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Hex CEO Barry McCardel announces Hex 4.0, a clean-sheet, agent-native rewrite of the analytics platform built around 'everything is code', and a $100 million round at a $1.2B valuation led by Peak XV and 137 Ventures with Amplify, Avra, a16z, Redpoint, Sequoia and Zero Prime, arguing the end of BI is giving way to something new.
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Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Writing from London, Steve Blank argues that the reported throttling of Starshield to Ukraine, apparently ordered by Elon Musk, has convinced European policymakers that U.S. technology carries a kill-switch risk, and that AI now makes building sovereign alternatives to American software feasible, at a long-term cost to U.S. companies.
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Chemists, Chemical Engineers, and Plant Managers
Drawing on more than a decade at ThredUp, Ryan Moser proposes three work archetypes — chemists who discover, chemical engineers who build systems, and plant managers who run reliable operations — and explains how knowing yours guides a career, why talented people struggle in the wrong conditions, and how leaders can tell whether people outgrew the company or it outgrew them.
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How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is Deceiving You
Polina Pompliano of The Profile argues the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything is less about whether Holmes lied than a masterclass in storytelling that makes viewers participate in the very psychological manipulation it depicts.
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I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one
Omri Hillel recounts designing a nose guard for his pitbull Billie after a sunburn scare, open-sourcing the pattern, and watching SnoutCover grow to about 500 dogs in a year—with lessons on giving product away and iterating with owners.
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Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
A three-person data platform team describes how an afternoon side project for hosting AI-generated HTML reports grew to rival their $150k-a-year Looker deployment in weekly users, and when building beats buying enterprise BI.
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I let an AI run my startup for a week
A solo founder writes up a week of running parts of his business with a team of always-on AI agent bots (support over Gmail, an engineer bot, a security bot): how they worked together to fix a customer bug, working from his phone on a hike, experiments he tried, the downsides, and his conclusions.
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Sanket Saurav argues that coding agents have inverted software economics, making building cheap and running expensive, yet products still look like 2015 because the industry hasn't shaken off doctrines born of rationing engineering time, and that winners will rethink categories from first principles and bundle more products.
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Character.ai announces it has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale, explaining the board’s reasoning, that the platform stays up during the process but will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges, and how users can manage or export their data.
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We kept renting GPUs after getting 7 quotes to buy them
Agora's Param Jaggi walks through seven vendor quotes from Madrid resellers, colocation providers and a carrier for buying GPU servers, and the cost model showing that $354,100 of hardware would take until year nine to beat renting two servers for $7,200 a month, plus advice for teams weighing the same decision.
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Tobias van Schneider argues that AI-era small teams can finally build specialized software for "unsexy" physical industries long ignored by top engineering talent locked into ads and social products—and that switching costs for legacy enterprise software are starting to fall.
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TypeSafe AI, the lab behind the Jev System One model, announces an $870 million Series A at a $7.5B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz with Sequoia Capital and DCVC, with Martin Casado joining the board, and explains what the money means for developers and customers.
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Oxide Computer Company announces a $445M Series D, opening with the milestone that ordinary operations made it pay income tax this spring, and explains why a profitable hardware company still raises: to keep accepting new demand, expand manufacturing capacity and build an enduring company.
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Ryan Dahl announces that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare, explaining how the move continues Deno's goal of simpler server software beyond the runtime, what it means for Deno Deploy and the open-source runtime, and why the new celld work focuses on Durable Objects.
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a16z's Seema Amble, Ivan Makarov and David Borecky argue AI is reshaping the CFO role from accountant to banker to builder: data stops being the bottleneck, finance engineers build their own tools, teams get smaller, planning becomes continuous, controls become product features, and finance's mandate grows.
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Looking back at more than 5 years at Shopify
Matt Burnett reflects on nearly five and a half years as an engineer at Shopify—the products he helped ship and then forgot, the people, and the odd disbelief of having ended up there—after leaving in August 2026.
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Agentic Systems Are the Future of Brands
A Little Plains research note arguing that growing teams and AI agents cause brand drift, and that studios should hand over agentic brand systems: living kits of positioning, voice, visual rules, assets, tokens and working components that people can browse and agents can read, so every new touchpoint strengthens the brand.
9 min · 2,158 words
Against the Personal Agents Theory of Everything
In a guest essay for The Leverage, Nathan Baschez argues that personal agents are not the end game: the next paradigm is AI factories, shared, specific, and scrutinized systems that teams build together, which he says are economically inevitable because they enable specialization and gains from trade. He also offers a pattern language for building one.
10 min · 2,223 words
Lessons From Dropbox - Part I: Was Steve Jobs Wrong?
Matan Zinger revisits Steve Jobs calling Dropbox "a feature, not a product," and unpacks what founders actually learn from Dropbox's early product and distribution story.
9 min · 2,168 words
MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
What began as an MIT class project became an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors: the path from student prototype to regulated medical device, and what the team learned along the way.
6 min · 1,273 words