OpenAI Microsoft tensions 🤖, WhatsApp ads 💬, coding agents 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-17 📱Big Tech & Startups OpenAI and Microsoft Tensions Are Reaching a Boiling Point OpenAI wants to loosen Microsoft's grip on its products and computing resources and secure approval for its

Gemini expands ✨, xAI burns $1B/month 💰, Redis 8 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-18 📱Big Tech & Startups Google's Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite Google has expanded its Gemini AI model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has left preview and Gemini 2.5 Pro

Netflix adds TV 📺, AWS vs Nvidia ⚡, Waymo in NYC 🚗 TLDR 2025-06-19 📱Big Tech & Startups Netflix Really Is TV Now Netflix has signed a deal with French TV network TF1 to show linear TV. France's largest commercial broadcaster, TF1 will show all five of its linear channels

Meta's offer to Ilya 💰, HIV drug approved 💉, improving kubernetes 🧑‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-20 📱Big Tech & Startups Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the

Tesla Robotaxi launch 🚕, Apple eyes Perplexity 💰, tech's tiny team era 📈 TLDR 2025-06-23 📱Big Tech & Startups Tesla Begins Limited Robotaxi Service in Austin Tesla began limited operations of its self-driving taxi service yesterday in Austin, Texas. The service is only

Zuckerberg AI recruiting 🤖, OpenAI device details 🎧, Python + Mojo 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-24 📱Big Tech & Startups Zuckerberg Leads AI Recruitment Blitz Armed With $100 Million Pay Packages Mark Zuckerberg has personally reached out to hundreds of researchers, scientists,

Amazon + Anthropic datacenter ⚡, OpenAI's Office competitor 📝, AI tops HackerOne 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-25 📱Big Tech & Startups At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for AI Amazon's Project Rainier involves building data centers so large they would have been

Claude apps 🤖, Gemini CLI 👨‍💻, DeepMind tackles Navier Stokes 🌊 TLDR 2025-06-26 📱Big Tech & Startups Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot Anthropic has added a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets users build AI-powered apps right

Uber x Travis Kalanick 🚗, YouTube AI 📺, writing to RAM 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-06-27 📱Big Tech & Startups Uber in Talks With Its Founder, Travis Kalanick, to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick, the company's co-founder, to help fund his acquisition of the

Zuckerberg's list 📝, Tesla's driverless delivery 🚗, synthetic human genome 🧬 TLDR 2025-06-30 📱Big Tech & Startups It's Known as ‘The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses Mark Zuckerberg has spent months putting together a list of the most talented engineers and

Meta Superintelligence Labs 🤖, Apple Vision Air 🥽, OpenAI's week off 🏖 TLDR 2025-07-01 📱Big Tech & Startups Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo Meta Superintelligence Labs will house Meta's various teams working on foundation

xAI raises $10B 💰, OpenAI's leaked memo 📝, context window architecture 🧑‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-02 📱Big Tech & Startups Elon Musk's xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI xAI has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity through secured

Foldable iPhone prototype 📱, Palmer Luckey launches bank 🏦, continuous AI 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-03 📱Big Tech & Startups iPhone Fold reportedly on track for potential launch next year, as prototypes tested The iPhone Fold is on schedule for a potential launch in the second half

Apple's AWS competitor 💻, Meta poaches SSI CEO 💰, Samsung's trifold phone 📱 TLSR 2025-07-04 📱Big Tech & Startups Apple looked into building its own AWS competitor Apple's Project ACDC (Apple Chips in Data Centers) would have provided developer cloud services running on

TikTok nears deal 📱, Tesla Oasis Supercharger ⚡, LLM dev reality check 🧑‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-07 📱Big Tech & Startups TikTok's ‘ban' problem could end soon with a new app and a sale The Trump administration says it's close to an agreement for a TikTok sale that satisfies the

Alphabet's AI drug trials 💊, Jack Dorsey's WhatsApp competitor 💬, copyleft vs permissive licenses 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-08 📱Big Tech & Startups Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs has grand ambitions to ‘solve all diseases' with AI. Now, it's gearing up for its first human trials

Samsung Galaxy leaks 📱, Meta's $3.5B Ray-Ban bet 👓, AI impacts dev hiring 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-09 📱Big Tech & Startups Samsung's event spoiled by massive last-minute leak A reliable leaker has shared a whole bunch of marketing materials for Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event

X CEO resigns 💼, Grok 4 🤖, Nvidia hits $4T 💰 TLDR 2025-07-10 📱Big Tech & Startups xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 - and the results are in According to new benchmark tests, Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. Grok 4 is a reasoning model that costs $3 per million input

Foldable iPhone production 📱, Tesla Robotaxi expands 🚕, AI dev at Google 🧑‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-11 📱Big Tech & Startups Foldable iPhone Display Production Begins Ahead of Launch Next Year Apple's first foldable iPhone OLED displays have begun production ahead of an expected

Google acquires Windsurf 💰, SpaceX funds xAI 🤖, vibe coding interviews 👨‍💻 TLDR 2025-07-14 📱Big Tech & Startups Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal Google has signed an agreement to hire Varum Mohan, the co-founder of AI coding