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Plus: Musk's Superintelligence Is a Landlord, DeepSeek Fought Washington's Ban
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Memphis councilors tied 6-6 on an 18-month data center freeze, then passed a last-minute 135-day pause that critics said nobody had read.
Mistral and Nvidia will speed up engineering simulation and publish open benchmarks testing whether AI agents can do real aerospace, automotive and chip design work.
Kevel raised $52 million partly for acquisitions, and its CEO says target prices depend on whether a company has AI in its name.
Intel tools up Arizona's Fab 62 and raises Ohio's first truss at a fab meant to ship chips in 2025, now finishing in 2030.
Recursive released Flint, a free laptop coding model it says its Eureka Machine largely built, without saying how much researcher time the system saved.
Facing a possible California wealth tax, Zuckerberg threatened to move; Meta answered with non-voting Class C stock he can sell without losing votes.
Daily Rundown Oct 20, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Electricity Now Picks AI's Tenants, Grok Testified Against SpaceXAI
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Plus: Anthropic Pulled Up the Ladder, OpenAI Copied Meta's Ad Machine
Deep Dive Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
YC founders want Sequoia or nothing. Sequoia wrote a $1 billion check to someone else.
Daily Rundown Oct 15, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Linux Stops Asking About the Bot, States Treat OpenAI Like Facebook
Daily Rundown Oct 14, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Anthropic Blames Open AI for Doomsday, Musk Wants Your Credit Card
Deep Dive Oct 13, 2026 · 8 min read · Members
Silicon Valley's golden child didn't live to see its fifth birthday.
Daily Rundown Oct 13, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Epic Delayed Star Wars for Claude, China's Humanoids Are Just Toys
Daily Rundown Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Plus: Cheap Labor Just Lost to Agents, Anthropic Turned Cops Into Beta Testers
Deep Dive Oct 9, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
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