// the scoop
4 stories. Every morning. Actually worth reading.
Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft join a historic $122B round as OpenAI eyes an IPO and pivots to a 'unified superapp.' ChatGPT has 6× the monthly visits of the next-largest AI app.
ChatGPT reproduced a German children's book series nearly verbatim — text, cover art, and blurb. Filed in Munich, this is one of the cleanest verbatim reproduction cases in AI copyright law yet.
Layoffs in the 'thousands' as Oracle simultaneously plans a $45–50B AI data center buildout. Capital flows toward compute. Headcount is the cost being cut to fund it.
NASA's first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972 is underway. Artemis II won't land, but it validates the hardware and sets the stage for boots on the surface with Artemis III.
// blog
A product manager at a hardware company spent nights building an AI system he didn't need. Here's what happened, what broke, what worked, and what it taught him about technology — and the people who think it isn't for them.
// kits
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