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This Week's Tech Stories That Actually Matter

Chipotle Just Made Burrito Delivery Fly

Your guac is about to arrive by drone. Chipotle teamed up with Zipline to launch airborne burrito delivery in select U.S. cities. Fresh bowls and burritos land at your door in 10 minutes flat.

Fast food just got faster. And way more sci-fi.

The future of lunch is here, and it has rotors.

OpenAI Wants to Fund Your Startup Dreams

The Startups Program just went global. OpenAI's offering up to $250,000 in API credits, priority support, and co-engineering help to early-stage AI companies worldwide.

Translation: they're buying the next generation of AI innovators while locking them into their platform. Smart move when you're playing the long game.

Applications are open. Your ChatGPT wrapper might actually get funding now.

Nvidia and Fujitsu Built the World's Fastest AI Brain

Meet the new speed king: 600,000 FP8 petaflops of raw AI power. Nvidia's Feynman GPU meets Fujitsu's engineering, and Japan just claimed the computational crown.

This supercomputer doesn't just crunch numbers. It rewrites what's possible in AI research.

Meta and Google Signed a $10 Billion Friendship Deal

Six years, $10 billion. Google becomes Meta's AI cloud backbone, powering next-gen initiatives with custom tensor hardware.

When tech titans stop fighting and start collaborating, you know something big is brewing. Or they're both scared of someone else.

Apple Bets $600 Billion on Making Things in America

Over five years, Apple's pouring $600 billion into U.S. manufacturing. TSMC's Arizona fabs get a boost, assembly plants go full Python automation, and supply chains come home.

Tim Cook just made the biggest bet on American manufacturing since Ford built Detroit.

Anthropic Gets Serious About National Security

Claude's creators just formed a National Security Advisory Council packed with ex-congressmembers and military brass. Their job? Guide government AI deployment in defense and intelligence.

When AI companies start courting generals, you know we're past the "move fast and break things" phase.

Germany Just Figured Out How to Regrow Teeth

German scientists cracked the code on gene therapy that grows new, healthy teeth. Early trials show patients sprouting fresh chompers in under a year.

Dentistry just got disrupted by biology. Your wisdom teeth removal might be the last dental surgery you ever need.

That's your week. Drones delivered dinner, startups got funded, and teeth became renewable. The future keeps getting weirder and more wonderful.

Cheers,
Oleg👊

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