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🏠 AI

GitHub Copilot

When Copilot first dropped, it was just a useful autocomplete sidekick. Now they're trying to make it the full-blown primary development environment.

Powered by GPT-4, Copilot Workspace provides "Copilot-powered agents" that can understand developer requirements in plain English and then plan, generate, test and run the corresponding code changes.

The core experience is built around an AI-driven workflow:

1. Describe a task like fixing a bug or adding a new feature

2. Workspace generates a specification and implementation plan

3. It writes the actual code across files

4. You can review, tweak, and execute the AI-generated code

Developers get an integrated workspace with terminals, different views to modify the AI's suggestions, and the ability to share workspaces via links for collaboration.

This accurately represents how the workflow for developers using workspace would be 👇️ 

The Big Picture: A lot of people starting up would rather Copilot Workspace than hire interns.

Haha 👇️ 

Missed out on Ring and Nest? Don’t let RYSE slip away!

Ring 一 Acquired by Amazon for $1.2B

Nest 一 Acquired by Google for $3.2B

If you missed out on these spectacular early investments in the Smart Home space, here’s your chance to grab hold of the next one.

RYSE is a tech firm poised to dominate the Smart Shades market (growing at an astonishing 55% annually), and their public offering of shares priced at just $1.50 has opened. 

They have generated over 20X growth in share price for early shareholders, with significant upside remaining as they just launched in over 100 Best Buy stores.

Retail distribution was the main driver behind the acquisitions of both Ring and Nest, and their exclusive deal with Best Buy puts them in pole position to dominate this burgeoning industry.

Secure your stake before the offer closes.

🤝 THE LATEST IN…

TECH

• Google paid Apple $20B to remain Safari’s default browser.

• DARPA is actively testing out autonomous tanks with glowing eyes.

• Coca-Cola has made a $1.1B commitment to Microsoft Cloud and its generative AI capabilities.

• Google laid off 100s of core employees moving some positions to India and Mexico.

AI

• Randy Travis, with the help of AI, has regained his voice after suffering a stroke, and released new music for the first time in over a decade.

• SK Hynix's HBM chips, are almost sold out for 2025, prompting the world's second-largest memory chipmaker to ramp up production and invest in new facilities.

• A group of US newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI for using their articles without permission to train their AI models.

• A principal was falsely portrayed as being racist through a deepfake of his voice.

SCIENCE

• Boeing is finally launching two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its Starliner spacecraft after years of delays.

• Scientists have created a super-thin sheet of gold, called goldene, which could be used in electronics and chemical reactions, potentially with unique properties.

• NASA's Curiosity rover found unusually high levels of manganese on Mars, suggesting conditions that could have supported life similar to Earth's in the past.

• Researchers have come up with a cool nanotech system for taking insulin orally, which could totally change how diabetes is managed.

CRYPTO

• Bitcoin clocks 1 Billion transactions processed, 800 weeks after launch.

• Ethereum stablecoin volume bettered its monthly record.

• Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF sees the first net inflow since January.

• Crypto funding hits $1B for the second straight month.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise: Island, the enterprise browser company, raised $175M in Series D funding to further develop and expand its enterprise browser product.

Stat: $110 billion. That's how much Apple's board has greenlit for share buybacks, the biggest in their history, even though iPhone sales took a 10% hit.

Rabbit Hole: Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, and The Internet (Matthew Ball)

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