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☀️ On this day: On June 19, 1623, Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the prodigy who built one of the world's first mechanical calculators. He invented the Pascaline at age 19 to help his father tally taxes, a brass box that added and subtracted through geared counting wheels. The Pascal programming language, released in 1970, was named in his honor.

What’s happening:

  • 📉 SpaceX shares drop 6.5% after IPO surge

  • 🤖 Google builds its own AI chip ecosystem

  • 🩻 Midjourney launches a suprising medical imaging division

  • 🧠 Perplexity's agent now remembers its own mistakes

  • 🤝 OpenAI hires Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer

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📉 SpaceX shares drop 6.5% after IPO surge ↗️LINK

  • SpaceX shares fell 6.5% Thursday to $178.50, knocking roughly $150 billion off a market cap that had topped $2.5 trillion. The stock still trades about 30% above its $135 IPO price.

  • SpaceX raised $75 billion last week in the largest IPO ever, briefly cracking the world's five most valuable companies. Retail investors who piled in for three sessions barely bought Thursday, netting just $9 million.

  • Investors are weighing SpaceX's costly AI pivot: this week it agreed to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion and lined up a bond sale of at least $20 billion. Analysts warned to expect this.

🤖 Google builds its own AI chip ecosystem ↗️LINK

  • Google is copying Nvidia's playbook, pairing its custom TPU chips with cloud software and developer tools to lock in an ecosystem. In April it launched eighth-gen TPUs split into separate training and inference models.

  • Nvidia built its dominance by pairing GPUs with CUDA software and developer lock-in, and still holds over 80% of the roughly $400 billion AI chip market. Google is targeting that moat with cheaper, cloud-optimized silicon.

  • The strategy is working: rivals are buying in, with Meta and Anthropic both signing major TPU deals and Anthropic alone reportedly committing up to a million chips. Nothing signals traction like your rivals becoming customers.

🩻 Midjourney just started a health company ↗️LINK

  • Midjourney launched a health division and its first hardware product, a full-body ultrasound scanner that lowers you into water ringed with roughly 500,000 sensors and maps your insides in 60 seconds.

  • The scanner runs on Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip technology, which Midjourney licensed for $15 million upfront. The company will install ten of them in a San Francisco wellness spa opening late 2027.

  • Midjourney says the scans rival MRI, but only about a dozen people have tried it and no peer-reviewed data backs that up. Launching as a spa, not a clinic, also dodges FDA rules for now.

🧠 Perplexity launches a new memory system ↗️LINK

  • Perplexity launched Brain today, a memory system for its Computer agent. Instead of storing your name or preferences, Brain logs what the agent actually did: which sources held up, what users corrected, and what failed.

  • Every task feeds a context graph. Overnight, Brain synthesizes that graph into a personal LLM wiki and loads it into Computer's sandbox before the next task, so the agent skips work it already figured out.

  • Perplexity claims 25% better correctness on repeat tasks, though those numbers are first-party with no outside benchmark. The catch: Brain only helps Computer users already paying $200 a month, and Perplexity keeps all your data.

🤝 OpenAI hires Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer ↗️LINK

  • Noam Shazeer announced on June 18 that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. He co-led Google's Gemini models as a VP of engineering and co-authored the 2017 transformer paper behind most modern chatbots.

  • Google paid a reported $2.7 billion in 2024 to bring Shazeer back from Character .AI, the startup he founded after Google passed on his early chatbot pitch. He walked out again under two years later.

  • Shazeer's exit lands as OpenAI heads toward a reported $1 trillion IPO. Google's $2.7 billion bet shows the catch with acqui-hires: you can buy the talent, but you can't make it stay.

Today’s Poll:

Do you think SpaceX will still be one of the world's most valuable companies a year from now?

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Yesterday’s Poll Result:

Do you think AI will actually have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years?

  • A) Yes - 52% 🏆

  • B) No - 48%

Reader’s opinions:

“duh... humans will work it out, and will make it work for a positive impact on us. some will lose out, but overall yes”

adi_jo***@***uk (voted A)

“It depends, how distributed AI usage is and how new jobs are created while AI is replacing others. And if AI stays in its box ...”

erikw***@***uk (voted B)

“I'm hoping it will free up our minds to focus on things way more innovative”

timj.s***@***uk (voted A)

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