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Rivian wants your hands off the wheel, Meta wants more money for the same goggles, shoppers are generating full-body clones, and databases are now tuning themselves like they’ve developed opinions.
Even OpenAI is speed-patching its way toward “frontier dominance,” whatever that means this quarter. Meanwhile, Port walks in with $100M to tame the agent chaos the industry created in the first place.
In short: everyone’s upgrading everything; whether we asked for it or not.
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Seven bullets of updates
🤖 Rivian plans to enable hands-free driving on over 300,000 miles of US roads, eyeing full autonomy with custom AI chips and lidar in a bid to rival Tesla and Waymo.
🕶️ Meta captured 77% of the global VR market last year and is now planning to hike headset prices.
🧑💻 Shoppers can now use a selfie to instantly create a full-body digital try-on, replacing the old upload-a-body-pic process.
🗃️ AI agents help databases scale dynamically, boosting query speed by up to 50x with automated optimization.
🦾 OpenAI debuts GPT-5.2, touting 20% better reasoning and coding as it rushes to close the gap with Google’s Gemini 3 in the race for frontier AI dominance.
🧑💻 Ghent scale-up lands $7M Series A to accelerate its AI-powered strategic intelligence platform for enterprise growth.
🪙 Taiwan’s tactile payment culture processed over 2B non-cash transactions in 2022, no QR codes needed.
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Port Loads Up $100M to Organize the Developer-AI Stampede
Port just raises $100M Series C at an $800M valuation to bring order to developer AI agents; herding cats, but the cats file tickets.
It’s pitching a proprietary alternative to Backstage: a polished internal-dev control plane that catalogs tools/agents, orchestrates workflows, and enforces standards via a “context lake” and human‑in‑the‑loop approvals. Customers: GitHub, BT, LG.
Why it matters: agent management is crowded (LangChain, UiPath, cloud suites). The winner becomes the operating system of enterprise AI agents; owning governance, extensions, and budget gravity. Watch integrations, openness vs. lock‑in, and TCO proof for platform teams.
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The AI Bubble Looks EXACTLY Like The 1929 Crisis
Are we repeating 1929… or rhyming with it? The Roaring Twenties were fueled by debt, booming tech, speculation, and extreme inequality. Sound familiar?
This episode compares the three core triggers of the Great Depression with the world we’ve built going into 2029: leverage, AI hype, global debt, and a dangerously familiar wealth gap. We look at what’s actually similar, what’s fundamentally different, and whether today’s guardrails (FDIC, SEC, QE, fiat, global markets) are enough to prevent history from looping back with a modern twist.
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Liberate yourself from self-doubt
Studies show 50% of entrepreneurs have anxiety or self-doubt. Are you one of them, struggling behind the scenes? Solve this problem at the root by "unlearning" deep-seated limiting beliefs with an innovative 10-minute method shared by Human Liberation.
A belief like "I'm not good enough" or "I'm not doing enough" can be "deleted," liberating you for good.
With every belief you clear, the more you feel ease, relief, and freedom.
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🧠 Figma's Dylan Field turned weak management into an edge, scaling a $19.45B business from leadership-only chops.
🤖 Collaborative agents can slash 45-day backlogs; follow this 5-step checklist to build ROI-safe systems.
⏱️ Slowdowns aren’t effort, they’re execution leaks; name decision owners to catch the leak early and plug 1 of 5.
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Disney and OpenAI Partnership Sets Precedent for Hollywood AI Collaborations
Photo by Thibault Penin on Unsplash
The détente finally arrives: the studio licenses iconic IP to a video model next year, takes a $1B equity stake, and will run curated Sora shorts on Disney+. The mouse and the model share a trailer.
Why it matters: courts lean toward fair use on training data, but outputs remain enforceable; so cash shifts from lawsuits to licenses, taming the “Snoopy problem.” For builders: expect an IP app store (priced character packs), safety rails in SDKs, and platform distribution for compliant content. Rival studios either cut output deals, or lawyer up.