Show Notes
This week, we discuss the Fable ban, SpaceX's $60B Cursor buy, and why Lovable wins when AI picks your stack. Plus, Europeans are at the World Cup and already drank Boston dry.
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Runner-up Titles
Waited out the storm
Maybe we should build some castles or something
Years of lawsuits ahead of us
The ultimate dream
AI SEO
I hope you’re paid by the hour
Always be monitoring to me
Rundown
Anthropic
How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential
Cursor
Live Updates: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
Vibe Coding
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
curl summer of bliss
Relevant to your Interests
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
apple/container
The Virtual OS Museum
YouTube has eclipsed Netflix in viewership via (@lucas_shaw)
OpenAI to acquire Ona
Keycap Quarry – Artisan Keycaps for Mechanical Keyboards
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
VCs behaving badly
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Panther
Sponsors
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Nonsense
The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute
Minesweeper 3D No Guess – Free 3D Browser Game | Logic Solver
Fly around the world (Experimental) | Google Earth | Google for Developers
Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers
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