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🗞️In this edition
Zuckerberg's AI Now Predicts Brain Responses
Y Combinator Just Showed 190 AI Startups
Nvidia Just Ended the Open Source War
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In other AI news –
Google Just Removed the Last Reason to Stay on ChatGPT
AI Is Now Flying Fighter Jets. This Company Is Worth $12.7B.
AI Is Now Forcing Out Fortune 500 CEOs
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AI is spreading in three directions at once: deeper into the human body, wider across the startup ecosystem, and into a new philosophical debate about who gets to build it. This edition covers all three. Keep reading.
What's happening:
TRIBE v2 predicts how your brain responds to videos, podcasts, and text using data from 700 volunteers. It works without scanning every person individually.
When AI predicts neural activity faster than fMRI machines, experiments change forever.
Why this is important:
The model analyzes fMRI recordings to predict responses to complex stimuli. Meta released it under a non-commercial license for neuroscience research and AI development.
What's happening:
Nearly every company in the Winter 2026 batch uses AI in some form. Industries targeted include law, transportation, healthcare, libraries, fraud detection, and uranium mining.
Why this is important:
Standout companies include tools that teach robots human movement and AI that fixes its own production bugs.
One startup helps libraries manage inventory. Another detects tiny drones with radar. A third finds uranium deposits for nuclear power to run data centers.
What's happening:
Jensen Huang announced at GTC that arguing over open versus closed models is pointless. The future needs both. Nvidia launched a coalition to prove it works.
When the company powering AI picks both sides, everyone else follows.
Why this is important:
The coalition includes Mistral, Perplexity, and Cursor building open models together. First project launches soon. Every industry will use specialized models working as teams.
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Google Just Removed the Last Reason to Stay on ChatGPT – Google just let you bring your entire ChatGPT memory and history into Gemini. The switching cost just disappeared.
AI Is Now Flying Fighter Jets. This Company Is Worth $12.7B. – The U.S. Air Force picked their autonomous combat AI. The startup behind it just jumped from $5B to $12.7B in twelve months.
AI Is Now Forcing Out Fortune 500 CEOs – The CEOs of Coca-Cola and Walmart both stepped down for the same reason. They saw what's coming and knew they couldn't finish it.
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Meta built an AI that models your brain. Y Combinator's latest class is targeting everything from drone detection to uranium deposits. And the most powerful people in AI just agreed that open and proprietary models aren't competitors, they're partners.
The era of AI as one thing owned by a few is over. What comes next is messier, more distributed, and far more interesting.
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