💶 Scramble makes investing in consumer brands simple

Scramble is a European platform that lets anyone back fast-growing consumer companies and earn from it - without the noise of stocks or daily market tracking.

Each month, users get a curated batch of companies, and investments are automatically diversified.

➡️ Founder-backed loans, disbursed in stages to reduce risk
➡️ Group A: monthly repayments, up to 12.4% annually
➡️ Group B: higher risk, up to 25% returns
➡️ Scramble co-invests up to 20% in every batch

✨ New users get €10 for signing up, plus €5 bonus for every €100 invested.

Positioned as a hands-off, lower-volatility way to grow capital, Scramble is betting on the appeal of consumer brands as a stable entry point for retail investors.

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🤖 ChatGPT Chrome extension reads tabs and pages

The ChatGPT extension for Chrome now sees open tabs and interacts with page content. You can highlight any text, right-click, and select "Ask ChatGPT" to get answers.

The sidebar opens automatically without manual setup. The built-in browser also suggests site addresses as you type, making it more intuitive and faster.

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⌚️ Nothing readies first main brand smartwatch

Insider Yogesh Brar reports Nothing will launch its first main brand smartwatch in September. It may feature the company’s transparent design, cost under $300, and be limited to select markets.

Nothing currently sells smartwatches only under its CMF subbrand, like the Watch Pro 2 and Watch 3 Pro. A main brand watch could target a higher segment, possibly running Wear OS.

This comes amid reports of Nothing scaling back in some countries, which the company denies. Co-founder Akis Evangelidis calls it a reorganization into regional hubs and new units for growth.

If launched, the watch would complete Nothing’s ecosystem alongside phones, earbuds, and wearables. More details are expected soon.

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🤖 Gravity Falls Creator Trolls Sam Altman

Sam Altman shared a ChatGPT hack to connect the bot to family calendars and create daily podcasts about kids' interests and events.

Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, replied suggesting it’s better to just talk to your kids instead.

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🤖 OpenAI launches Presence for real-world AI agents

OpenAI introduced Presence, a product that puts AI agents directly into customer support and internal company workflows instead of keeping them hidden in demos or internal GPTs.

Presence is tailored for business use, with OpenAI engineers customizing setups when standard configurations fall short. Access is limited as companies are selected manually, with no clarity on compliance with the European AI Act.

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💫 NASA funds exoplanet surface imaging concept

NASA has backed a concept to capture images of continents and oceans on exoplanets many light years away. The challenge is the star’s brightness, about 10 billion times stronger than the planet’s reflected light, and their close proximity in the sky.

Physicists propose two solutions: a dynamic hierarchical nuller that cancels out starlight by combining light from multiple apertures, and a virtual telescope formed by two instruments spaced 100 km apart to achieve a giant effective aperture.

This approach could finally move exoplanet observation beyond single points of light to actual surface details, overcoming fundamental limits of telescope size and star glare.

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