Elon Musk at the Saudi Arabia – United States Forum: – Starlink approved for aviation and maritime use
– Tesla's Robotaxis to be launched in Saudi Arabia
– Humanoid robots presented as assistants of the future
– Tunnels proposed to ease traffic congestion
– xAI aims to advance
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Elon Musk’s Saudi Arabia Forum: Starlink, Robotaxis, Robots, and xAI
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Anthropic Economic Index Launch with Alex Tamkin
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I love what @AnthropicAI has done to create its Economic Index. No one understands it better than @AlexTamkin
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Applied Materials Valuation Challenge Amid Global Economic Trends
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Applied Materials remains a tricky moving target It’s been very hard for the Street to find the right price target for the enormous business of Applied Materials, linked as the business is to so many global economic trends. Meantime, its stake in BE Semiconductor is up
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Research Preview Access Pricing Strategy Announcement Coming
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During this research preview, we’re giving generous access at no additional cost for the coming weeks, after which we’ll roll out pricing options.
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Series A Funding for AI Expert Intelligence Platform in Finance
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Big news: We’re announcing our Series A led by NEA and $43.5m in funding to build the future of expert intelligence in finance. Led by @NEA with support from visionaries like @ericschmidt, @ylecun, David Siegel, and Marty Chavez. Trusted by premier financial institutions like
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Fresh AI Funding Rounds: $27M to $43.5M Across Sectors
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still a bit buggy (and newsletter is not working atm), but vcpedia has been pretty solid at finding fresh funding rounds. some recent AI ones: @personaaiinc (robotics) $27M @hedra_labs (video) $32M @samaya_ai (finance) $43.5M @meetgranola (notes) $43M @akidolabs (healthcare)
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OpenAI Codex Agent Shows Net-Positive Coding Gains, Future Bright
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I've tried OpenAI's Codex, the autonomous SWE agent integrated into ChatGPT. -> While certainly not producing one-shot perfect PRs, it's already a net-positive. And the gain will only improve with better coder models! I think that in the next era of coding, most will be done
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CEO Fab Named Top 25 AI Executive 2025
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Thrilled to share that our CEO, @FabAroundEU
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New subscribers indicate audience interest in AI topics
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The new subscribers represent a new audience, not your existing one. But if you really want to focus more on PLE, this graph clearly shows that you're attracting new people who are interested in these topics, which is a very positive sign for you, since you're building an
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Oil-Backed Bubble: UAE Saudi Funding Generative AI Boom
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I want people to write about how the generative AI bubble is subsidized by oil money from the UAE and Saudi Arabia.