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βUm Pizzeria Delphina like right here on 18th is incredible. This is great.β
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βAnd so uh you know to Alex's point earlier around voice you know they recently launched a voice agent which is actually collecting evidence you know from their prospective clients and it's sifting thrβ¦β
βOpenAI released their India subscription product and I think it's something like three or four bucks a month. That makes total sense.β
βAnd kind of a great example of this is like the the salient, yes, they are going to people that collect um uh it's it's called autoloan servicing.β
βwe've as Google only just started to scratch the surface now of actually \n natively sort of plugging these things in to our amazing existing products let alone building the new ones you know AI inboxβ¦β
βrecently [clears throat] some of the insurance companies have said that uh it is actually so safe uh when where Tesla full full self-driving is so safe that uh they're they're offering uh customers haβ¦β
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βApple just named its latest laptop Neo -- same name as my son! Should I buy one?β
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βIt's so ridiculous and it it was so hard to get to in terms of building it and then there's a massive network effect. Um, which like people are starting six years behind you on that. But yeah, I'm surβ¦β
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βE4B & E2B (Edge): built for mobile with real-time text, vision, and audio processing.β
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βI went through this 10 years ago. We started Lucy 2016 and uh while I was there, we were extremely nervous about warning letters because if we got a warning letter, we thought it would mess up the FDAβ¦β
βThe cost of Lucas ranges from 10,000 to 55,000. Uh, that's a big range. According to a Pentagon spokesman, in line with the Iranian model, Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles, several hundred of whichβ¦β
βLittle known Scottsdale, Arizona based Spectre Works in Huntsville, Alabama, Alabama based integration innovation were tapped to build the drones.β
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βEnthropic is making its own splash with an acquisition. This was on Thursday, April 2nd. Uh, $400 million for coefficient bio started last fall, developing an AI drug R&D uh, platform.β
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βThe prenatal test from billion to one is already one of the most widely used genetic tests, but that's just step one.β
βSo uh last week the New York Times broke down the story of Medv a teleaalth provider of GLP1 weight loss drugs. Uh and the framing was basically that uh this was the first time in history a single perβ¦β
βA new survey of uh 750 chief financial officers found that AI had essentially no negative employment effect in 2025. Uh but data show employers are increasingly hiring for AI talent. In 2023, AI relatβ¦β