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The Humanoid Robot Race

Besides the absolute rocket ship that crypto is on right now, the major story of the week is the growing amount of money pouring into robotics, especially of the robotic variety:

• Amazon announced its plans to spend $1B on startups that combine AI with robots.

• Figure AI raised $675M from big whigs like Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Microsoft.

It’s the next step of a trend that is accelerating quickly. Besides Figure, multiple companies are building in the space:

• Tesla has Optimus.

• Boston Dynamics has Atlas.

• Amazon has Digit.

• Sanctuary has the ultra speedy Pheonix.

• Apptronik has Apollo.

The major force driving this train are investors and companies looking to add another use case for AI, and with a potential 2.1M unfilled manufacturing jobs by 2030, there is a clear need here.

Let’s Just Hope: We don’t run into an iRobot or Terminator situation.

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TECH

• The demand for the Vision Pro is higher than expected.

• Tesla’s new roadster will be able to go from 0 to 60 in less than 1 second.

• X is bringing live video broadcasts to spaces. 

• The feds are looking into OpenAI’s firing of Sam Altman.

AI

• Llama 3 is coming in July.

• Adobe released an AI photoshop for music.

• Apple is telling everyone who will listen that they are grinding away on AI.

• Sundar swears that Google will do better in the future.

SCIENCE

• A man is in remission from HIV and blood cancer after a remarkable treatment.

• Epigenetic editing has been used to cut cholesterol in mice.

• Nanoscale solar cells.

• Let’s create fuel out of thin air.

CRYPTO

• Coinbase gave everyone a momentary heart attack.

• Blackrock is now advising investors to allocate 28% of their portfolio to Bitcoin.

• Robinhood 🤝 Arbitrum.

• Morgan Stanley wants to get into the spot ETF game.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise: Antora Energy raised $150M to accelerate thermal batteries.

Stat: $1B: How much Gemini has to return to customers of the now defunct Earn program.

Rabbit hole: Montage Fallacy (Herbert Lui)

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