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Schedule a demo to learn more 📱 Big Tech & Startups Exclusive-OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation (3 minute read) OpenAI is considering filing for an IPO as soon as the second half of 2026. It is laying the groundwork to raise funds that could value the company at up to $1 trillion. An IPO would help finance the company's plans to pour trillions of dollars into AI infrastructure. The company's annual revenue run rate is expected to reach about $20 billion by the end of the year. Nvidia Becomes First $5 Trillion Company (5 minute read) Nvidia has hit $5 trillion in market value. The company's shares have been boosted by a recent flurry of deals and partnerships with some of the biggest companies in AI and corporate America. Nvidia is now bigger than AMD, ARM, ASML, Broadcom, Intel, Lam Research, Micron Technology, Qualcomm, and TSMC combined. Its value also exceeds entire sectors of the S&P 500. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration (9 minute read) PRIMA is an eye prosthesis that can restore functional sight to patients with advanced macular degeneration. It gives wearers the ability to perceive shapes and patterns, with most wearers regaining the ability to read a year after receiving the device. Wearers can adjust contrast and brightness and magnify their vision up to 12 times. The device currently only provides black-and-white vision, but researchers are working to produce a full range of grayscale. An Alzheimer's pill appears to protect some in a high-risk population (4 minute read) An experimental drug called valiltramiprosate (ALZ-801) slowed cognitive decline by 52% in people with mild cognitive impairment in a study of more than 300 people aged 50 or older who were genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's disease. Participants who received the drug experienced about 18% less atrophy in the hippocampus compared to those who received a placebo. ALZ-801 is a twice-daily pill that can be taken at home. It works by preventing amyloid proteins from clumping and forming plaques. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Could public AI tools be leaking your sensitive data? (Sponsor) One in three employees uses AI tools without approval, risking data leaks and compliance violations. We love the Enterprise AI Governance Kit from You.com. Its ready-to-use templates help protect your organization, including security checklists, usage policies, and governance frameworks. Download the kit. Writer API (13 minute read) Chrome's Writer API helps people create content that conforms to a specified writing task. It can be used to write any kind of content, improve content, or generate ideas for more content. People looking to use the API will have to join the Writer API origin trial running in Chrome 137 to 148. uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade (6 minute read) uv revolutionizes how easy installing and using Python can be. The tool can install any Python version, install packages, manage virtual environments, and solve dependency conflicts extremely quickly. It is very fast and works on almost any operating system or platform. This post includes a quick guide on how to get started with uv. 🎁 Miscellaneous Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground (13 minute read) Project Rainier, a 1,200-acre site near Lake Michigan, is one of the largest operational AI data centers in the world. Amazon is using the site to train frontier artificial intelligence models entirely on its own chips. Amazon and its competitors have pledged more than $1 trillion towards AI data center projects. They are all racing to build supercomputing sites to meet an expected explosion in demand. Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite (10 minute read) Tens of thousands of newly laid-off white-collar workers in the US are entering a stagnant job market with seemingly no place for them. Investors are pressuring companies to streamline operations. Nearly two million people in the US have been without a job for 27 weeks or more. Meanwhile, opportunities for front-line, blue-collar, and specialized workers are growing. ⚡ Quick Links Consumers are expecting more from fintech. Are you ready to deliver? (Sponsor) For years, Plaid has been running an annual survey of fintech users to track and analyze how consumer behaviors and expectations around fintech evolve. See the results. New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel (20 minute read) Three new physical attacks that target Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have surfaced, raising questions about the true security offered by these TEEs and the exaggerated promises and misconceptions coming from the big and small players using them. More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage (14 minute read) The post presents a postmortem of the recent AWS us-east-1 outage, which lasted 14 hours and affected 140 AWS services. The Old Rules are Dead (7 minute read) OpenAI is sharing any prompt that requires a Google Search with Google, whoever is doing its scraping, and also with whoever's site shows up in the search results. Craving more AI in your inbox? (Sponsor) TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free. Subscribe now. YouTube to Offer Voluntary Buyouts to Employees Amid AI Disruption (3 minute read) While no roles are currently being eliminated, voluntary separation programs can sometimes serve as a prelude to cuts later on. Internet Pioneer AOL to Be Acquired by Italian Tech Company Bending Spoons (3 minute read) Bending Spoons' approach for AOL and its other investments is to revamp and retain businesses. Uber plans to offer autonomous taxi rides in San Francisco starting next year (2 minute read) Uber is developing a robotaxi with electric car company Lucid and driving technology company Nuro Inc. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/7c97ce4b/ Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. 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