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Not everything Tesla ships has wheels. Three new lifestyle items just went up in the Tesla Shop: an Essential Backpack at $120, a Mini Essential Backpack at $80, and a Performance Umbrella at $95. Prices checked on Tesla's own store. #Tesla
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Wall Street is getting uneasy about how Meta pays for AI. Per WSJ, the AI build-out has tech giants hunting for ever-larger sums of cash, and investors are raising "a bright red flag". It follows Meta's Q3 plan to create a new share class to fund the spending. #Meta
The vast amount of capital needed to fund the artificial-intelligence build-out is forcing tech giants to hunt for ever-larger sums of cash—and Wall Street is raising a bright red flag on.wsj.com/4ss2MQA
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Demis Hassabis made WSJ's Innovators Issue. The profile's frame is his lifelong plan: solve intelligence, then solve everything else. His reaction today: he's confident frontier-model risks can be navigated, opening "a new golden age of scientific discovery". #DeepMind
Honoured to be featured in the @WSJ Innovators Issue. I’ve always believed in the power of human ingenuity to solve our hardest problems. I’m confident we can collectively navigate the potential challenges of frontier models and usher in a new golden age of scientific discovery!
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Anthropic's S-1 could go public as soon as tomorrow. Yahoo Finance, citing people familiar, reports the company plans to publicly file for its IPO as early as Friday. Unconfirmed by Anthropic; the draft filing has been circulating since last week. #Anthropic #IPO
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Yahoo Finance's report (sources; Anthropic hasn't confirmed): finance.yahoo.com/news/anthr…
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The number is $1.25 trillion. CNBC reports OpenAI is raising up to $30B at that valuation (pre-money), led by UAE investors alongside Coatue, signatures due by end of next week. Framed as a bridge to an IPO that CFO Sarah Friar has told staff will likely come in 2027. #OpenAI
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Claude is flipping the default. From next week, sessions on web, desktop and mobile run in auto mode for Pro, Max and Team: no approving every step, an automated check blocks risky actions and the rest just happens. Manual is one toggle away, per Anthropic. #Claude #Anthropic
Starting next week, sessions across Claude web, desktop, and mobile apps will run in auto mode by default on Pro, Max, and Team plans. Rather than asking you to approve each step, an automated check blocks risky actions. Switch back to manual anytime.
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Spotify confirmed the Family Plan crackdown on its Q3 call, calling it "a routine improvement", per TechCrunch. Members get a notification and 7 days to scan a QR code on the plan manager's phone. Miss it: moved to an individual plan, no Family or Duo for 12 months. #Spotify
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Ideogram launched Vector 1.0, its first vector model: editable SVGs from a prompt, or any image turned into a scalable vector. API price per SVG: $0.13–$0.20 from text ($0.32 high quality + references), $0.10 from an image. Also live on fal. #Ideogram #fal #AIDesign
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Small but useful: Gemini can now look at your Google Maps searches and saved places together with your Calendar and suggest what to do with your day. Opt-in, per Google's own post. 🎬 #Gemini #GoogleMaps
With your permission, Gemini can now reference your @GoogleMaps searches and saved places alongside your Google Calendar to give you tailored recommendations for your day. 📍

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Canva built its own image model. Canva Craft plans the layout first (spatial relationships, hierarchy, where text goes), then renders up to 2K in 30 aspect ratios, per TechCrunch. Trained on designed templates, not photos; outputs become editable layers. #Canva #CanvaCraft
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OpenAI's Decisions API is out of beta. It's the cheap, fast path: classify text or images, score an input, pick the next step, no full model response. New since beta: native GPT-Live hooks so voice apps react mid-sentence, prompt caching, JSON inputs. 🎬 #OpenAI #DecisionsAPI
Add near real-time decisions to your workflow with the Decisions API, now generally available. Build faster, more cost-efficient apps and agents that can classify text and images, evaluate inputs, and determine what happens next without generating a full model response.
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The Switch 2 appears to be jailbroken. Per The Verge, modder "pepsipu" says OpenAI's Codex helped build ns2jb, a software-only, tethered exploit launched from the game SmileBASIC 4 on each boot. Mario Kart World already runs with Peter Griffin as a driver. #Switch2 #Nintendo
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Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle Plus. Same $11.99 a month, same 20-title limit, still separate from Prime. New: thousands of audiobooks at no extra cost, including "virtual voice" titles read by AI narrators, per The Verge. KDP authors can opt in. #Kindle #Amazon
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