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Week 17

Apr 20 - 26
Cook And Ternus Hold Apple Town Hall Amid Leadership Shift

Cook And Ternus Hold Apple Town Hall Amid Leadership Shift

Sam Altman and gdb to Announce AGI Date on Podcast

Sam Altman and gdb to Announce AGI Date on Podcast

A16z-Backed MTS Live Challenges Old Media With "Always On" News

A16z-Backed MTS Live Challenges Old Media With "Always On" News

FarzaTV Launches Clicky, A New Simple AI Tool For Mac Users

FarzaTV Launches Clicky, A New Simple AI Tool For Mac Users

IShowSpeed Parody Account Expresses Strong Anger

IShowSpeed Parody Account Expresses Strong Anger

Garry Tan's GStack Turns Claude Code Into an Entire AI Team

Garry Tan's GStack Turns Claude Code Into an Entire AI Team

Why Cluely CEO Roy Lee Is Mad About Inaction

Why Cluely CEO Roy Lee Is Mad About Inaction

A Robotaxi Rollout Looks Like It Is Coming Soon

A Robotaxi Rollout Looks Like It Is Coming Soon

Apple Park White Smoke Could Mean New Top Boss

Apple Park White Smoke Could Mean New Top Boss

Cory Reports MIT Students Played Tetris on a Building at Midnight

Cory Reports MIT Students Played Tetris on a Building at Midnight

Feeling Old? Gramps in the Club Makes Everyone Relate

Feeling Old? Gramps in the Club Makes Everyone Relate

Nicole Hsing Shares Life Update: Married And Gay

Nicole Hsing Shares Life Update: Married And Gay

Naval Ravikant Unveils New AngelList Fund USVC for Investors

Naval Ravikant Unveils New AngelList Fund USVC for Investors

Paco Villetard's New Lab Aims To Protect The West Online

Paco Villetard's New Lab Aims To Protect The West Online

You Can Soon Get a Robot For Under $1,000 From Antonio Sitong Li

You Can Soon Get a Robot For Under $1,000 From Antonio Sitong Li

IRL Connection Economy Is Booming, Tinder Bets Big on In-Person Meetups

IRL Connection Economy Is Booming, Tinder Bets Big on In-Person Meetups

Elon Musk Releases New Grok Imagine Model With Better Lip Sync

Elon Musk Releases New Grok Imagine Model With Better Lip Sync

Thiel Fellowship Welcomes New Fellows, Including Victor Boyd of Cavalla

Thiel Fellowship Welcomes New Fellows, Including Victor Boyd of Cavalla

SpaceX AI And Cursor AI Join To Build Top Coding AI

SpaceX AI And Cursor AI Join To Build Top Coding AI

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.5 For Complex Tasks And Agent Power

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.5 For Complex Tasks And Agent Power

Say Goodbye to HTML? Zan2434's Team Built a New Way.

Say Goodbye to HTML? Zan2434's Team Built a New Way.

Ocean Startup Ulysses Inc. Gets Featured on S3 for Its Underwater Tech

Ocean Startup Ulysses Inc. Gets Featured on S3 for Its Underwater Tech

Ben Horwitz Made AI That Messes Up Your Emails on Purpose

Ben Horwitz Made AI That Messes Up Your Emails on Purpose

Aaron Tan Hosts Largest Lume Robot Showing in Palo Alto

Aaron Tan Hosts Largest Lume Robot Showing in Palo Alto

Shuyu Zhang Reveals QClaw, 99% AI-Written in Just Five Days

Shuyu Zhang Reveals QClaw, 99% AI-Written in Just Five Days

Fabian Stelzer Launches Glif V2, an AI That Made Its Own Videos

Fabian Stelzer Launches Glif V2, an AI That Made Its Own Videos

Oro Launches a Global AI Agent Competition on Bittensor

Oro Launches a Global AI Agent Competition on Bittensor

Neuralink Works to Give People Back Their Movement Using Brain Control

Neuralink Works to Give People Back Their Movement Using Brain Control

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is a Big Jump in AI Art

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is a Big Jump in AI Art

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Thinks Software Is Solved, Starts Hardware Company

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Thinks Software Is Solved, Starts Hardware Company

Odyssey ML Wants to Move Beyond Language Models With New Tech

Odyssey ML Wants to Move Beyond Language Models With New Tech

X has the best information on the internet and the worst incentives & culture.

X has the best information on the internet and the worst incentives & culture.

Bringing AI Agents to Your Favorite Chat Apps Just Got Easier

Bringing AI Agents to Your Favorite Chat Apps Just Got Easier

JazLabs CEO David Feldt Reminds Everyone You Can Just Build

JazLabs CEO David Feldt Reminds Everyone You Can Just Build

NeoCognition Gets $40M to Make Everyone an AI Expert

NeoCognition Gets $40M to Make Everyone an AI Expert

Big_schmitz Drops Sidekick After Three Weeks Making AI Just Work

Big_schmitz Drops Sidekick After Three Weeks Making AI Just Work

Vitalii Dodonov Unleashes AI Ghostwriter to Pump Up Your 𝕏 Follower Count

Vitalii Dodonov Unleashes AI Ghostwriter to Pump Up Your 𝕏 Follower Count

Michelle Lee Opens America's Largest Robot-Run Lab

Michelle Lee Opens America's Largest Robot-Run Lab

Liam Fedus Says Industrial-Scale Science Is Coming This Summer

Liam Fedus Says Industrial-Scale Science Is Coming This Summer

Tanay Kothari Launches Wispr Flow in India After Personal Test

Tanay Kothari Launches Wispr Flow in India After Personal Test

Kate Deyneka Launches Reelful App, Makes Short Videos Fast

Kate Deyneka Launches Reelful App, Makes Short Videos Fast

Your Next Coffee Shop Worker Might Be An AI In Sweden

Your Next Coffee Shop Worker Might Be An AI In Sweden

Finn Mallery Announces Origami AI to Find New Customers

Finn Mallery Announces Origami AI to Find New Customers

Waste Trucks Are Getting Smarter with AI Scheduling from Dayjob

Waste Trucks Are Getting Smarter with AI Scheduling from Dayjob

Zion Darko Unveils Onairos to Fight Corporate Data Theft

Zion Darko Unveils Onairos to Fight Corporate Data Theft

New Tool Autosana Means Less Waiting For Your Favorite Apps

New Tool Autosana Means Less Waiting For Your Favorite Apps

Jan Schnyder Introduces William, An AI Agent With A Phone

Jan Schnyder Introduces William, An AI Agent With A Phone

A1Zap Bets Big On AI As The Next Social Frontier

A1Zap Bets Big On AI As The Next Social Frontier

Microsoft Was Filming Life In '95, Now Looki AI Is At Scoble's Door

Microsoft Was Filming Life In '95, Now Looki AI Is At Scoble's Door

Somebody gave us 250k to build an underwear company.

Somebody gave us 250k to build an underwear company.

Finally, Your Digital Assistants Can Have Their Own Credit Card

Finally, Your Digital Assistants Can Have Their Own Credit Card

14-Year-Old Founder Gets YC Logo Takedown, Wins AI Contest

14-Year-Old Founder Gets YC Logo Takedown, Wins AI Contest

Forget Email Clutter, Naveen Gavini's Extra App Aims to Organize Your Life

Forget Email Clutter, Naveen Gavini's Extra App Aims to Organize Your Life

EraWorld Claims "New Era," But What Does That Even Mean?

EraWorld Claims "New Era," But What Does That Even Mean?

Week 16

Apr 13 - 19
Dwarkesh Patel Podcast Features Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast Features Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Hardware Is Still Hard, But Schematik Just Got $4.6 Million To Fix It

Hardware Is Still Hard, But Schematik Just Got $4.6 Million To Fix It

Garry Tan Records Podcast Episode With Music Producer Rick Rubin

Garry Tan Records Podcast Episode With Music Producer Rick Rubin

Bryan Johnson Adds "No Sex" To His Wild Longevity Experiments

Bryan Johnson Adds "No Sex" To His Wild Longevity Experiments

Zohran Mamdani Sends a Clear Message on Tax Day: "We're Taxing the Rich"

Zohran Mamdani Sends a Clear Message on Tax Day: "We're Taxing the Rich"

Trump Reveals Friend Was Neurotic and Begged Him to Stay Quiet

Trump Reveals Friend Was Neurotic and Begged Him to Stay Quiet

OpenClaw Creator's TEDTalks Presentation Is a Huge Hit

OpenClaw Creator's TEDTalks Presentation Is a Huge Hit

Your Marketing Boss Needs to Be an "Asian Baby Girl" to Succeed

Your Marketing Boss Needs to Be an "Asian Baby Girl" to Succeed

Allbirds Pivots to AI, Renames Itself NewBird AI

Allbirds Pivots to AI, Renames Itself NewBird AI

Humanoid Robot Ran Record Half Marathon, Couldn't Stick The Landing

Humanoid Robot Ran Record Half Marathon, Couldn't Stick The Landing

Jeff Bezos Shares Video Of Blue Origin Rocket Landing, Satellite Lost

Jeff Bezos Shares Video Of Blue Origin Rocket Landing, Satellite Lost

Your iPhone Home Screen Could Finally Understand You

Your iPhone Home Screen Could Finally Understand You

How AI Could Change Your Family Life, According to Jesse Genet

How AI Could Change Your Family Life, According to Jesse Genet

Rahul Chhabra's Sabi Builds Beanie for Brain Control, Backed by Big Names

Rahul Chhabra's Sabi Builds Beanie for Brain Control, Backed by Big Names

Elon Musk Just Posts 'Lmaooo'

Elon Musk Just Posts 'Lmaooo'

Legora CEO Says Jude Law Makes Law More Appealing, Seriously

Legora CEO Says Jude Law Makes Law More Appealing, Seriously

Josh Constine Praises Fintech Company and Podcaster for Game Night

Josh Constine Praises Fintech Company and Podcaster for Game Night

Atom Finally Shows Its Hand After Eight Years Of Secrecy

Atom Finally Shows Its Hand After Eight Years Of Secrecy

Nik Shevchenko Launches Omi Desktop AI as a Life Architect

Nik Shevchenko Launches Omi Desktop AI as a Life Architect

DJ Diplo: Still Thinking About AI While Most Creatives Are Asleep

DJ Diplo: Still Thinking About AI While Most Creatives Are Asleep

Getting Into Y Combinator Startup School Now Comes With a Ticket

Getting Into Y Combinator Startup School Now Comes With a Ticket

RazberryChai Built a Free Menubar App for Markdown Notes

RazberryChai Built a Free Menubar App for Markdown Notes

Elon Musk Book.

Elon Musk Book.

Frontier Tower Opens Superhero Hotel for San Francisco Founders

Frontier Tower Opens Superhero Hotel for San Francisco Founders

17-Year-Old Alex Mathew's Viral Plushie Might Be Cooler Than Your AI

17-Year-Old Alex Mathew's Viral Plushie Might Be Cooler Than Your AI

Finally, Your Smart Bulbs Can Have a Better Music Taste Than You Thanks to Aura

Finally, Your Smart Bulbs Can Have a Better Music Taste Than You Thanks to Aura

Another Startup Says It Will Make Friends For Everyone With Big Money

Another Startup Says It Will Make Friends For Everyone With Big Money

Claude AI's New Design Tool Will Make Some Designers Sweat

Claude AI's New Design Tool Will Make Some Designers Sweat

Julian Alvarez Wants You to Chat With AI About Saved Videos

Julian Alvarez Wants You to Chat With AI About Saved Videos

AI Agents Are Quietly Failing, Jerry Zhang Reveals New Fix

AI Agents Are Quietly Failing, Jerry Zhang Reveals New Fix

New Tool Ploid Makes Finding Anyone Online Super Easy

New Tool Ploid Makes Finding Anyone Online Super Easy

Daredevildave Launches AutoAICam, a Camera That Builds Personal Apps

Daredevildave Launches AutoAICam, a Camera That Builds Personal Apps

Everyone Showed Up to the a16z Speedrun SR006 Demo Day

Everyone Showed Up to the a16z Speedrun SR006 Demo Day

Kernel Grants, a new program investing a very precise $271,828.

Kernel Grants, a new program investing a very precise $271,828.

Get Ready to Get Paid to Talk to Robots From Humwork

Get Ready to Get Paid to Talk to Robots From Humwork

Auctor AI Gets $20 Million From Sequoia To Change Software Deployment

Auctor AI Gets $20 Million From Sequoia To Change Software Deployment

Zach Schmitz Launches Sidekick Keyboard With a "Greatest Launch Video"

Zach Schmitz Launches Sidekick Keyboard With a "Greatest Launch Video"

More Perfect Union Claims Waymo Threatens 2 Million Jobs and Driver Wages

More Perfect Union Claims Waymo Threatens 2 Million Jobs and Driver Wages