In Today’s Edition

• SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch NASA's $985 million Psyche mission towards a metal-rich Asteroid in October

• Voiceflow, a platform for building conversational AI experiences, raises $15M

• The ‘internet’s favorite underwear’ goes mainstream: Gen Z brand Parade agrees to be bought

• Apparent Images & Specs Of Samsung Headset Prototype Leak

• Inside the Decline of Stack Exchange

• Viruses cause 200+ diseases. This one drug may be able to treat them all

🚀Startups Nuts

SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch NASA's $985 million Psyche mission towards a metal-rich Asteroid in October

NASA's Psych mission is gearing up for an early October launch. The $985 million mission involves sending an orbiter to rendezvous with the 16 Psych asteroid, which is believed to hold approximately $10,000 quadrillion dollars worth of nickel and iron. It was discovered in 1852 and has a diameter of about 140 miles. If everything runs on schedule, the Psych spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid in around six years.

Voiceflow, a platform for building conversational AI experiences, raises $15M

Voiceflow, a conversational AI platform, has raised $15 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $105 million. The company focuses on automating customer support and utilizes large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4. Its clientele includes Amazon, JP Morgan, and State Farm. Usage has doubled since the launch of ChatGPT in November.

🏭Business Nuts

Netflix finally streams video games, too

Netflix has started the first public tests of its cloud-streamed games. Subscribers in Canada and the UK will soon be able to stream Netflix games to select TVs, connected TV devices, and browsers. The two games currently available are Oxenfree and a new title called Molehew's Mining Adventure, a gem-mining arcade game. Players control games on their TVs using their smartphones. A list of compatible devices is available in the article.

The ‘internet’s favorite underwear’ goes mainstream: Gen Z brand Parade agrees to be bought

Beloved Gen Z underwear brand Parade has agreed to be bought by Ariela & Associates International, an intimates manufacturer and licensee of Fruit of the Loom. Parade was last valued at $200 million in August 2022. The price of the deal was not disclosed. Digitally native, direct-to-consumer retailers that haven’t reached profitability have struggled against a tough funding environment and some are eyeing an exit.

📱Tech Nuts

Apparent Images & Specs Of Samsung Headset Prototype Leak

Images and specs of a prototype Samsung headset have been leaked. The XR headset uses a new variant of Android. It will reportedly feature four tracking cameras, pancake lenses, dual RGB cameras for color passthrough, a depth sensor, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung's own Exynos 2200 chip. It doesn't have tracked controllers, using hand tracking and eye interaction instead. The headset will likely be in the $1,000-$2,000 range. The leaked images are available in the article.

Inside the Decline of Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange's library of knowledge is under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can use it in any way, even for commercial purposes. A large chunk of its programming-specific data was ingested by AI models. This article looks at Stack Exchange usage and how the introduction of generative AI to the public has affected trends.

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🎁Miscellaneous

Viruses cause 200+ diseases. This one drug may be able to treat them all

A New Zealand-based startup, Kimer Med, is trying to develop a broad-spectrum antiviral. Its current strategy involves targeting a factor in human cells to attack a wide variety of viruses. Kimer's technology triggers a process that kills targeted cells upon detection. While it has shown promise in the lab, the company still has to prove that it works in animals and humans. A broad-spectrum antiviral would save tens of millions of lives and trillions of dollars over the coming decades.

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

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• Apple Watch X coming next year with blood pressure tracking

• The scary math behind the world’s safest assets

• Corporate America is rebranding ESG

• Tech stocks have a yield problem

😎Fun Fact

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time, equal to 1/100th of a second

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