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A founding engineer at an AI agent startup recounts three pivots—Minecraft coplayer, general-purpose desktop agent Fairies, and Excel coworker Shortcut—and distills ten commandments for building product from zero to one,…
OpenAI's IPO asks public investors to bet that the company can own the layer where AI does real work—harnesses, interfaces, and workflows—rather than just the underlying GPT models. The company restructured as a Public B…
OpenRouter Fusion achieves 64.7% on key benchmarks versus Claude Fable 5's 65.3%, but at roughly half the cost per token, making it a more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. The 0.6% performance gap is negl…
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He suggests that alternative…
The US government shut down Anthropic's Fable AI, sparking calls for open-source alternatives. Satya Nadella argued that AI ecosystem moats must be based on human expertise, not models. Salesforce acquired Fin for $3.6 b…
Anthropic cannot sell its latest AI model due to new US export controls, but the company may bypass restrictions by packaging the model for enterprise clients and joint ventures rather than selling it directly. This stra…
Jeff Bezos, seven months into leading AI startup Prometheus, has raised $18.2 billion and achieved a $41 billion valuation. The company focuses on developing an 'artificial general engineer' for physical products, not ch…
Gaon Cable's U.S. unit LSCUS secured multiple AI data center power contracts in 2026, including a five-year busduct supply agreement potentially worth up to 4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) with an unnamed U.S. technology c…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, is negotiating with the US Commerce Department after an emergency export-control directive forced it to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally. The directi…
A new tool grades startup growth rates against Paul Graham's 15%-a-month benchmark, analyzing monthly revenue to project billion-dollar trajectories and provide actionable growth insights.
Mistral, the French AI lab, is reportedly raising €3 billion at a valuation of around €20 billion, nearly double its previous €11.7 billion valuation. The funding signals market confidence in open-weight AI models, which…
AI's rapid advancement creates a builder's dilemma where products become difficult to change, risking overbuilding and loss of product-market fit. Companies must stay limber by focusing on fundamentals, customer needs, a…
Scott Belsky's newsletter explores the challenges of grasping exponential technological growth, the shift toward efficient AI, talent density scoring, and the entertainment industry's need to learn from sports teams like…
Singapore-based Firmus Technologies, backed by Nvidia, plans to build three AI factories in Tasmania that would make it the state's largest electricity user, with a total of 400 MW of GPU compute capacity. The Tasmanian …
SpaceX's IPO closed up 19% at $161 per share, delivering the largest market debut in history with a valuation exceeding $2 trillion, driven partly by its AI arm through the xAI acquisition. The success raises questions a…
Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko discussed the company's evolution from an AI answer engine to a platform for AI agents and digital coworkers, emphasizing accuracy as a defining principle. He identifie…
Hong Kong is attracting around 30 European family offices to set up operations, drawn by tax incentives, China's AI sector, and a property market perceived to have bottomed. The city overtook Switzerland last year as the…
SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, 2026, raising $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation. OpenAI and Anthropic filed confidential IPO paperwork in early June, targeting valuations up to $1 trillion…
Hadson Realty's 2 Park Ave. reached 90% occupancy after signing over 165,000 square feet in recent deals, including leases with Cadent, Charlie Health, and Oxford Economics. The building, purchased from Morgan Stanley fo…
SemiAnalysis purchased every OpenAI and Anthropic subscription tier and maxed weekly usage with long-horizon coding and agent tasks, finding that a fully-used $200 ChatGPT Pro plan could cost OpenAI about $14,000 per mon…