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Today’s edition is basically a guided tour of tech’s identity crisis.
Robotaxis are multiplying, pharma is suddenly a trillion-dollar AI shop, Google wants you wearing glasses again, and bitcoin miners are moonlighting as data-center landlords. Meanwhile, OpenAI put itself in timeout and Accenture just handed Claude the keys to 300,000 employees.
If 2025 had a motto, it would be: “Everyone pivot… and nobody panic.”
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Ten bullets of updates
🗺️ Drivers can now edit their routes with just a voice command thanks to Grok in Tesla's latest update.
🎬 A $108.4B hostile bid aims to block Netflix’s $82.7B Warner Bros. takeover, sparking a Hollywood mega-merger standoff.
💊 Pharma giant hits $1T valuation and partners with Nvidia to build an AI supercomputer for drug discovery , redefining its tech ambitions.
🚗 Waymo’s robotaxi rides jumped to 700,000+ in six months as it rapidly scales paid service in the US.
🤖 OpenAI puts all side projects on pause for 8 weeks to boost ChatGPT with real user feedback and prep new model launches.
🔥 Boom lands $300M to launch Superpower and deliver a fleet of natural gas turbines to CrusoeAI.
💰️ Researchers say economic impact reports on AI's effect on up to 80% of jobs are getting less visibility at OpenAI.
🤝 300,000 employees at Accenture will soon tap Anthropic’s AI tools through a new long-term partnership.
🕶️ Next year, users can try Google’s AI-powered smart glasses; set to rival Meta and hit shelves in 2026.
🖥️ Generative AI is pushing startups to rethink product value, exposing weak propositions and reshaping market expectations.
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AI Startup Funding Rounds for Enterprise App Development Platforms
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Empromptu nabbed raises $2M pre-seed to turn prompts into enterprise apps. Users can tell it what you want—“build a classification app,” say—and it scaffolds code, adds eval/governance, and slots into existing repos, aiming to turn ideas into production beyond “vibe coding.”
Round led by Precursor Ventures with Zeal Capital, Alumni Ventures, Founders Edge, and South Loop. Co-founders: Sheena Leven (ex-CodeSee, acquired 2024) and AI researcher Sean Robinson. Target customers are regulated or complex ops; funds go to hiring and proprietary tech.
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The Dangerous Success of GPT Therapy
🧩 Chatbots Cure Depression, but there’s a catch. AI is proving shockingly effective at treating anxiety and depression.
Real studies show measurable results. But there’s a darker side; privacy breaches, dependency, and the risk of replacing real connection with code. This episode breaks down what AI therapy gets right, what it dangerously gets wrong, and why millions are doing it anyway.
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Bitcoin Miners Refocus Data Centers for AI Amid Profit Challenges
Industrial bitcoin miners are turning mining halls into AI factories as post‑halving margins shrink, shifting from hashes to transformers by repurposing power‑dense sites, cooling, and 24/7 ops for GPU clusters.
Why it works: they already control scarce grid interconnects, substation capacity, and cheap PPAs; exactly what AI workloads crave. Hosting or managed HPC can out‑earn mining when BTC economics wobble, and contract revenue is less volatile.
Stakes: miners could re‑rate to data‑center multiples but must fund capex (GPUs, liquid cooling, fiber) and navigate curtailment and community heat. AI tenants get faster time‑to‑compute but inherit grid constraints. If prices or policy swing, expect rapid toggling between mining and hosting.
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