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ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries, and "Build With AI" Hiring Demand Up 51%

Plus: how Anthropic risk-tiers its code review, an IBM paper on why RAG tricks don't stack, Radaric reviewed, 5 startups funded yesterday, and quick hits.

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Flint puts a 40B Coding Model on a Laptop, and the median AI paid user pays $25 a month

Plus: why AI won't overtake search in 2026, per a 2025 EMARKETER forecast, cheap-model guardrails that rival frontier judges, Fastlane 2.0 reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday.

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Otter's $320M Non-Equity Raise and How to Run Your Own AI Credits Programme

Plus: why more memory can make agents worse, Meta's thin-orchestrator pattern, Onepin for AI voiceovers, and 5 startups funded yesterday.

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Only 13% of CIOs say AI has paid off

Automated evals that lift accuracy from 78.6% to 90.5% and an open model for text-heavy graphics

Oct 20, 2026

Meta Rewrites Its Crawler Terms, the 30-Day Window Where Upsells Work Up to 10x Better, and a Router That Cut Median Agent Cost 64%

Plus: Later's 89% jump in creator payouts, why coding agents fix more bugs with whole files, ngram 2.0 reviewed, and 6 startups funded since Friday.

Oct 20, 2026

DeepSeek's $0.75 Search API, 71.5% of AI Tokens Go Open-Weight, and How Reddit Lost Its Grip on ChatGPT's Answers

Plus: the cache trick that cut an agent's cost 4x, why AI judges flip their verdicts, OpenSEO, and 5 startups funded this week.

Oct 18, 2026

27M Creator Businesses, the 75% AI Trust Premium, and a new LinkedIn creator tool

Approval gates that make your agent ask before it executes, new research on agents that tune their own harness, and Pancake, the outbound stack your AI agent can run

Oct 18, 2026

Claude's One-Click Revolution, 272M Kids Without Schools, and the $1.7B Gene-Editing Bet ARK Won't Stop Buying

Desktop Extensions just killed MCP configuration headaches, AI-powered education could unlock billions, and a battered biotech is down 50% with Phase 3 data coming—here's what builders, investors, and sellers need to know.

Jan 28, 2026

Clawdbot's 180 Million Token Week, Archer's $126M Airport Bet, and Why 64% of Media Execs are betting on AI to automate back-office

The open-source AI assistant running on a Mac mini is replacing cloud subscriptions. The air taxi company bought its own airport. And the Reuters Institute survey reveals where media's AI budgets are actually going. Here's how solopreneurs can ride all three waves.

Jan 27, 2026

Video Platforms' 21% AI Slop Problem, $117M in Zombie Revenue, and Why "Soft Adventure" can be your next creator play

The algorithm is now one-fifth synthetic, glamping is the new luxury, and your SaaS waitlist is sitting on untapped G2 gold.

Jan 23, 2026

Civitai's Style Stock Market, The 110% Analog Surge, and Why Your Next Sale Comes From a $0.99 PDF

The Creator Economy just financialised aesthetic influence, Pinterest proves slow is the new fast, and we're building a zero-cost newsletter engine from Substack's own leaderboard.

Jan 21, 2026

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