OpenAI announced that its acquisition of Jony Ive’s, io, has closed, with Ive and his LoveFrom team staying independent but embedded in OpenAI’s design direction The company is also said to be working on an agentic browser to take on Chrome and Perplexity
STARTUPS
-
30 Years of AI Research Continues Through Answer.ai
By
–
I've been working for the last 30 years on a single theme really, with various windings diversions along the way. But it hasn't changed too much, and I think we now have a vehicle (
@answerdotai
) for continuing on it for another 30. -
Custom RL as Service: The New $500M Startup Opportunity
By
–
i think this is comparatively slept on the Current Thing if you depart from OAI (eg TML?) you are doing "we are extremely cracked and we will do custom RL for you!" as a service. 3 dudes in a basement immediately worth $500m. so it's notable when a former OAI RL person says https://
x.com/_kevinlu/statu
/_kevinlu/status/1942977315031687460
… -
HyperWrite Success: Josh’s Key Contributions Confirmed
By
–
Can confirm. I would say the bet worked out! HyperWrite wouldn't be HyperWrite without Josh's contributions 🙂
-
Google misses Perplexity integration opportunity in Comet browser
By
–
Google has blown its chance to become part of the Perplexity universe. Next time I open my Comet browser, I expect to get a perple calendar and a perpmail account
-
The Hidden Premium of Entrepreneurship and Personal Freedom
By
–
The Hidden Premium of Entrepreneurship After becoming an entrepreneur, one thing hit me with absolute clarity: there’s a hidden premium we rarely factor into traditional job – the freedom to do things you actually care about, on your own time. In a job, you’re often caught in
-
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Launch Reachy Mini Robot
By
–
https://t.co/6gS2xMTwQQ pic.twitter.com/9SxQKhrE2j
— abhishek (@abhi1thakur) 9 juillet 2025Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at @huggingface @pollenrobotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge
-
AI Driving Golden Age of Entrepreneurship and Economic Transformation
By
–
Agreed. AI may force society (and the economy) into the golden age of entrepreneurship.
-
$10B Raised for FRAUDS Superintelligence Project
By
–
Happy to report I’ve already raised $10B for my Friendly Reasoning Agentic Universal Deep Superintelligence (FRAUDS).
-
LangChain Sponsors AgentForce Hackathon in Dublin with Think Tank Winner
By
–
We had a great time partnering with @AITinkerers Dublin for their AgentForce Hackathon, sponsored by LangChain! The winner was Aldan Creo who built Think Tank, an agent built with LangGraph that adapts to your voice. Shoutout to AI Tinkerers Dublin city organizer