🕶️ Driverless rides outscale Uber

Ten bullets of updates

1. 🏭 Y Combinator levels up their game with a factory lease to boost production as they expand operations.

2. 🤖 AI code gen speeds up dev, but don’t forget the 10% error rate — always trust, then verify.

3. 🤼‍♂️ Billionaire cage fight pivots into X.AI’s bid for OpenAI, with Musk front and center.

4. 💻 a16z now offers a personal AI workstation, letting users run up to 8 high-end GPUs right at their desk for maximal AI tinkering.

5. 🇮🇳 OpenAI opens its first office in New Delhi, tapping into India’s booming AI talent pool, with hiring already underway.

6. 🏋️ Pandemic frustration led two entrepreneurs to build a $10M fitness side hustle that resonated with thousands. 

7. 🔗 Anthropic’s MCP emerges as AI connection standard, but security risks grow with each agent, stressing system integrity.

8. 👨‍💻 Coinbase engineers faced job loss for not using AI tools; 30% had to explain themselves to the CEO on a Saturday.

9. 🦄 AI startups could make billions by tackling tedious tasks that waste 16 hours a week for workers.

10. 🚀 Turbine tackles AI drug discovery hurdles with a novel approach to improve success rates by 50% in trials.

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🔌 Autonomous Vehicle Companies Compete With Tesla in Driverless Rides

Silicon Valley’s quietest player just hit a milestone: 250,000 robo-rides per week; without headline hype. As hype trains fixate on “who will win autonomy: Google or Elon,” the needle’s already moving. That’s more weekly rides than Uber completed its first entire year .

Momentum keeps ticking up, as regulators just green-lit testing in New York City —the holy grail of urban chaos. The takeaway: the “race” between AI-piloted rides isn’t about glossy demos; it’s about operational scale, regulatory chess, and convincing the public that ghost-riders in the backseat deserve their own Fast Pass. If Manhattan’s maze gets tamed, expect investors and city planners to recalibrate which logo is actually leading the self-driving future.

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Learn from this investor’s $100m mistake

In 2010, a Grammy-winning artist passed on investing $200K in an emerging real estate disruptor. That stake could be worth $100+ million today.

One year later, another real estate disruptor, Zillow, went public. This time, everyday investors had regrets, missing pre-IPO gains.

Now, a new real estate innovator, Pacaso – founded by a former Zillow exec – is disrupting a $1.3T market. And unlike the others, you can invest in Pacaso as a private company.

Pacaso’s co-ownership model has generated $1B+ in luxury home sales and service fees, earned $110M+ in gross profits to date, and received backing from the same VCs behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

Invest for $2.90/Share

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The Trap of Credit Cards is NOT the Interest Rate

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🛑 Nvidia Halts H20 Chip Production for China Amid Restrictions

Nvidia just smashed the pause button on production of China-destined chips after an official order shut down all further purchases.

This is more than just a missed fiscal quarter; it's a chess move in the ongoing US-China tech spat, where every ban and workaround reshapes the global chip supply chain in real time.

For Chinese cloud players and AI startups, that elusive GPU shopping spree just got rougher, forcing a pivot to local alternatives like Huawei. Meanwhile, US manufacturers are now testing just how much geopolitical risk can be hedged before their R&D calendars look like mysteries wrapped in export codes.

For those who bet on regulatory loopholes sticking around, don't get too comfortable: the rules aren’t exactly set in silicon.

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Startup Events and Deadlines

1. New York Venture Summit | 9, 10 Sept | NYC

2. Techstars Foundercon 2025 | 15-17 Sept | USA, Colorado

3. Antler Canada | Deadline: Sept 29 | Canada

4. 500 Startups Flagship Accelerator l Deadline: Oct 11 l USA

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