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🪟 Microsoft turns Copilot into a full AI agent for Windows 11 Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update transforms Copilot from a chat assistant into an autonomous, voice-controlled AI agent capable of managing your PC and interacting with apps and the web. Activated by saying “Hey, Copilot,” it can now take real actions on your computer. 🔸 Copilot can see what’s on the screen, respond to voice commands, and perform complex tasks like booking tables, ordering food, or organizing local files. 🔸 All actions require explicit user permission, and the autonomous mode is disabled by default for privacy and safety reasons. 🔸 A new Gaming Copilot is also built in, a live assistant that helps players with strategy tips, in-game information, and performance tweaks. 🔸 The feature rolls out first to Windows Insider testers before reaching all Windows 11 users.

With Copilot’s evolution into a true desktop agent, Microsoft is positioning Windows as the first mainstream operating system with a native, AI-driven co-pilot for daily computing.

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⚡ Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, faster, cheaper, and smarter Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its lightweight model, optimized for speed, efficiency, and cost. It now delivers coding and reasoning quality comparable to Claude Sonnet 4, but runs twice as fast and at one-third the price. 🔸 Haiku 4.5 excels at agentic tasks, code generation, and lightweight reasoning, making it ideal for production pipelines and real-time apps. 🔸 Pricing remains aggressively low: $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. 🔸 The model is available today through the Claude API and integrated into Claude Code for developers.

With Haiku 4.5, Anthropic is pushing a clear message, performance parity doesn’t need to come at premium pricing.

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💋 ChatGPT to introduce adult mode with erotic conversations OpenAI plans to launch an “adult interaction” mode for ChatGPT this December, allowing erotic and flirtatious conversations for verified adults. The move marks a major shift in how AI chat platforms handle intimacy and content moderation. 🔸 The update will include age verification, requiring users to confirm they are over 18, and in some cases, to upload ID documents. Underage users will be blocked from adult interactions. 🔸 OpenAI says the broader update will also make ChatGPT “more human-like, expressive, and emotionally responsive”, hinting at a friendlier personality model. 🔸 The change is seen as a response to the explosive popularity of character.ai, Replika, and other “AI companion” platforms that thrive on emotional and romantic engagement. 🔸 Critics, however, warn that document-based age verification could become a dangerous precedent, today for erotica, tomorrow for healthcare, and later for politics.

If OpenAI truly opens the gates to intimacy, it won’t just challenge competitors, it’ll redefine what “personal AI” means in a world where companionship, data, and desire start to merge.

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🧠 Gemini 3.0 Pro now builds full web simulations of Windows and macOS Google’s upcoming Gemini 3.0 Pro is already demonstrating wild creative capability, users report it can generate fully functional web-based operating systems that mimic Windows and macOS, all from a single prompt and inside one HTML file. 🔸 One user asked Gemini to “create a web OS like Windows OS” with a text editor, terminal (with Python), game, file manager, paint app, video editor, and other bundled tools, Gemini delivered the entire code in one go. 🔸 The result: a complete interactive simulation of Windows and macOS that runs directly in the browser via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 🔸 Demos are live — Windows version and macOS version — showcasing detailed icons, apps, and animations. 🔸 The rumored public release of Gemini 3.0 is set for October, with Pro-level models expected to debut in Google’s AI Studio soon after.

If this demo reflects real model capabilities, Gemini may soon blur the line between coding assistant and autonomous software creator.

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⚡️ Nvidia launches $3,999 DGX Spark, a personal AI supercomputer for your desk Nvidia has unveiled the DGX Spark, a compact AI workstation that delivers server-level performance in a desktop form. Starting at $3,999, it goes on sale this week, aiming to make petaFLOP-class compute accessible to researchers, developers, and small AI labs. 🔸 Powered by Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace-Blackwell Superchip, combining an ARM CPU and Blackwell GPU for unified AI workloads. 🔸 Comes with 128 GB unified memory and up to 4 TB NVMe SSD storage, offering nearly 1 petaFLOP of AI performance. 🔸 Can locally train or fine-tune models with up to 200 billion parameters, bridging the gap between desktop and data center. 🔸 OEMs like Dell, HP, and ASUS are expected to build Spark-based systems using the same architecture.

By compressing server-grade AI power into a desktop, Nvidia isn’t just selling hardware, it’s seeding an ecosystem for local frontier-model experimentation and on-prem AI autonomy.

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🕊️ Icarus aims to conquer the stratosphere with autonomous “birds” From Y Combinator’s latest batch comes Icarus, a rare non-AI startup developing autonomous drones designed to cruise the stratosphere. The idea: build long-endurance, solar-powered “birds” that can film, relay communications, and operate above weather systems for extended periods. 🔸 Founder Henry Kwan shared a 27-slide pitch deck, notably light on numbers but heavy on conviction, citing his 10,000+ hours in aerospace R&D as proof of execution capacity. 🔸 The concept echoes past attempts by Google (Project Loon) and Facebook’s Aquila, both of which failed to make stratospheric flight commercially viable. 🔸 Icarus claims advances in lightweight materials, autonomy, and solar efficiency now make persistent flight feasible, though technical details remain undisclosed. 🔸 The company’s vision blends aerial connectivity, high-altitude imaging, and atmospheric data, potentially creating a new layer between satellites and drones. Meanwhile, Russia’s Stratolink, founded by Nicholas Oxman, is pursuing a similar goal, a small solar aircraft capable of flying up to 40 days autonomously. The firm announced a ₽1.7B raise and a ₽3.4B valuation, though its prototype and facilities remain largely unverified.

Stratospheric autonomy sits at the intersection of aerospace and infrastructure and may become the next race between frontier engineers and gravity itself.

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💰 New VC funds for early-stage founders, global roundup Let’s kick off the week with a strong batch of freshly launched venture funds, covering AI, climate, biotech, and quantum. If you’re raising or scouting partners, this is your early-stage investor radar. 🔸 Alt Capital (USA) — $275M second fund focused on AI enterprise software; early-stage, U.S. and global. 🔸 Tandem Ventures (USA) — $50M first fund (+$100M SPVs) backing B2B SaaS and vertical AI startups. 🔸 T.Rx Capital (USA) — $77.5M first fund investing in biotech and life sciences. 🔸 VoLo Earth Ventures (USA) — $135M climate tech fund targeting energy, mobility, and industry. 🔸 Archetype (USA) — >$100M third fund for crypto and decentralized infrastructure plays. 🔸 Touring Capital (USA) — $330M debut fund backing AI-driven software at the early-growth stage. 🔸 Toyota Invention Partners & Woven Capital (Japan) — $670M + $800M funds focused on AI, automation, and climate tech. 🔸 Concept Ventures (UK) — €75M second fund, now Europe’s largest pre-seed vehicle. 🔸 Better Tomorrow Ventures (USA) — $140M third fund specializing in fintech. 🔸 55North (Denmark) — €134M (first close) quantum fund targeting computing, sensing, and communications. 🔸 Wave Function Ventures (USA) — $15.1M debut deep tech fund in nuclear, robotics, and aerospace. 🔸 Sugar Free Capital (USA) — $32M fund dedicated to AI-native startups. 🔸 Crystal Venture Partners (USA) — $33M fund for AI in insurance and regulated industries. 🔸 Ascenta (USA) — $325M fund building biotech platform companies.

The early-stage market is alive and well, from quantum to climate, capital is moving fast toward deep and defensible tech.

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