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Today’s highlights
- Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders — 2026-08-23
- Flipkart’s quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volume.
- Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors — 2026-08-22
- In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.
- Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs? — 2026-08-22
- On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats.
- Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research — 2026-08-22
- Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.
- Amazon just hiked the prices for Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle products by up to 60 percent — 2026-08-22
- Citing “significant increases in memory and storage component costs,” Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by up to 60 percent, as first reported by Fortune. The cheapest products in Amazon’s l
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill — 2026-08-22
- OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.
- Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model — 2026-08-22
- A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.
- US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense — 2026-08-22
- U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed.