Robot Battle Begins, USA Will Win the AI Race, and Cursor for Designers

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

We’re half-way through the week. You got this! And here’s your daily news and tools:

• The humanoid robot race is on.

• Deep research and the value of knowledge.

• VP Vance tells the EU that the US will win AI.

• Building a personal and private AI on your computer.

• Cursor for designers?

• Pulling back the curtain on YCombinator.

• No one knows what they’re doing I guess.

• DeepSeek but for just a few bucks?

• Does Sam regret not going open source?

• SSI now valued at possibly $20b? Where’s the product?

• A presentation that I sat through that was good for beginners.

• Roblox starts a new program to protect kids online.

• YouTube’s big bets on the future of AI.

• Summarify is YouTube summaries and transcripts.

• And here’s YouTube for actual scripts for your videos.

• AI robots should sound robotic.

And that’s it friends! Have a great day. Oh, and also, when do you think Perplexity will make a browser? I use their search more than Google and I trust it more too. What about you? Any changes on the instinctive search front?

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— Summer