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I spent the last day in Heilbronn. If you don’t know where that is: it’s about 45 minutes north of Stuttgart. And it is the place that is turning into an AI powerhouse, thanks to the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung, the foundation of the founder of LIDL. The foundation is very strategically pouring billions of € into building an integrated AI ecosystem, that combines a university campus with coworking spaces and corporate innovation labs. Really cool and very impressive. I attended the Heilbronn Slush’d conference for my client Masumi and talked to many young founders about integrating with the Masumi Agentic AI infrastructure.

OpenAI’s new Atlas browser finally puts some heat on Google by turning ChatGPT into an always‑on browsing companion, able to navigate, summarize, and act right inside the page — though I still find Perplexity’s Comet far more polished. Then there’s Strawberry, the “Chrome killer” that builds agents straight into every tab, which feels like having friendly interns at your fingertips, at least until your credits vanish. Meanwhile, MG Siegler’s “AGI or Bust” piece pokes at OpenAI’s all‑or‑nothing moonshot mindset, while Anil Dash calls for sobriety amid the hype, urging the industry to focus on where LLMs actually make sense. Finally, Zvi Mowshowitz coolly dissects the “AI bubble” talk, reminding us that speculative energy and genuine transformation often go hand in hand.

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