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Nineteen year old Zach Yadegari sold his calorie tracking app Cal AI to MyFitnessPal after it passed $30 million in annual revenue, The Hustle reported on October 9. He has now raised $10 million for Persona, a privacy first wearable.
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The NBA is working to put microchip sensors inside its basketballs as soon as next year. The smart ball weighs about a gram more, tracks movement and trajectory, and could settle who touched it last. It could also become a training product fans buy, and that is where the players start asking hard questions about their own data.
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Walmart has spent billions over a decade trying to fully automate the warehouses that feed its 5,200 stores. The progress is real: most stores now receive some automated freight. So is the catch. Electric bills triple, about 5 percent of the robots are broken at any given time, and the machines still cannot handle the big bags of dog food.
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Gatik's trucks run delivery routes between distribution centers and stores with nobody in the cab. No driver, no safety observer. The Hustle traced how a startup founded in 2017 picked one narrow, repeatable slice of trucking, landed Walmart as its first big customer, and raised 114.5 million dollars doing it.
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A wave of personal AI agents just launched and one tester ran them all. His four best routines take under an hour to set up, and the event follow up one alone is worth stealing.
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Elon Musk just announced that Grok Bot will send tasks to rival AI models like Claude and Midjourney, picking whichever is most likely to nail the job. The one model era is ending. Here is the creator playbook.
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