Meta’s new Muse Wonder model: good for AI agents, bad for design Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: DX —Engineering intelligence for the AI era Jira Product Discovery —Prioritize with insights, build with confidence Claire puts Meta’s new Muse Wonder model through nearly 20 real-world tasks covering agentic work, coding, writing, design, and video editing. She expl…
Brooke Lacey has been making videos since before Facebook had video, and she built a TikTok audience of more than 290,000 by learning to cut short-form videos herself. With over 25 years in tech, she now builds her own apps, including Zosha, a free mobile app for learning AI. In this episode, Brooke walks me through the Claude Code, FFmpeg, and Whisper workflow that edits her TikToks in about 15 s…
At 10:08 a.m. on April 7, 2025, U.S. stocks were deep in the red. Then what looked like good news arrived: A claim began circulating on X that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, had said President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every country except China. Market-focused accounts quickly amplified it. CNBC repeated the unconfirmed claim…
With Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin This week’s 20VC x SaaStr covered a lot. Anthropic moved its IPO back a month. OpenAI’s internal forecast put total burn through 2030 at $278 billion. Meta shipped the first consumer AI product that competes head-on with ChatGPT and added about $100 billion in market cap in a week. TypeSafe launched Jev, a “System One” model that only returns…
Nancy Lapid / Reuters : Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries — Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered …
Bloomberg : Alibaba says it plans to build its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, amid escalating US-China AI tensions — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is accelerating its data center expansion in Europe and the Middle East, propelling …
Andrew Webster / The Verge : Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching “a billion people” — The latest changes at Microsoft's gaming division signal a further retreat from the Xbox brand.
Anna Washenko / Engadget : Discord rolls out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity levels, more — It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.
Anna Tong / Forbes : Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised $100M+ at a $4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruiting business with $7 million in ARR. It's now generating over $500 million in ARR and two xAI cofounders invested its latest round.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital — Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. — Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round.
In June 2026 Cloudflare reported that machines had overtaken people as the source of most requests to web pages, 57.5 per cent against 42.5 , a crossover its chief executive had not expected until late 2027. In the same quarter Cursor, a coding agent that did not exist four years ago, passed $2 billion in annualized revenue , while Claude Code reached $2.5 billion nine months after launch. Put the…