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Daily Edition · Page 9

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

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ANTHROPIC ANNUAL REVENUE REPORTEDLY REACHES $4 BILLION

Anthropic hit $4 billion in annual revenue just as two leaders of its Claude Code product jumped to Cursor, one of Anthropic's biggest customers. The timing matters because AI companies are desperately trying to retain talent with salaries up to $690,000. Meta just paid $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale AI and poached its CEO. When your biggest customers can afford to steal your best people, vertical integration suddenly looks less like a moat and more like a feeding ground.

pymnts.com · 3 min

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THE $1B LAND GRAB FOR LEGAL TECH'S FUTURE

Clio bought vLex for $1 billion this week, shortly after Harvey expanded its LexisNexis partnership. Both moves reveal the same strategy - owning the full legal workflow from research to billing. The interesting part is how quickly legal data got locked up. Three companies control most legal data: Westlaw partnered with CoCounsel, Lexis with Harvey, and Clio now owns vLex. That concentration means smaller legal tech companies face a choice: find a dance partner or become one.

attorneyintelligence.ai · 4 min

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THE $4.6T SERVICE-AS-SOFTWARE OPPORTUNITY: LESSONS FROM YEAR ONE

AI-native startups are creating Services-as-Software companies to automate entire roles, positioning integration and outcomes as key differentiators over feature sets. Differentiation now relies on deeply embedding AI into customer environments, leading to a shift where pre-sales merge with post-sales, requiring extensive customization even before contracts are signed. Pricing models are evolving from access-based to outcome-based, aligning costs with the value AI delivers, signaling a major shift towards speed-to-value in a $4.6 trillion market opportunity.

foundationcapital.com · 11 min

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THE ART OF COLD-EMAILING A BILLIONAIRE

Over half of billionaires have responded to this founder's cold emails, including Travis Kalanick and Eric Lefkofsky. Before writing, spend 90% of your effort figuring out the trade: what you want and what makes it worthwhile for them. Then hit four principles: establish competency fast, make your ask clear with the value to them, transparently state your self-interest, and show extra effort beyond the email. Most people think cold email is about persuasion when it's actually about understanding what the recipient values.

wanderingfounder.substack.com · 5 min

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IS CHATGPT REALLY ROTTING OUR BRAINS?

MIT researchers found that students using ChatGPT showed less brain activity and couldn't remember a single sentence from essays they'd just written, while those writing without AI remembered 89% correctly. However, the study had major flaws: just 54 students writing 20-minute essays in a lab doesn't reflect real-world AI use. The key is staying mentally engaged - use AI to challenge your ideas, not replace your thinking entirely.

nesslabs.com · 6 min

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