connected apps (Gmail, Drive, OneDrive) to automatically generate daily summaries, draft follow-ups, and surface key insights… Read more |
• Luma AI launched Ray3 Modify, which lets you film an actor once, then change the video’s background, actors clothes, or entire visual style with a a single prompt… Watch |
• Tiny Fish launched Mino, a web agent API that logs into websites for you, handling passwords, CAPTCHAs, and auth barriers to access data behind login walls that normal scraping can't reach. Read more |
• Anthropic launched Claude in Chrome beta with Claude Code integration, workflow recording, scheduled tasks, planning mode, multi-tab workflows, and browser control from desktop… Read more |
• xAI released the “Grok Voice Agent API”, real-time speech-to-speech at $0.05/minute (half the price of OpenAI), sub-1-second response time, multilingual, can call tools, search the web and X... Read more |
• DoorDash is testing Zesty—a new app that replaces "scrolling through 47 TikToks about brunch spots" with an AI that just tells you where to go. It pulls from multiple sources and has Instagram-style social features. No ordering yet, just discovery… Read more |
• ElevenLabs now integrates with WhatsApp, letting businesses deploy AI voice agents that can answer both calls and texts from customers through Whatsapp… Read more |
• Google Labs launched “CC”, an AI productivity agent that reads your Gmail, Calendar and Drive to send you a daily "Your Day Ahead" email with meeting prep, drafted replies and task summaries… Read more |
• Lovable launched direct ChatGPT integration, so you can brainstorm an app idea in ChatGPT, tag @Lovable, and it builds you a working full-stack web app straight from the chat.… Read more |
• Meta launched SAM Audio, an AI model that lets you isolate any sound from audio by typing what you want, kinda like Photoshop but for sound,and they're already testing it with hearing aid manufacturers… Read more |
• Langflow 1.7 was released, featuring upgrades to MCP transports with Streamable HTTP, new agent options, and additional components for flows… Read more |
• xAI released ״Collections”, a RAG-as-a-service API that handles all the embedding, indexing, and vector search infrastructure for you, just upload docs and query them with semantic, keyword, or hybrid search.… Read more |
• Vercel AI SDK 6 is out of beta, with everything developers have been duct-taping together manually: ToolLoopAgent (handles the full tool execution loop), tool approval (human oversight before your agent does something stupid), MCP integration that's actually stable, and DevTools to see why your agent decided to call weather() 18 times in a row… Read more |
• Firecrawl launched “Agent”, you don't need URLs anymore. Just tell it what data you’re after and Agent searches the web, figures out where to look, clicks through pages, and comes back with a dataset… Read more |
• Amazon has launched a new built-in AI shopping assistant called Rufus. It knows what you bought before, can reorder past items, automatically add products to cart, and even find stuff outside Amazon to buy for you… Read more |
• YouTube launched “Playables Builder”, where Gemini 3 turns text descriptions, images, or videos into actual playable games that viewers can play right inside your channel. No coding, no game dev skills, just feed it prompts and it generates working mini-games in minutes… Watch |
/ CHATTER /
• Meta is developing two new AI models codenamed Mango and Avocado—Mango will handle visual tasks like image/video generation and recognition (targeting H1 2026), while Avocado focuses on coding. This marks Meta's push into multimodal AI beyond just language models… Read more |
• Unitree's G1 humanoid robots performed synchronized dance routines at a concert, demonstrating coordinated multi-robot movement control. The $16k robots executed choreographed sequences together, showing progress in robot-to-robot coordination for entertainment and industrial applications… Watch |
• Amazon launched "Greetings" for Ring doorbells—an Alexa+ feature where conversational AI chats with visitors when you're not home, answering questions about delivery instructions or taking messages. It's essentially an AI receptionist for your front door… Read more |
• The US Air Force is upgrading its experimental X-62 F-16 (formerly VISTA) with advanced radar and sensors specifically designed to test AI-controlled wingmen. The jet serves as a testbed for autonomous fighter systems that will fly alongside human pilots… Read more |
• Google is testing a 'Lecture' mode in NotebookLM that can generate approximately 30-minute, single-voice audio lectures in various languages… Read more |
• YouTube started mass-deleting channels that use AI to generate fake movie trailers for non-existent films. The crackdown targets channels creating deceptive content that racks up millions of views by promoting fake sequels and crossovers… Read more |
• Google is suing SerpAPI, a scraping company used by ChatGPT, Cursor, and Perplexity… Read more |
• Anthropic ran an experiment giving Claude access to a vending machine to manage… Read more |
• Alibaba's Qwen models can now clone voices from three seconds of audio and generate expressive speech from text, Qwen claims the model achieves a lower error rate than competitors like Elevenlabs or MiniMax… Read more |

