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Back to EpisodesStarship Reaches Orbit For The First Time
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Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct raised $1 billion, and Trump and Dario Amodei had dinner at the White House.
- Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs (CNBC)
- SpaceX launches its enormous Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (AP)
- Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (WSJ)
- AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Reuters)
- AI agent startup Instinct, still in early access, is building a personal assistant that runs on its own virtual phone and computer, with a phone concierge service and a trust network linking friends' agents (SiliconANGLE)
- Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting and an indication of thawing relations (Axios)
- Sources: Trump dined privately with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday, weeks after Amodei's call for a slowdown drew the president's ire, with a tech summit on AI set for Tuesday (The New York Times)
- AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised (Stratechery)