The Roundup

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Here's the news:

🤖Sam Altman was ousted as the CEO of OpenAI. He now joins Microsoft.

💨 An MIT startup has created a Lego-like system to pull carbon out of the air.

🧠 AI is helping develop potential Alzheimer’s treatments.

🚗 Xiaomi, the company most known for phones, has launched a car.

📱 iPhones are finally getting RCS. But the green bubbles will remain.

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Here's what you might have missed:

• Kendrick Lamar dropped a phone. It’s already sold out.
• OpenAI hosted its first developer conference. Here’s our roundup. 
• Omegle has shut down after 14 years following abuse claims.
• Spotify unveiled a redesigned look for its TV app. 
• Could this replace a phone? Humane finally revealed its AI-powered pin.
• Figma launched a new suite of AI tools for its whiteboard product: FigJam. 

Happy Monday! Did you know there are only nine whole Mondays left until we bid adieu to 2023? How time flies! 

Here’s the news: 

• OpenAI is hosting its first-ever developer conference today. Any predictions?
• Kendrick Lamar just dropped a phone. It’s already sold out. 
• We’re hosting a live event in San Francisco today. Join us!

Happy Monday, makers! Here’s some good news to put a pep in your step this week. 

• Apple’s Mac event is today, and the new lineup promises to be ‘scary fast’.
• Devs, rejoice! Instagram says a Threads API is in the works.
• ChatGPT got a big update. Enjoy browsing the web, analyzing PDFs, and more.

Hope your weekend was great. I can't help but wonder what the people at Wikipedia were thinking this weekend while considering this indecent proposal. 🤔

But here's some better/actual good news.

• Google vs Duolingo is on. But does the tutoring tool have a sassy bird mascot?
• Tinder lets friends view profiles. Can’t ship a partner without early feedback.
• The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups is here. 🚧 We 👀 beehiiv!
• Skip to Stripe's news.

We’re trying something new and have rounded up even more tech news – only the best from last week, from our own #tech-news Slack channel at Product Hunt.

• Disney made a real WALL-E: Hello, new fren. 🥺
• Prada is building spacesuits for NASA. Astronauts are about to be dripped.
• Personal flight is here: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a “jet ski in the sky.”
• Visualize how transformers work. A slick site to understand LLMs.
• Atlassian is acquiring Loom for $975 million. Props to this community for being early adopters.

Spacesuits are cool. We all know that. But they can always get cooler. 

Prada has partnered with NASA to build spacesuits for the next moon mission in 2025. Don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the Paris Fashion Week reveal.

Want to tap into the minds of the developers you’re building your product for? You may be surprised to learn a few things that contradict what you’ve heard.

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Amazon is stepping up its rivalry with Microsoft, Meta, Google, and more by agreeing to potentially invest $4 billion in Anthropic, the makers of ChatGPT competitor Claude. Could we see a new Claude-powered Alexa soon?

ATT Twitter users: Have you started calling it ‘X’? According to a recent poll, 79% of X users in the US say they are aware of the change, but 69% of them still refer to the platform as Twitter and to posts as “tweets.” What about you?