🎯 OpenAI launches jobs platform + certifications for the AI workforce

OpenAI rolled out a new Jobs Platform and AI Certifications program, aiming to both disrupt hiring and prepare workers for an economy reshaped by AI.

🔸 Jobs Platform uses AI to match companies with AI-skilled talent
🔸 Special focus on helping small businesses and governments access workers
🔸 Certifications span from basic AI use to prompt engineering and advanced skills
🔸 Target: certify 10M Americans by 2030, starting with a Walmart partnership
🔸 Training integrated into ChatGPT “Study mode” for easy upskilling

By fusing credentials with a hiring marketplace, OpenAI is positioning itself not just as a toolmaker — but as an infrastructure layer for the future of work.

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🚀 Apex raises $200M to scale satellite bus production capacity

Apex, the LA-based spacecraft company, just closed a $200 million Series D round led by Interlagos, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. The raise will supercharge its manufacturing, tech, and global reach.

🔸 Will use funds to expand production throughput and deepen technical capabilities
🔸 Also building out engineering teams, mission services, and new global sales channels
🔸 Co-founders Ian Cinnamon & Max Benassi bring experience from Synapse, SpaceX, and Astra; mission: reliable, standard satellite platforms for constellation scale
🔸 Apex claims a record: clean-sheet design to flight-ready satellite in under a year
🔸 Growth includes vertical integration (e.g. avionic, power, propulsion), expanding real estate (100,000+ ft²) to boost output ~50% plus room for R&D and payload integration.

If Apex delivers, it could help shift the bottleneck in space from launches to spacecraft platforms — enabling more rapid and reliable constellation deployment worldwide.

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🔍 AI-guided cameras enable solo surgery, a step toward surgical automation

Surgeons in Chile have used an AI-guided camera (part of the MARS robot) to perform a gallbladder removal alone, without a human assistant. The camera tracks the surgeon’s tools and adjusts angles automatically.

🔸 Combines magnetic surgical instruments with software that dynamically adjusts angles and views no external camera operator needed.
🔸 First time this has been done on a real patient, not just in animals or simulations.
🔸 Part of broader efforts: Johns Hopkins and others have already done complicated surgeries on pigs using AI-guided systems.
🔸 The global surgical robot market is large and growing: ~$15.6B in 2024, projected to reach ~$64.4B by 2034.

We’re seeing tangible moves toward surgical automation with AI not just assisting but taking a more autonomous role. But questions remain: how reliably can these systems perform in diverse, high-risk settings, and how fast will regulatory, safety, and adoption hurdles be overcome?

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🤖 Figure hits a $39B valuation in latest funding round

Figure, the humanoid robotics startup, raised over $1B in its Series C round, placing its valuation at $39 billion.

🔸 Funding led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Intel Capital, Brookfield and others.
🔸 Capital will be used to scale up its humanoid robot fleet, build infrastructure for training robots, and kick off advanced data collection.
🔸 Since its founding in 2022, Figure has raised nearly $2B in total.

Robotics is continuing its push into real-world deployment, not just lab demos. With massive funding and backing from big hardware players, humanoid robots working alongside humans in factories and warehouses are looking less sci-fi and more imminent.

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🔺 Reve launches AI-powered image editor

Reve has rolled out a new AI image editor that lets users modify uploaded or generated images through a chatbot-style dialogue.

🔸 Each request produces three image variations for users to choose from.
🔸 Editing works on both uploaded photos and AI-generated images.
🔸 Compared to mainstream editors, Reve currently enforces fewer content restrictions.

By blending conversational editing with lighter guardrails, Reve is positioning itself as a flexible alternative in the crowded AI image editing space.

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💻 Slimmed-down Windows 11 build released at just 2.3 GB

A stripped version of Windows 11 is making waves: it weighs only 2.3 GB and is designed to run smoothly even on older PCs.

🔸 Removed: Xbox Hub, Windows Update Center, and Windows Defender.
🔸 Gone: Weather, Office, Solitaire, and other bundled apps.
🔸 Streamlined: non-essential drivers stripped out, only core ones remain.
🔸 Browsers cut: both Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer removed.

This ultra-light build trades Microsoft’s ecosystem for raw speed and simplicity, appealing to power users, but with major trade-offs in security and official support.

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👓 Meta unveils Ray-Ban Display AR glasses

Meta has revealed Ray-Ban Display, its first AR glasses with a built-in 600×600 pixel lens display that stays nearly invisible to others.

🔸 Classic Wayfarer design, but right lens doubles as a private screen.
🔸 Functions: messages, social feeds, calls, music, maps, Meta AI assistant.
🔸 Gesture bracelet reads muscle signals, finger bend to select, double move to hide.
🔸 Battery: 6h glasses (30h with case), 18h bracelet.
🔸 Price: $799, US launch late September; Canada, France, Italy & UK in early 2026.

Meta is betting on stylish, everyday AR, but the question is whether a single-eye micro-display can win mass adoption.

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📚 OpenAI shares 100 best student prompts

OpenAI just released a curated list of the top 100 chats and prompts for students, covering everything from essay help to interview prep.

🔸 Compiled and tested by real students for real use cases.
🔸 Organized into 3 clear categories: Study, Career, Life.
🔸 Covers essays, research, exam prep, job applications, and daily productivity.

A ready-made playbook that turns ChatGPT into a must-have study partner.

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🎥 Luma AI unveils Ray3 for smarter video generation

Luma AI has released Ray3, a next-gen model that reasons through stories, respects physics, and keeps scene details consistent, while being the first to generate video in 16-bit HDR.

🔸 Generates from text prompts, images, or video inputs.
🔸 Ensures coherent narratives with stable objects and lighting.
🔸 Available across all plans, with quality caps on the free tier.

A step toward AI video that doesn’t just create clips, but tells stories.

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🗣️ Sam Altman: “If your product has any retention at all, you’re actually in really good shape”

Sam reflects on the first group of users that tested ChatGPT:

“This was back when the model was really bad. Very few of the users actually stuck with it. Retention was atrocious. But for the users that did retain, their usage increased over time.”

He admits that OpenAI almost didn’t even launch ChatGPT because of how atrocious early retention was. But after reflection, he believes this is a really important learning for startup founders:

“If you have a product that has any retention at all, you’re actually in really good shape. If it’s 5%, that can be totally fine. The default is almost all the way down in a straight line to zero. But I didn’t quite understand that as intuitively at the time.”

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