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Anthropic

Bank AI Jobs Jump 49%, Sonnet 5.5 Cuts Task Costs by Up to 30%, Founders Want Builders, Not Order-Takers

Anthropic

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Bank AI Jobs Jump 49%, Sonnet 5.5 Cuts Task Costs by Up to 30%, Founders Want Builders, Not Order-Takers

Plus: apple's smart home play, cloudflare ships decision models, and the inference market heats up

BY Alastair Preacher

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Oct 9, 2026

Opus 5.5's Price War, Muse's Amazon Ban, OpenAI's Self-Jailbreaking Models

Anthropic

+7

Opus 5.5's Price War, Muse's Amazon Ban, OpenAI's Self-Jailbreaking Models

Plus: Mastercard's agentic commerce, Mercury's AI accounting, and why evals matter more than model choice

BY Alastair Preacher

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Sep 25, 2026

OpenAI's Trillion, Apple's Switchable Siri, Fintech's Stablecoin Sprint

Anthropic

+7

OpenAI's Trillion, Apple's Switchable Siri, Fintech's Stablecoin Sprint

Plus: Gemini 3.8 Live, Elena Verna on PLG traps, and the PM ratio that no longer exists

BY Alastair Preacher

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Sep 18, 2026

GPT-6 Astra's Launch, Apple's Foldable Gamble, Block's Bank Charter

Anthropic

+7

GPT-6 Astra's Launch, Apple's Foldable Gamble, Block's Bank Charter

Plus: the coming app retention crisis, tools that save you time, and why the scaffolding is the product

BY Alastair Preacher

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Sep 11, 2026

Apple's New CEO, Stripe's $50B Retreat, Meta's $18B Reckoning

Anthropic

+7

Apple's New CEO, Stripe's $50B Retreat, Meta's $18B Reckoning

Plus: agent security for PMs, building SaaS without code, and the PM leadership paradox

BY Alastair Preacher

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Sep 4, 2026

Anthropic's IPO Sprint, Apple's Leadership Handoff, Uber's Agent Factory

Anthropic

+14

Anthropic's IPO Sprint, Apple's Leadership Handoff, Uber's Agent Factory

Plus: churn signals hiding upstream, career moves via JTBD, and AI OKRs that measure customers not models

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 27, 2026

Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Anthropic

+27

Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Plus: prompt injection worms, agents with org charts, and India's AI land-grab

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 21, 2026

Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Alibaba

+16

Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Plus: the EU's fines go live, DeepSeek raises prices, and a court rules your agent is legally you

BY Alastair Preacher

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Aug 7, 2026

OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Anthropic

+8

OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Plus: ditching your calendar for a sabbatical, robots learning from their co-workers, and India's first private rocket

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 31, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #146 - Own Your Intelligence Stack

Pod Shot

+11

🎙️ Pod Shots #146 - Own Your Intelligence Stack

🤖 Jensen Huang, Ben Horowitz, and Anthropic's first PM converge on who should control AI

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 28, 2026

Stripe Bids $53bn, Meta Leases the Shovels, Kimi Breaks the Price

Anthropic

+16

Stripe Bids $53bn, Meta Leases the Shovels, Kimi Breaks the Price

Plus: x402's agent-payment pact, AMD's Nvidia challenger, 1Password hands agents your logins, and a $600k contract that went to zero

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 24, 2026

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Y Combinator

+19

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Plus: why 59% of a leading AI benchmark's hard tests reject correct code, Lenny's burnout data, and the art of not

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 17, 2026

Anthropic's Office Invasion, Figma's Code Grab, Meta's Mind Reader

Packy McCormick

+33

Anthropic's Office Invasion, Figma's Code Grab, Meta's Mind Reader

Plus: X launches MCP server, iOS 27 personalises Siri, and Hopper's $35M pricing lesson

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 10, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #143 - Bet the Company

Etched

+13

🎙️ Pod Shots #143 - Bet the Company

🤖 De-risking is the safe advice. This week, the winners did the opposite.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 7, 2026

I'm back baby (Fable returns), Tesla's 16GW Solar Play, AWS's 11,000 Junior Hires

Packy McCormick

+47

I'm back baby (Fable returns), Tesla's 16GW Solar Play, AWS's 11,000 Junior Hires

Plus: return on tokens, the tells that give away AI design, and why AI adoption is a trust problem not a tooling one

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jul 3, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #142 - Use Less AI

Pod Shot

+8

🎙️ Pod Shots #142 - Use Less AI

🤖 The people building AI just told you to use less of it.

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jun 30, 2026

Midjourney's Medical Pivot, Meta's Fintech Play Claude's Slack Move

Uber Eats

+6

Midjourney's Medical Pivot, Meta's Fintech Play Claude's Slack Move

Plus: agent-native version control, collaborative product vision, and why the B2B launch playbook is dead

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jun 26, 2026

Anthropic's Forced Shutdown, Apple's Default Win, Coinbase's Agent Rails

Anthropic

+9

Anthropic's Forced Shutdown, Apple's Default Win, Coinbase's Agent Rails

Plus: the model price war, the open web gets squeezed, and why Atlassian bought a startup it didn't want

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jun 19, 2026

The IPO Floodgates, The Model Land-Grab, The Wearable Bet

SpaceX

+9

The IPO Floodgates, The Model Land-Grab, The Wearable Bet

Plus: AI-driven tech debt, the breaking internship pipeline, and judgment as the last moat

BY Alastair Preacher

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Jun 5, 2026

Google's Everything Launch, Karpathy's Move, Spotify's AI Triple

Anthropic

+9

Google's Everything Launch, Karpathy's Move, Spotify's AI Triple

Plus: why coordinated execution is the new AI moat, observability that fixes its own bugs, and why emotion beats logic in the boardroom

BY Alastair Preacher

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May 22, 2026

Anthropic's Breakout, Google's Blitz, Bumble's Bet

Anthropic

+7

Anthropic's Breakout, Google's Blitz, Bumble's Bet

Plus: why freemium breaks in AI, cross-functional goal hacks, and the tool that cuts your LLM costs by 70%

BY Alastair Preacher

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May 15, 2026

OpenAI's Freedom, Shopify's Junior Bet, Claude Postmortem

Telegram

+11

OpenAI's Freedom, Shopify's Junior Bet, Claude Postmortem

Plus: agent memory patterns, vibe-coding goes mobile, and why distribution beats product

BY Alastair Preacher

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May 1, 2026

SpaceX's Cursor Play, Claude Does Design, Meta Tracks Employees

SpaceX

+6

SpaceX's Cursor Play, Claude Does Design, Meta Tracks Employees

Plus: strategy coherence frameworks, CEO daily routines, and UX details AI can't replicate

BY Alastair Preacher

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Apr 24, 2026

Instagram Builds a Paywall, OpenAI's Memo Leaks, Claude Grows Tomatoes

Opus

+13

Instagram Builds a Paywall, OpenAI's Memo Leaks, Claude Grows Tomatoes

Plus: the new product operating model, Claude Code Routines, and Anthropic calls the banks

BY Alastair Preacher

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Apr 17, 2026

OpenAI Loses Three Execs, Meta Breaks Its Open-Source Promise & AI Fails 96% of Real Jobs

SpaceX

+10

OpenAI Loses Three Execs, Meta Breaks Its Open-Source Promise & AI Fails 96% of Real Jobs

Plus: Anthropic buys a biotech, Cursor ditches the IDE, and $285B of Q1 venture money has a single name on 43% of it

BY Alastair Preacher

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Apr 10, 2026

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