Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time

Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct raised $1 billion, and Trump and Dario Amodei had dinner at the White House. Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs (CNBC) SpaceX launches its enormous Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, deploying 26 of the most advanced Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 in service (AP) Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (WSJ) AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (Reuters) AI agent startup Instinct, still in early access, is building a personal assistant that runs on its own virtual phone and computer, with a phone concierge service and a trust network linking friends' agents (SiliconANGLE) Sources: President Trump hosted Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting and an indication of thawing relations (Axios) Sources: Trump dined privately with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the White House on Sunday, weeks after Amodei's call for a slowdown drew the president's ire, with a tech summit on AI set for Tuesday (The New York Times) AI agents are the ultimate aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's ultimate prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised (Stratechery) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.