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samuel beek, founder of schematik, says hardware is too difficult to build. his company just got $4.6 million to try and simplify the whole process.

garry tan, who is the ceo of y combinator, recorded an episode for rick rubin's tetragrammaton podcast. rick rubin is a famous music producer.

bryan johnson, famous for project blueprint and trying to live forever, announced he's doing a five-day sex abstinence experiment with kate tolo. it's just one more unusual thing on his long list of biohacking efforts.

new york city mayor zohran mamdani used tax day to bluntly state his administration's financial strategy: taxing the rich. he's sticking to his democratic socialist platform from day one.

donald trump talked about a rich friend who was "highly neurotic" and used ozempic, but it failed. this friend also begged trump to keep their identity private.

peter steinberger, who made the openclaw ai agent, gave a talk at tedtalks. he showed how openclaw lets you run a personal ai assistant on your own devices to automate tasks.

david im, a coo at blue cross and blue shield of minnesota, is saying companies are failing if their chief marketing officer isn't an "asian baby girl." this idea is a new take on viral marketing in the tech world.

morning brew, a media company, reported allbirds is pivoting to ai. the shoe company will now be called newbird ai and plans to offer gpu/cloud services.

kyle chan shared that a chinese robot, made by honor, set a new half marathon record, running super fast. it then dramatically crashed right at the finish line, making its human support team step in for the last few meters.

jeff bezos's company, blue origin, showed off its new glenn rocket booster landing successfully. the mission had a problem though, putting the ast spacemobile bluebird 7 satellite into too low an orbit, so it's getting de-orbited.

@signulll is launching skye, an ai home screen that wants to move beyond static apps. it aims to make your iphone proactively help you with daily tasks.

y combinator alum jesse genet, known for founding lumi, shared her perspective on using ai 'agents' in her household with a16z's sarah wang and katherine boyle. she talked about how artificial intelligence could transform how families manage their lives.

rahul chhabra, ceo of sabi, announced his startup is making a beanie that lets you control things with your brain, literally. it's backed by investors like khosla ventures, accel, initialized capital, and openai's kevin weil.

max junestrand, ceo of legal ai company legora, announced actor jude law is leading their new brand campaign. it's a bold move to make legal tech seem glamorous, implying the field itself is now exciting enough to draw celebrity attention.

josh constine, a venture capitalist at signalfire, gave a shout out to fintech company mercury and podcaster dwarkesh patel. they co-hosted a social deduction game event, which constine found more inspiring than a dinner.

@attwellbrian revealed atom's first open-source project, splitter, after keeping things quiet for eight years. some might wonder what they were doing all that time.

nik shevchenko, founder of omi ai, spent four months building a desktop ai named omi. it acts as a "life architect" by watching your screen and listening to conversations to give you instructions.

Creative director Jamey Gannon pointed out that DJ Diplo's understanding of AI is incredibly advanced. Thomas Pentz, or Diplo, is a DJ and producer who Gannon suggested has a view on AI that 99% of other creatives haven't caught up to yet.

eve bouffard, a product designer at y combinator, announced that accepted founders for startup school 2026 will receive a physical ticket. this adds a nice touch to the acceptance process for aspiring entrepreneurs.

an ios app developer known as razberrychai made a new app called daily. it's for quickly looking at markdown notes and is free and open source.

frontier tower, a san francisco tech hub, just launched superhero hotel. it's a new hotel in nob hill for startup founders. members staying there have already raised over $150 million.

alex mathew, a 17-year-old, built berry, an ai plushie designed to be an anti-sycophantic companion for teens. it's already viral on tiktok and shipping out, which is pretty wild for a high schooler.

kunal k savita announced aura, a project that lets smart bulbs change color to your music. your lights are about to get really into your tunes.

paul scherer, who works in the startup world, announced that eigenhq raised $15 million from venture capital firm benchmark. they plan to use the money to build a 'mutual friend' that helps people belong and grow. it's kinda wild to think about software making friends for us.

anthropic's claude ai launched claude design, which creates prototypes and slides from conversations. it makes you wonder about the future of some design jobs.

julian alvarez, an engineer, released an app called unbounded ∞. you can save anything, even funny cat videos, and then ask an ai about them.

jerry zhang, lemma's co-founder and ceo, announced lemma, a platform to fix ai agent failures. he claims ai agents are failing in unseen ways, making his solution pretty critical.

the developer, @m9rcn, released ploid, a service that turns the entire web into searchable profiles for everyone. this means normal people can find information about others faster and cheaper than before.

@daredevildave announced the release of @autoaicam, a camera that makes apps for whatever you photograph. it picks a mini-app, or 'frame,' to do things like track calories or let you try stuff on virtually.

tkexpress11 described the a16z speedrun SR006 demo day as a big event, with 1,000 investors there in person. It seems like everyone wanted to see the 60 new companies pitch.

Ten founders will receive this exact amount each year to build tools for future token factories, which is pretty specific.

y combinator shared news about humwork's launch, co-founded by yash goenka. it sounds like robots will soon be paying humans to just talk to them.

Auctor AI, a startup focused on making enterprise software setup easier, raised $20 million. This funding came from Sequoia Capital, a big venture capital firm. The company plans to use the money to change how software gets deployed.

zach schmitz, co-founder of product hunt, just announced his sidekick keyboard. he says it's the "greatest sidepiece" and has a "greatest launch video."