Dyson’s Strawberry Farm Factory

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Dyson’s Strawberry Farm Factory

Dyson’s latest engineering marvel is not a household appliance – it’s agricultural.

The company’s vertical strawberry system rotates 1.2M plants on two Ferris wheels inside a glasshouse, boosting yields by up to 2.5x compared to traditional farming.

Robots handle harvesting with vision-guided arms; UV lights kill mold overnight, and insects alleviate the need for pesticides. Most vertical farms burn through capital chasing headlines, but Dyson built a closed-loop system engineered to scale.

To date, vertical farming has failed to fulfill its high expectations, but Dyson may have cracked the code.

James Dyson, we salute you 🫡

Atlanta Welcomes Waymo

Autonomous taxis appear to be a two-horse, high-stakes race. Tesla and Waymo trade blows to own the road.

Following Tesla’s robotaxi rollout, Waymo flipped the switch in Atlanta, deploying a fleet of 100 fully autonomous vehicles available through the Uber app. This marks Waymo’s fourth active robotaxi city, joining Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles – with Austin on deck.

Waymo continues to execute. We’re living amidst its “hockey stick” moment.

$UBER ripped +8% Tuesday on news of the new territory. The stock closed just shy of an all-time weekly high.

Amazon’s Rural Expansion

Amazon plans to expand Same-Day and Next-Day delivery to more than 4,000 small towns and rural communities across the US, investing $4B to triple its delivery network by 2027.

The company will place inventory closer to customers using regional hubs and advanced AI to predict local demand while adding more delivery stations. This initiative will generate approximately 100,000 jobs in the “flyover” states.

Amazon seeks to challenge Walmart’s 60-year rural dominance and capture part of the $1T rural consumption market. The company is bringing urban-grade convenience to remote communities, reshaping rural logistics at scale.

Automation To Build AI

Foxconn and Nvidia partnered to deploy humanoid robots at its Houston plant to build Nvidia’s GB300 AI servers.

These bots, trained to pick and place components, insert cables and perform assembly, will join a dual-system rollout next year that includes both bipedal and wheeled units.

Nvidia will equip the humanoids with its Isaac foundation models and Jetson-class chips, while Foxconn builds them into a brand-new U.S. factory optimized for automated manufacturing.

Automation is not limited to our imagination. It’s here – IRL.

AI For Gene Mutations

Google’s AI research lab, DeepMind, just released AlphaMissense, an AI model that can predict if genetic mutations cause disease — a task that used to take years in the lab.

It classified 89% of all possible single-letter DNA changes, instantly outperforming every clinical database in existence.

Think of it like ChatGPT for gene mutations. Instead of treating genetics as raw code, AlphaMissense acts like an interpreter, translating it into functional insight.

It’s a quiet breakthrough, but one that could speed up drug discovery, slash R&D costs, and become the go-to filter for genetic screening.

Read Google’s official blog post here.