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Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min read · Members
Sam and Dario Sell Legroom
The ten smartest AI models carry only 6% of the traffic on an open platform.
Oct 16, 2026 · 7 min read · Members
Founders Who Only Date Sequoia
YC founders want Sequoia or nothing. Sequoia wrote a $1 billion check to someone else.
Oct 13, 2026 · 8 min read · Members
Character.ai Is Bankrupt
Silicon Valley's golden child didn't live to see its fifth birthday.
Oct 9, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Is Abusing An AI Abuse?
The secret behind the viral AI torture chamber.
Oct 2, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
Muse's 24 days
The secret behind the year's fastest-growing AI agent
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 min read · Members
World Model is A Waiting Room
Welcome back, AI Enthusiasts! $2.3B went into companies calling themselves world models this year. Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li raised a billion dollars each on
Sep 18, 2026 · 10 min read · Members
The Labs Begged. Nobody Paused
Three labs asked the industry to slow down. The market has already answered.
Sep 17, 2026 · 10 min read
The First Agent Artifact Cloud
The next era assumes there is nobody there.
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