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OPENAI LOOKS FOR ITS “GOOGLE CHROME” MOMENT WITH NEW ATLAS WEB BROWSER

OpenAI's Atlas browser is now available for macOS. The browser has all the features users expect from a browser and also lets users chat with an assistant about web pages, browsing history, and bookmarks. Windows and mobile versions will be rolled out soon. Atlas has an Agent Mode that can complete tasks for users, but it is only available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers while still in 'preview mode'.

COINBASE BUYS ECHO FOR $375M TO EXPAND ONCHAIN FUNDRAISING

Coinbase has acquired Echo, the Cobie-founded onchain fundraising platform, for $375 million, marking its biggest push yet into community-driven and tokenized fundraising. Echo has powered over $200 million across 300 deals, letting startups raise capital directly from users through private rounds or public token sales via its Sonar product. The platform will remain independent but integrate with Coinbase to offer founders streamlined capital tools and investors access to early-stage deals. Coinbase also plans to extend Echo's infrastructure to support tokenized securities and real-world assets.

AMAZON PLANS TO REPLACE MORE THAN HALF A MILLION JOBS WITH ROBOTS

Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots by 2033. The company's automation team estimates that Amazon can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the US it would otherwise need by 2027, saving the company 30 cents on each item that it delivers to customers. Amazon is so sure of this automated future that it has started developing plans to mitigate the fallout in communities that may lose jobs. The company's plans could have a profound impact on blue-collar jobs and serve as a model for other companies.

SPACEX OPENS UP ITS STARLINK LASER TECH TO THIRD-PARTY COMPANIES

Muon Space is integrating Starlink's laser technology into its own satellites to provide them with an optical fiber-like connection to the Starlink constellation. SpaceX's mini laser terminals can support a 25Gbps connection between two satellites at a range of up to 4,000 kilometers. Muon Space plans to launch the first Starlink-enabled Halo satellite in Q1 2027. The company supplies weather and climate-monitoring satellite systems to third-party clients, including the US Space Force. Starlink's laser technology will transform Muon Halo satellites from isolated vehicles to real-time nodes on Starlink's global network.

THE ROBOTS FUELING AMAZON'S AUTOMATION

Amazon got started with robots in 2012 when it bought the robot maker Kiva, which made circular robots that could lift a stack of goods and take it to a worker. Since then, the company has categorized all of its operations into six types of automation: movement, manipulation, sorting, storage, identification, and packing. Amazon has developed robots that tackle particular changes like moving heavy carts, sorting packed orders, and manipulating items and packages. Employees only touch products at a few stages at Amazon's most advanced warehouse. This article takes a look at the state of Amazon's automation activities and what the future holds for the company and its technology.

BUILD YOUR OWN DATABASE

This post walks readers through how to build a key-value database from the ground up. Key-value databases work similarly to objects in JavaScript - you store values using a key and retrieve them later using that same key. The post covers everything required to build a Log-Structured Merge (LSM) Tree, a type of database used in the real world that works by combining an in-memory list with an on-disk file. LSM trees have proven to perform really well at scale - on Prime Day 2020, DynamoDB peaked at 80 million requests per second.

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