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"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."
— James Clear, Author of Atomic Habits
Top stories this week:
Amazon invested $2.75 billion into AI startup Anthropic.
Adam Neumann is looking to buy back WeWork for more than $500M.
SBF was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Headlines
Headlines you missed (or need to see again)...
Zuck is personally writing emails to AI researchers at Google to recruit them.
Robinhood launched a credit card with 3% cash back on all categories.
Boom had its first test flight of its supersonic jet.
United will now let friends and family pool frequent flyer miles.
OpenAI filed a ‘digital voice assistant’ trademark application.
Dutch hyperloop center aims to advance futuristic transport technology.
Bryan Johnson plans to start his own nation for anti-agers where pizza, donuts, and alcohol could be illegal.
First human to receive Neuralink brain implant used it to stay up all night playing video games.
Trader Joe's is raising banana prices for the first time in 20 years.
Japanese government is subsidizing AI matchmaking services as part of a national effort to address the country’s declining birthrate.
Watchlist
Startups and companies I’m keeping an eye on…
Renovate Robotics makes an automated roofing robot.
Nordensa lets you fund soccer players to gain part of their future earnings.
Lalo sells high-end baby and toddler products you'll be proud to own.
DroneUp is making drone food delivery a reality.
Graswald AI makes it easy to create 3D product visualization from scans.
AI-coustics isolates and clarifies speaker audio in video and audio recordings.
Preemptive AI is predicting health outcomes in real-time via biomedical signals from smartphones and wearable devices.
Airsign makes a high-end home vacuum cleaner with a built-in HEPA filter.
Dub is an open-source link-tracking infrastructure.
CountertopSmart is a marketplace for buying countertops.
Marblism can create a fully working SaaS product from a text prompt.
PodScan notifies you when a podcast mentions your brand or other key words.
Visuals
Three visuals worth taking a look at...
Outside Interests
Interesting internet finds…
A military training site in China is an exact replica of the road network near Taiwan's Presidential Palace.
GodMode lets you chat with all major AI chatbots with a single prompt and compare their outputs.
Spotify is testing video courses in its app.
Cliik makes stackable food storage containers that have a cool design.
Hindenburg Research is an investment research firm that uncovers lies about publicly traded companies, with several well known discoveries.
Meme Cleanser
Weekly Poll
52% of you didn’t know the first human patient was successfully implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink.
This Week’s Poll:
To keep up with demand, Chick-fil-A will no longer source antibiotic-free chicken. Consuming chicken that is not antibiotic-free potentially increases your chances of developing resistance to antibiotics. Will you still eat chicken from Chick-fil-A knowing about this change? Click the corresponding link to record your answer.
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Newsletter researched/written by Will Sullivan
and edited by Andrew Coath.