Sierra is acquiring Takeoff, an AI agent runtime startup that grew from $0 to nearly 8 figures in annual recurring revenue within 14 months. The combined company will build a new platform called Horiz…
Clay engineer Alex Komoroske published an internal policy on acceptable AI writing use, arguing that as of 2026, AI models cannot produce lossless transformations of natural-language text and that une…
Anthropic's Claude Code can be used with Clay's data enrichment platform to build an automated pipeline that finds prospects, enriches profiles, and writes personalized cold outreach emails at scale, …
Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding environment, can be paired with Clay, a lead enrichment platform, to automate lead generation and cold outreach by orchestrating data collection, enrichment, an…
Spam filters and email whitelists both fail against AI-generated cold email, which now evades traditional filters 40% more often than template-based spam. Whitelists block unknown senders but require …
Marketing teams are rapidly adopting AI tools like ChatGPT, Clay, and n8n to automate workflows and analyze data, but this exposes sensitive customer information to third-party systems, expanding orga…
Clay, the company that created the 'GTM engineer' role and built the go-to-market IDE, grew from $1M to $100M ARR in two years by betting on workflow intelligence over proprietary data. Its $5B valuat…
Gmail's spam filter fails to block AI-generated cold emails because the filter was designed for mass-blast, low-quality spam, not personalized, grammatically correct messages from authenticated domain…
AI-powered cold email tools have flooded Gmail inboxes, with AI-generated spam rising 1,265% since ChatGPT's release. Traditional spam filters fail because AI personalizes messages to bypass detection…
Clay, an AI-powered prospecting tool, delivered strong results in a live test, correctly identifying CEOs for ten companies and finding valid work emails for nine of ten leads. However, its high cost …
Airtop, an AI agent platform founded in 2020, automates sales and marketing workflows by enabling users to build code-first agents that interact with websites and services. The company has raised appr…
Spam accounts for 45.6% of global email traffic, and AI-generated cold outreach is worsening the problem. Google's reCAPTCHA protects web forms from bots but cannot gate incoming emails, while email C…
Microsoft reported blocking over 156,000 phishing attempts per minute in 2024, but AI-generated cold emails still evade content filters. Email CAPTCHA for Outlook intercepts unknown senders and requir…
Carles Reina, employee #4 at ElevenLabs, built a go-to-market system that drove $500M in revenue. The AI Corner details an 8-agent GTM stack with operator rules, three workflows, and a 30-day rollout …
Bryant Chou, former Webflow CTO and co-founder, raised $27 million in seed funding for Ploy, an AI marketing platform that automates website updates and growth operations after launch. The platform in…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai executed a 10-move restructuring in 18 months after ChatGPT's launch, merging Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind and reorganizing the company to deploy AI products. Picha…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from …
A free AI growth kit offering over $4,000 in startup credits, tactical GTM playbooks, and pre-built AI agent workflows is being widely shared among founders and operators. The resource, which includes…