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☀️ On this day: On July 30, 1979, Apple's Lisa project took official form when Ken Rothmuller, hired away from HP, came on board to lead it under Steve Jobs. Apple was aiming to ship the finished machine in March 1981 at around $2,000; it slipped to January 1983 and went on sale for close to $10,000. Only about 10,000 units sold in two years, but the interface work went straight into the Macintosh.

What’s happening:

  • 🖥️ Microsoft confirms Copilot super app coming this year

  • 🤖 Mark Zuckerberg says billions will use AI agents soon

  • 🔬 OpenAI gives 100,000 researchers free ChatGPT access

  • 🌍 Google Earth adds AI image generation

  • 🦾 China threatens retaliation over US robot import ban

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🖥️ Copilot super app coming this year ↗️LINK

  • Nadella confirmed on Microsoft's Wednesday earnings call that the company will merge Copilot chat, coding, Cowork and its Autopilot agents into one super app for consumers and businesses.

  • Nadella said the consolidation happens this quarter, but gave no date, pricing or platform list. Fortune reported the project in May. OpenAI recently revealed ChatGPT Work, which folds in its Codex coding tool.

  • Microsoft posted $90 billion in quarterly revenue and passed 30 million paid Copilot seats. It also shipped four separate Copilot products first, then decided people wanted only one.

🤖 Zuckerberg says billions will use AI agents ↗️LINK

  • Zuckerberg told investors on Meta's July 29 earnings call that within five years billions of people will run personal AI agents handling their finances, health, relationships and household management.

  • Meta shipped business agents globally on WhatsApp and Messenger this quarter, reaching more than a million businesses. Zuckerberg called personal agents the foundation for Meta's next products and revenue lines.

  • Meta's stock fell almost 10% after the call, and free cash flow dropped 91% to $784 million. Zuckerberg also conceded there is nowhere near enough compute for the demand.

🔬 OpenAI gives researchers free ChatGPT access ↗️LINK

  • OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, handing 100,000 faculty and postdoctoral scientists free access to its frontier models. The first 10,000 start this summer, with the rest arriving through 2027.

  • Each approved researcher gets a 12-month workspace roughly matching the $200-per-month Pro tier, covering GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, Codex, ChatGPT Work, 75-plus life science skills, and four collaborator seats.

  • OpenAI counts this inside a $250 million research commitment. It also standardizes a generation of scientists on one company's stack years before anyone seriously prices out the alternatives.

🌍 Google Earth adds AI image generation ↗️LINK

  • Google added Nano Banana 2 image generation to Google Earth on the web, rolling out globally today. Users zoom to a location, tap "create image," and type a prompt.

  • The model builds pictures from Earth's satellite, aerial and 3D imagery. Google's suggested prompts cover historical scenes, real estate concepts, dream home renders, and infographics that pull facts about landmarks.

  • Google's sample prompt asks for a "hyper-realistic" Pompeii in 78 A.D., one year before Vesuvius buried it. No cameras existed then, so hyper-realistic here means confident guesswork.

🦾 China threatens retaliation over US robot import ban ↗️LINK

  • China's commerce ministry demanded Thursday that Washington reverse the FCC decision and threatened countermeasures, saying the escalating restrictions severely damage economic and trade stability between the two countries.

  • The FCC added foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds and connected power inverters to its Covered List on Tuesday, citing cybersecurity risk. The block covers new models only, and previously authorized robots stay legal.

  • The order never names China, though China holds roughly 85% of the humanoid market. UBTech shares fell over 6% Thursday, and Unitree and Agibot have both filed to go public.

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Do you think AI building better AI is something we should be worried about?

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  • B) No - 25%

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