An accountant won a big jackpot on Kalshi by betting against DOGE
A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.
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Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.
More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before
AI has brought the startup world the rise of startups that instantly hit multimillion ARR. Stripe revealed some data that shows how common this has become.
Stripe’s valuation soars 74% to $159 billion
Stripe has conducted another tender offer, where employees sell shares. Investors include Thrive Capital, Coatue, a16z, and Stripe itself
Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
It’s a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox
The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it’s really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.
With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: at least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic
While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.
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Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe
“The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: ‘go get a mentor,’ and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that’s ridiculously…