Seventeenth time down the pile. Same handling — gather, arrange, resist the urge to tie it together.
Two on where the AI money is actually going. Meta’s compute pivot sits at the center of where infrastructure investors think the margin really sits, while a separate piece argues the manic phase is real but the crash date isn’t — broadly correct consensus, wrong in its precision.
Funding, at very different scales: Together AI’s $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation to scale open-source inference, and the far smaller but stranger $23.5 million for robotic manicures, expanding beyond Boston.
Robots on the show floor, which is where most people actually meet them: an ABB arm with a machine-vision camera bolted where a gripper should be, staring at a tanager, and the broader read in what a Yaskawa trade show floor reveals about the cobot boom.
One acquisition worth the note: Aikido buying Root for a reported $70 million, on the premise that a decade of telling teams to triage backlogs was the wrong instruction.
For the eye and the road: the Gullwing interior that defined an era, reached by stepping past a door hinged at the roofline, and — from a museum floor rather than a street — a silver Porsche 550 Speedster holding court among classics.
To close, somewhere with weather as a co-author: Flåm and Hellesylt added to five 2027 Norway fjord sailings, widening access to a coastline that rarely cooperates on schedule.
Seventeen rounds. Whatever was still open, once more.