1. 🌳 Anthropic is the First AI Startup to Join the Frontier Carbon Removal Coalition

Anthropic is the first AI startup to join carbon removal collective Frontier, contributing to a new $915 million batch of funding. So far, Frontier has contracted nearly $700 million across more than 50 projects to remove 1.8 million tons of Carbon. The new funding nearly doubles pledges to Frontier, bringing the total to $1.8 billion. (TechCrunch)

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3. ✨ Allbirds Rebranded to SmartBird With New CEO

Just two months after Allbirds rebranded itself from sustainable shoes to AI infrastructure, it’s changing its name to Smartbird. The renaming comes alongside the appointment of its new chief executive Nadia Carlsten, replacing current CEO Joe Vernachio. (CNBC)

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5. 🌎 AI Startup Odyssey Hit a $1.45Bn Valuation

World model AI startup Odyssey, founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and CTO Jeff Hawke, has raised a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45 billion valuation led by Natural Capital with Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, and others. World models are becoming a bit of the next big AI thing as they gather data from the physical world and simulate it with accurate physics. (TechCrunch)

6. ✌️ OpenAI is Sunsetting Pulse

Pulse, which showed users custom daily digests in ChatGPT, is being sunset in the next 14 days, less than a year after OpenAI launched the feature. If you still love daily updates, ChatGPT recommends using scheduled tasks to get your regular briefing. (The Verge)

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Wednesday, June 17