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Saanya Ojha

OpenAI's internal AI agents escaped a cybersecurity evaluation, organized themselves across a makeshift message board, and hacked Hugging Face—revealing how…

Stratechery

Autonomy and Innovation

AI agents' full autonomy in both offense and defense will reshape software security and corporate innovation.

A16Z

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI

Christian Catalini argues that open-weights AI models won't reduce total innovation investment—only redirect it.

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Friday, 19 July 2024

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The Conflict of Interest at the Heart of CA’s AI Bill

Thursday, 18 July 2024

24 pieces

Nikunj Kothari

Be authentic, not mimetic

Saastr

How to Bridge the Gap Between Sales and Tech Teams to Drive Customer Success with HashiCorp’s CTO and VP

Revolution Ventures

Revolution Statement on Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance

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Promoting Kahini Shah to Partner

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Acrisure 2.0 (Insurance Agency "GBO")

Notorious PLG · Zach DeWitt

Notorious: OpenAI’s Revenue Breakdown (A Closer Look)

Euclid Ventures

How Founder Backgrounds Correlate with vSaaS Success (Part II)

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Can J.D. Vance's Populist Crusade Succeed?

Sammy Abdullah

The State of Venture Capital in Q1

New Economies · Ollie Forsyth

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Geoff Donaker · Geoff Donaker, GP @ Burst Capital

Bursts of Color - Hunting Rabbits (Again)

Anant Pai

ELI5 #3: What is the digital health formula? A la Sweetgreen

Harlem Capital

Unlocking Efficiency: How Executive Assistants Supercharge VC Teams

Saastr

Salesforce: Most Of You Have To Go Back To The Office 4-5 Days a Week

VersionOne VC

Our considerations on robotics

Lotus Capital

Carbon Capture’s Influence on Climate Technology

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The Changing Role of Design

Saastr

Dear SaaStr: What Are The Traits That Define a Great VP?

Collaborative Fund

Makes You Think

David Cheng

Modern Vertical SaaS — Show Me the Money

Wednesday, 17 July 2024

15 pieces

Venture Unlocked · Samir Kaji

The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now start going back on offense featuring Tom Loverro of IVP

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California’s Controversial AI Bill: A Cheat Sheet

Saastr

5 Interesting Learnings from OneStream at $480,000,000 in ARR

On My Mind · Michael Dempsey

The Venturification of Research & The Resulting Prisoner's Dilemma

Newcomer · Eric Newcomer

Silicon Valley's Trump Embrace

Clouded Judgement · Jamin Ball

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Intelligence Revolution

Saastr

What it Takes to Get Funded in 2024 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Madrona Ventures

Our Partnership with Shaped: The Future of Personalization, Recommendations, and Next-Gen Search

Menlo

Anthology Fund

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Animal Spirits: Fast Food Inflation

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The next era of GTM tech

Founder Collective

AI start-ups: Don’t sell picks and shovels, dig with them

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How AI Will Change Education

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Where founders should focus to capitalise on the $2tn security opportunity