SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that
could raise significantly more than $30 billion, targeting a valuation
of
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SPACEX TO PURSUE 2026 IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION (5 MINUTE
READ) [6]

SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that
could raise significantly more than $30 billion. It is targeting a
valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company. SpaceX's
management and advisors are pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late
2026. The company is expected to produce about $15 billion in revenue
in 2025, increasing to up to $24 billion in 2026.

FROM LLAMAS TO AVOCADOS: META'S SHIFTING AI STRATEGY IS CAUSING
INTERNAL CONFUSION (16 MINUTE READ) [7]

Meta is currently pursuing a Llama successor codenamed Avocado. The
model is expected to be released before the end of this year. Meta
seems to have shifted from its open source stance - Avocado could be a proprietary model. Some people at Meta were reportedly upset that
DeepSeek used pieces of Llama's architecture in its R1 model, so the
company decided to overhaul its strategy.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

A NEW PRODUCT, A NEW CUSTOMER, A NEW FINANCING! (3 MINUTE READ) [8]

Superpower is a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI
datacenters. Built by Boom Supersonic, Superpower is launching with a
1.21GW order from Crusoe. Boom is vertically integrating
manufacturing. It plans to build a new Superfactory in Denver to make
2GW/year of turbines from raw materials.

TESLA CEO ELON MUSK CLAIMS DRIVERLESS ROBOTAXIS COMING TO AUSTIN IN 3
WEEKS (6 MINUTE READ) [9]

Elon Musk says that Tesla will remove safety monitors from the
passenger seats of Tesla Robotaxi vehicles in about three weeks.
Passengers are currently able to use the safety monitor to take
control at any time. The three-week timeline means it is possible for
the driverless Teslas to be operating by the end of the year.

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FACILITATING AI ADOPTION AT IMPRINT (15 MINUTE READ) [11]

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THE RISE OF THE 0.1X ENGINEER (1 MINUTE READ) [12]

Coding assistants allow anyone to become a 10x engineer. However, it
is the 0.1x engineers who will soon be the most valuable. These
engineers carefully curate code and set the right patterns rather than prompting to add code. It is really easy to add bloat to a code base,
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MISCELLANEOUS

OPENAI HIRES SLACK CEO DENISE DRESSER TO LEAD GLOBAL REVENUE STRATEGY
(2 MINUTE READ) [13]

OpenAI has hired Slack's CEO, Denise Dresser, as its chief revenue
officer. Dresser will oversee OpenAI's global revenue strategy across
both customer success and enterprise. She was an executive at
Salesforce for more than a decade before being named as Slack's CEO in
2023. OpenAI is on track to reach more than $20 billion in annualized
revenue run rate this year. It plans to grow to hundreds of billions
in sales by 2030.

THE BUBBLE IS LABOR (4 MINUTE READ) [14]

Companies only hire people because they can't do all of the work
themselves. If every founder could handle all of the tasks themselves,
there wouldn't be anywhere near the number of jobs we have today. The
only reason the current labor market exists is because there's a group
of founders/owners who need help producing their goods and services.
These people aren't required to hire anyone, and the moment they can
do the work themselves, they will.

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AI COMPANIES ARE HIRING ONE-THIRD FEWER PMS (1 MINUTE READ) [16]

Model builders and vibe coding platforms have 34% fewer 'product
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PEBBLE MAKER ANNOUNCES INDEX 01, A SMART-ISH RING FOR UNDER $100 (4
MINUTE READ) [17]

The Index 01 ring can only capture voice notes.

IMESSAGE'S DELIVERY ARCHITECTURE MAKES IT HARD TO BLOCK WITHOUT
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