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This week’s tech headlines spanned continents and extremes: China pressed Nvidia on antitrust, Washington’s “Big Beautiful Bill” reshaped corporate tax breaks, and TikTok dodged yet another ban. Meanwhile, AI promised everything from digital immortality to humanoid robots, reminding us that the line between science fiction and reality is getting thinner by the day.
And our classic video pick, Cursed Startups: The Deadliest Companies in History
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🇨🇳 China rules Nvidia violated antitrust laws in $7B Mellanox deal, adding tension to U.S.-China semiconductor talks.
📱 The U.S. and China reach a framework deal for TikTok, averting the app's fourth ban deadline on September 17.
🏦 Growth-hungry companies can slash up to $10k in taxes by switching to a C-corp under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
📈 OpenAI's Bret Taylor says we're in an AI bubble, likening it to the '90s dot-com era, yet sees future economic value.
🪦 AI and VR enable digital immortality, letting avatars and clones shape buying decisions posthumously
📚 AI can now turn your book idea into a draft in just 7 hours, with top models collaborating to shape your story.
🤖 More than 200 contractors were laid off in the latest clash over pay and working conditions at Google AI .
🤖 Elon Musk's xAI lays off 500 workers from its data annotation team, shifting focus to specialist AI tutors.
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AI market valuation and bubble concerns highlighted by tech analysts
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Veteran analyst Henry Blodget is waving a red flag, warning that we could be speeding towards an AI-fueled dot-com déjà vu. He points to sky-high valuations, FOMO-driven funding rounds, and ambitious startups scrambling to sprinkle "AI" everywhere—even if their actual product is a PowerPoint masquerading as software.
If history is any guide, a hype hangover could thin the herd, with only the few that actually solve real problems left standing. Remember 2000? Pets.com didn’t make it, but Amazon did. This isn’t just a Blodget monologue: analysts from every major bank are issuing caution tape around frothy valuations and vaporware platforms. The smart money is looking for actual business models, not just large-language-models.
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Cursed Startups: The Deadliest Companies in History
Startups can be dangerous—sometimes deadly. In this video, we explore six of the deadliest startup inventions in history, where founders and innovators paid the ultimate price for their creations. From the AVE Mizar, a car-plane hybrid named after a star, to the ill-fated Oceangate submersible, the Segway, and even the Titanic, we dive into the tragic stories of ambition gone wrong.
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OpenAI accelerates robotics research and humanoid algorithm development
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OpenAI is assembling a team to develop algorithms for wrangling humanoid robots, scooping up roboticists with hands-on experience. The move is less "I, Robot" nightmare fuel and more a logical leap as generative AI creeps into the physical world.
With billions in AI research already flowing into chatbots, the race to merge brains with muscle is officially on. Startups in robotics—think Figure, 1X, and Agility—are suddenly looking over their shoulders, as Silicon Valley’s biggest LLM players add robots to their to-do lists.
Those betting that general intelligence won’t just live behind a screen should see OpenAI’s humanoid push as a shot across the bow. If robotics is finally shedding its “perpetual pilot” status, expect competition to heat up on both technical breakthroughs and ethics debates, with plenty at stake for investors, users, and hardware partners eyeing the “AGI Olympics.”