As model moats fall, the rise of consumer AI is now here

Luke Farritor is a gem and a joy to work with. He's kind, humble, and a technical savage (he turned these vulcanized Mt Vesuvius scrolls into fundamental contributions to our cultural history)

have a portfolio company that is growing rapidly (60%+ MoM) and is looking to bring on a Founding Engineer (Python/ML) it's a rare chance to join one of the most talented teams i have ever worked with. DM me your GitHub if interested in learning more

1/ Mercury 2025 Annual Letter: Our vision is that banking* should do more than hold your money. It should include the cards and software you need to actually use your money. In 2024, we took huge strides to bring that vision to life: * Grew transaction volume to $156bn. *

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Good new wellness rewards at Chase Sapphire. 1 free year of Calm 50% off Lifeforce (blood draw of biomarkers + health consultation) $600 off a Prenuvo scan (whole body scan after discount is $1900) Anyone have strong feelings about Prenuvo? I am planning to do it.

1/ How do the best startup teams hire well? Every company that finds product-market fit has customers to support, fires to handle. But if they don’t prioritize hiring, they fall into a vicious cycle, increasingly behind and unable to scale.

We’re hiring founding engineers Parahelp (YC S24)! Mads and I pivoted to Parahelp mid-batch during yc s24 and have since grown extremely fast. With Parahelp, we’re building support agents for top software companies like Perplexity, Replit, HeyGen, Framer, and more. We’re

Another step towards building a generational company. 200k customers, $500M in annual revenue and the bank of record for startups. And just getting started. So much that immad and team will build on top of this foundation over the coming decade. 🔥🚀

Delighted to publicly launch @Stylus_Medicine today to program the human body into a cell therapy factory to fight cancer. It's a privilege to work with Emile and Jason as CEO/CSO of Stylus and our earliest believers Josh Resnick/Ness Bermingham from RA Capital + Khosla Ventures

We just launched Notion AI for Work. It’s not just smarter — it actually knows your team, your docs, your decisions. Feels like magic, but it’s built for real work. Hope you like it!

Launching on the noisiest day just means we raise the bar. We’re upping the ante: shipping > drama. A few Eleven v3 examples from yesterday ↓

The day has finally come! Speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷Korean, and 🇮🇹Italian as well! And I'm not talking about memorizing vocab in a dopamine machine, I'm talking about good old fashioned spoken

focus, focus, focus... ElevenLabs could have been roadkill for foundation models, but instead they're one of the fastest-growing AI companies on the planet thanks to staying laser-focused on audio Mati Staniszewski discusses specialization as a strategy, their viral moments,

Congrats to the Framer team on the launch & congrats on the insider led round at $2B. ~$50M ARR, targeting ~$100M by EOY.

July Product Update at ElevenLabs. We spent July improving reliability and strengthening the Conversational AI platform and its ecosystem, while keeping most of our focus on laying the groundwork for some of our biggest releases coming later in August and September.

General Matter is bringing uranium enrichment back to the United States, starting at the site where the U.S. enrichment industry was born. We’ve signed a lease with the Department of Energy to establish the nation’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed uranium enrichment

NEW: OpenAI just released gpt-oss, its first open-weight models since GPT-2. The 120B model nearly matches o3 on HealthBench, beating GPT-4o and o4-mini -- making it OpenAI’s most efficient model yet. Big step toward local, low-cost clinical AI.

📣Calling all builders. Incredible hackathon coming up next week in Stockholm with ⁦Lovable⁩ ⁦Anton Osika – eu/acc⁩ and ⁦Project Europe⁩ 20 Teams. 20 Hours. €20,000 prize.

Congrats OpenAI! Some thoughts from testing the new GPT-5 models Speak over the past several weeks: - Significant leap in the reasoning frontier - your strong assumption now should be that it can crush most real-world complex tasks across a giant context window/dump, and if it