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Quick Hits
AI love: Dating app features no humans.
Caffeine + charge: Starbucks adds Benz fill-ups.
Changing film: Generative cinema arrives.
Claude for all: Chatbot goes Android.
Connecting India: LinkedIn introduces video shorts.
Culture boom: K-content spending soars.
Crypto surge: Currencies ride Bitcoin rally.
Fighting frenzy: Evo expects record crowd.
G → Wiz: Google nears $23B Wiz acquisition.
iFund 2.0: Anthropic launches Anthology Fund.
Indian summer: Apple revenue soars 33%.
Leaving Cali.: SpaceX, X move to Texas.
Less force: Salesforce slashes 300 jobs.
Open to investigation: OpenAI’s NDAs scrutinized.
Phone breach: AT&T customer data hacked.
Space rhapsody: NASA beams Missy Elliott to Venus.
Urban air: Air taxis planned for California.
European dreams
VC investment in Europe is up 12% so far this year, boosted by AI companies — though the energy sector still leads. England leads with $9.4B so far this year, ahead of France, home of Mistral. U.K.-based AI startups account for 22% of the country’s innovation ecosystem value and worth $256B. “We are in the very early innings of one of the largest technology sea changes in history,” one VC says.
Digging the moon
Seattle-based Interlune is one of 11 startups receiving NASA grants to test commercial tech in space. The startup plans to use its $350k grant to pulverize lunar soil, or “regolith,” to extract a form of helium that could be used in quantum computing and fusion power.
Cutting cooling costs
U.S.-based Montana Technologies believes it has cracked the code to efficient air conditioning with its novel dehumidifier — a big deal considering that about 10% of the world’s energy is used for cooling.
Cream of the language crop
Swift, Finch, and Zig are emerging as must-know languages for programmers, according to some experts, and can greatly increase a candidate’s pay potential.
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