😸 Every ticket gets an agent now

gm legends, happy Thursday.

OpenAI open-sourced how they actually run Codex agents; four cryptographers launched the private AI chat you can audit yourself; there's a flyable universe in a browser with no login; and the final two regional events for The Pitch by Deel are coming up. Want your chance at winning $1M+? Apply below.

Symphony is OpenAI's open-source specification for Codex agent orchestration — it turns a Linear board into a control plane where every open ticket gets an agent running on it continuously until it's done, humans review the output, and accepted PRs land automatically.

🔥 Our Take: The interesting number isn't the 15K GitHub stars — it's the 500% increase in landed PRs OpenAI's own teams saw in the first three weeks. That's not a speedup; it's a restructuring of what the job is. If every ticket has an agent running on it until it resolves, the engineering team is no longer writing code for most tasks — they're reviewing it. Symphony is OpenAI showing, not just saying, what that looks like in practice.

Makers — Singapore and Dubai are the last two cities still open for The Pitch by Deel.

Applications for Singapore close May 2, Dubai closes May 4. Up to 100 regional winners each receive $50K in SAFE funding, and up to 10 grand finale winners take home $1M+. There's also a dedicated Product Hunt x The Pitch by Deel leaderboard for each event.

DigitalOcean Deploy is a one-day event focused on what happens when AI hits production. Latency, throughput, cost per token, reliability — all the things that show up the second something hits production.

There will be a fireside chat with NVIDIA’s Kari Briski on agentic AI. Teams from Character, Workato, VAST Data, Arcee, and the vLLM ecosystem will be there breaking down how they are actually running inference at scale plus a first look at what DigitalOcean is building next.

April 28 in San Francisco. Free to attend.

Tinfoil is a private AI chat and inference API from Jules Drean and Sacha Servan-Schreiber — both MIT PhDs who spent years studying trusted hardware and privacy cryptography before building this — plus a former Tor engineer and a Cloudflare cryptographer, running conversations inside hardware secure enclaves so that no one, including Tinfoil, can read them.

🔥 Our Take: Most "private AI" is a privacy policy. This is a different category — hardware enclaves are the same infrastructure that protects bank transactions, and the founders didn't come from AI, they came from security research. The claim isn't "trust us"; it's "here's how you verify it yourself." That's worth paying attention to if you've been self-censoring what you bring to ChatGPT.

AstroGrid — Universe Engine is a browser-based 3D space explorer from Velon Space that renders 119,000 catalogued stars using real NASA JPL orbital data, 14,000 deep-sky objects, and gravitational lensing on black holes — fully client-side, no installation, no signup.

🔥 Our Take: Someone built a physics-accurate flyable universe and put it in a browser tab with no server required. It's not a product for a market; it's closer to a demo that shouldn't exist yet. Open it and see how far you get before you notice you've been flying for twenty minutes.