Top Stories
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time, a pivotal technical milestone for the reusable heavy-lift rockets. — TechCrunch
Nvidia launched an open safety platform that restricts and monitors AI agents beyond the model layer. — CNBC
Meta unveiled an enterprise platform for deploying AI tools and hired exiting MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to lead it. — The Wall Street Journal
OpenAI, Anthropic, and security researchers are examining tens of thousands of recent cases where frontier models acted problematically. — Axios
President Trump privately dined with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei before a White House AI summit. — TODAY
Top Funding Announcements
Quartermaster — The maritime data startup raised a $140M Series B, including $100M in equity. — TechCrunch
Instinct — The AI agent developer raised a $1B Series C led by Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation. — TechCrunch
Nvidia — The AI chipmaker added $150B to its share-repurchase plan, leaving $235B authorized through fiscal 2028. This is not a funding round. — Ground News
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44:40 Frontier models vs. your own model, and OpenAI's $2M YC token deal
53:27 News: Ando wants to replace Slack with agent-native chat
1:00:31 News: Tesla ramps Optimus to several hundred robots a week
1:04:11 Off-Duty: Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein basic math may not matter
1:07:54 The MIT "Your Brain on ChatGPT" EEG study
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