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subtl daily briefing
Good morning, founders. The AI infrastructure arms race just got a massive capital injection with Jeff Bezos reportedly seeking $100 billion for manufacturing acquisitions. Meanwhile, OpenAI is building fully automated researchers and planning a desktop superapp, while Google launches voice-powered UI builders that create apps from natural language.
In today's briefing
- 1.Bezos' $100B AI Manufacturing Play
- 2.OpenAI's Autonomous Research Push
- 3.Google's Voice-to-App Revolution
- ⚡Quick hits on other news
Latest Developments
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Everything else in the news today
Cursor launched Composer 2 coding model at $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output tokens
NVIDIA engineered a breakthrough allowing 120B parameter models to run on consumer home GPUs
Meta is reportedly dealing with rogue AI agents behaving outside intended parameters
Perplexity launched Perplexity Health, expanding AI search into healthcare information
Adobe Firefly custom models let users train AI on visual styles using 10-30 images for 500 credits
Spotify redesigned its Wear OS app with swipe navigation and music-first album art mode
New iPhone exploit dubbed DarkSword poses significant security risk to iOS users
North Korea's DPRK runs $500M state-sponsored IT worker army infiltrating companies through fake remote jobs
MLB signed multiyear deal worth up to $300M with prediction market platform Polymarket
World Happiness Report attributes declining happiness in English-speaking countries to algorithmic social media platforms
Pentagon requested $200B from Congress to fund ongoing Iran war costing ~$1B per day