Breaking: Klarna opens at $52 per share in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above range (!)
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Motia: Unified Backend Framework for AI Agents
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Finally, a unified backend framework to build and scale AI Agents! Motia is a backend framework that brings together AI Agents, APIs, background jobs, streams and workflows into a single core primitive. 100% Open Source
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Cloud 100: AI Drives $1 Trillion Valuation Milestone
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Forbes has published its Cloud 100 Report 2025 – for the first time, the total valuation of the 100 leading private cloud companies exceeds $1 trillion. And AI is the major driver: around 42% of this total value can be attributed to companies whose core business is artificial
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AI Wearables, Microsoft-Claude Partnership, and Claude Updates
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Top stories in AI today: – Alterego’s “near-telepathic” AI wearable
– Microsoft eyes Claude for Office 365
– Create mini product photos with Nano Banana
– Claude gains file creation capabilities
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Unitree Robotics Files IPO at $7 Billion Valuation
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Unitree Robotics va déposer son IPO avec une valorisation de 7 milliards de dollars (Rentrée en bourse) -> revenu annuel ~140 millions
-> 65 % provenant des chiens robots (70 % de part de marché mondiale)
-> 30 % provenant des robots humanoïdes
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Startups overhyping benchmark wins through expensive inference tricks
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> oh wow! you, a scrappy lil startup just announced that you beat {WELL KNOWN BIGLAB THING} on {BENCHMARK}! > thats awesome!! how did you do it! > oh its open source?? wow let me look > spent 5x more inference running “multiagents” and hyper tuned prompts every fucking time
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Create Winning Pitch Deck for Your Tech Idea
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"create the pitch deck for this idea, make it really good" One prompt to this PPT. Still quite basic, but the contents are pretty good.
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Agno AGI Team Celebrates Progress Shipping New Features
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Amazing progress. Congratulations Ashpreet and @AgnoAgi team!!! Time to build and ship more stuff
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Alexander Wang’s Meta AI Leadership After Scale Acquisition
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Alexander Wang, born January '97 >Co-founded Scale AI in 2016
>Sold Scale AI to Meta for $14 Billions
>Becomes Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs
>Data from Scale AI is low quality
>Researchers complain
>LMAO Ranked #1 in the Times Top Grifters of All Time -
Business Model Feedback: Marketing vs Instructor Investment Strategy
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If I were giving feedback, I think I would say that I think I would take a different tack to the business model (less money on instructors initially, more spend on marketing), but there are no technical issues I have spotted, more a difference of opinion over a vague prompt.