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AI ADOPTION IS NOW THE CLEAREST DIVIDING LINE IN STARTUP ECONOMICS

40% of companies heavily using AI say inflation actually _helped_ their business this year… only 12% of non-AI adopters say the same. That contrast turned up everywhere in Mercury's survey of 1,500 early-stage founders & builders: the companies leveraging AI the most are raising more, hiring differently, and reporting a different macroeconomic picture. Read Mercury's new report to explore: * The 31-point confidence gap between heavy AI adopters and everyone else * What startups spend on AI each month * What junior hiring looks like at AI-forward companies and beyond

TWO NUMBERS EXPLAIN WHY MILLIONS STOPPED TYPING.

Wispr Flow [5] is 4x faster than your keyboard, and 89% of messages go out with zero edits. Speak naturally in any app and Flow delivers clean, formatted text where your cursor lives. * NO CLEANUP. Flow strips filler, fixes grammar, and punctuates as you speak. * WORKS EVERYWHERE. Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android. Gmail, Slack, Notion, Cursor. System-level, no plugins. * ONE HOTKEY. Hold to talk, release, send. USED BY TEAMS AT OPENAI, VERCEL, AND CLAY. FREE TO START.

[WEBINAR] HOW TO STOP BABYSITTING YOUR AGENTS

Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system is the hard part. You end up wasting time and tokens in the correction loops. More MCPs, rules, and bigger context windows give agents access to information, but not understanding. The teams pulling ahead have a context layer to give agents exactly what they need for the task at hand. Join us live on Sep 2 (FREE) [5]to see: * Where teams get stuck on the AI maturity curve and why common fixes fall short * How a context layer solves for quality, efficiency, and cost * Live demo: the same task with and without a context layer

MONETIZE 2026: THE STRIPE CONFERENCE FOR LEADERS SHAPING AI PRICING

AI has redefined software unit economics. As inference costs shift and margin pressures mount, standard pricing playbooks are failing, and founders are left to navigate unpredictable costs while scaling product-led growth and enterprise sales all at once. Monetize [5] is the summit for leaders shaping the future of pricing and monetization in the AI era. Learn what's actually working from leaders including: * Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI, Replit * Karan Parekh, Head of Finance, Clay * Aisling O'Reilly, Director of Product Monetization, Fin * Ryan Campbell, Senior Director of Strategic Finance, Snowflake Join us September 9–10 in Sonoma, California.

BUILD THE DASHBOARD YOUR CFO WILL BOOKMARK USING GEMINI: A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP BY RAMP

Your CFO wants a clear, compelling story, but that normally means you'll be spending hours on manual cleanup, formula-checking, and formatting. Join Christian Martinez, who has trained 20,000+ finance execs on AI [5], on Monday, August 31st as he builds a full CFO dashboard from scratch using Gemini, to: * Clean and consolidate data * Perform automated variance analysis and identify key business drivers

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