Launch

DJI’s Power 1000 Mini Promises Portable Freedom — and a Slightly Different Midlife Crisis

DJI’s new compact power station is practical, overqualified, and alarmingly easy to justify if your hobbies already require too many batteries.

AI

Jeff Bezos Named His AI Lab After a Mythologically Tortured Titan — and Raised $10 Billion Before Anyone Asked What It Does

Five months old, $38 billion on the scoreboard, and a business plan best described as 'all of the physical world.' The man is not messing around.

AI

OpenAI Is Killing DALL-E. Its Replacement Was Tested Under the Name “Maskingtape-Alpha.” This Is Not a Screenshot.

DALL-E dies May 12. Its replacement was secretly A/B tested under tape-themed codenames. OpenAI announced this with a cryptic tweet and zero ceremony.

Apple

Tim Cook Ascends to the Great Apple Store in the Sky, Leaving Behind a $4 Trillion Religion

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, and the 'not innovative' crowd can kindly explain how a $4 trillion Apple, Apple silicon, wearables, services, and 2.5 billion devices are not innovation.

Deals

Fermi Named a CEO and CFO Double-Exit a ‘Strategic Evolution.’ The Market Responded Accordingly.

The AI nuclear startup with zero revenue and a $19B IPO just shipped its boldest feature yet: calling a leadership meltdown a rebrand.

Deep Dive

Personal AI, Explained: Why Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Apple Want a Permanent File on Your Life

Personal AI is becoming a memory business. This deep dive explains how Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Apple are turning your context into power.

Launch

Redis Wants to Tame Production ML — Feature Stores Just Got a Corporate Handler

Redis just launched Feature Form to civilize production ML plumbing. The pitch is bureaucratic, the controls are real, and that is precisely why it might work.

Fintech

PayPal Added Pix in Brazil, Which Is What Global Wallets Do When the Local Rail Already Won

PayPal’s Pix launch in Brazil shows where fintech is headed: global wallets survive by embedding the local payment rails users already trust.

Startups

Sinai.ai Raised $1.45 Million for Living Books — Finally, an E-Reader With Main Character Syndrome

Sinai.ai wants books you can debate, translate, quiz, and maybe emotionally co-parent. Tiny pre-seed, huge ambition, and I'm weirdly rooting for it.

Big Tech

Google Is Ready to Challenge Nvidia. The Chips Are Ready to Be Designed.

Google wants to dethrone Nvidia with custom inference chips. The timeline: 2027, roughly. Las Vegas is this week. Weezer is playing Thursday.

Startups

Schematik Raised a Pre-Seed to Vibe-Code Hardware — Soldering Just Entered Chat

Schematik raised $4.6M to make hardware feel a little more like software. It is ambitious, oddly charming, and one fried board away from proving itself.

Launch

Quickplay Wants Broadcasters to Chase the Algorithm — and This Time It Might Work

Quickplay’s NAB splash turns broadcasters into algorithm-chasing clip factories. Annoyingly, the product stack and customer rollouts look more real than ridiculous.