⚙️ Sam Altman's Playbook, Apple Leaks & NASA moon railway

Deep Dives & Tools 💬

10 Years after Growth Hacking, by Andrew Chen (Partner at a16z)

Nature vs Nurture, Why distribution always wins, Limitations & Risks; and more

The Ultimate Startup Playbook, by Sam Altman

Ideogram: Creativity on Steroids

Forget paying for OpenAI. Generate realistic logos, images, videos, and more - for free.

AI for Everyone: Free Coursera course by deeplearning.ai

News & Trends 📢

Apple in the News

• Apple now lets you control your iPad with your eyes

• Product roadmap leaked - including foldable iPhones (in 2026) and AR glasses (in 2027)

• Stock price back on the rise (after initially dropping 14%) on the back of AI optimism and buyback news

TikTok testing out hour-long videos

While other platforms (e.g. Meta, LinkedIn, Youtube) have sought to embrace short-form videos, TikTok (the OG of short-form) is now testing 60-minute videos with a limited set of users. [More on 60/30/20/10-min TikToks]

China launches world’s first sodium-ion batter storage station

Compared with lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries perform better at lower cost and the raw material is abundant and easy to extract. The station will serve the needs of 35,000 residents and remove CO2 emissions by 50,000 tons.

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Highlights from Google’s I/O Conference

Google strikes back at OpenAI:

• Gemini AI updates

• Project Astra: Your Virtual Assistant

• Google Search to be superpowered by AI

• Veo, a better version of OpenAI’s Sora? Try for free
  
  [Techcrunch]

MORE NEWS 📰

NASA announces plan for building a railway on the moon

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Bumble founder predicts the rise of AI dating concierge 

Too busy to find love? Set up your AI dating concierge and send it on hundreds of virtual digital dates instead! [More]

US and China convened official talks in Geneva on AI safety & risks
In a bid to prevent AI-driven disasters and even unintended war, high-level envoys from US and China convened in Geneva. Predictably, the US cited “misuse of AI” by China while China rebuked the US over “restrictions and pressure” [AP News]