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U.S. tech stocks pulled back sharply with the sector falling 2.5% this week, led by selloffs of Nvidia and Palantir as investors grow wary of AI-driven gains. The drop came shortly after the release of MIT research showing 95% of organizations get no return on AI investments and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggesting that AI investment was in a bubble.
Anthropic has formed a Higher Education Advisory Board, chaired by former Yale president Rick Levin, to guide Claude's development for teaching and research.
AI companies secured $118 billion by mid-August, with funding increasingly concentrated among eight firms, including OpenAI's $40 billion raise. SoftBank, Greenoaks, and prominent corporate backers like Meta and Google are driving the largest investments. U.S. venture industry dry powder is declining, reflecting the intense competition and high valuations in the AI sector.
Your homepage alone stops working once your product does more than two things well - that's when you need dedicated product pages. These pages sit under 'Product' or 'Solutions' in your nav bar and come in three flavors: feature pages (how specific features work), use-case pages (how to accomplish specific goals), and customer-segment pages (tailored for specific audiences like "for Marketing Teams"). The most common structure includes a hero, social proof, benefits and features combo, how it works section, case studies, additional resources, FAQ, and CTA.
None of the popular prioritization frameworks (RICE, ICE, or MoSCoW) explicitly address how time affects value, which is bizarre because timing is everything in strategy - if you're racing to be first to 30% market share to "tip" the market, every month matters massively, but if you're adding upsell features, missing this year just means trying next year. We've been trained to see urgency as anti-strategic, associating it with desperate salespeople demanding features or last-ditch quarterly saves, when actually many companies complaining about "no strategy" are trapped in regrettable reactive urgency because the ship sailed years ago.
Jesse Coors-Blankenship and Gregg Hill, founders turned VCs, focus on scaling deep tech companies like SandboxAQ by solving real-world problems and securing smart capital. They emphasize the importance of picking investors who understand the technology and leveraging anchor investors to attract a strong syndicate. Effective scaling requires educating the market on innovations, aligning vision with execution, and demonstrating progress through clear milestones.
Customers now get recommendations from AI. Be in those answers.
Stop bots and fraud without slowing real users.
Automates Salesforce updates from emails and calls so sales reps never touch CRM again.
What would actually happen if you stopped trying to be productive for just one moment? This writer's therapist asked her that question, and she became furious because the answer terrified her. She'd turned creativity from joy into a chain around her neck, clawing for likes and relevance, measuring worth entirely by output.
Slow Ventures' Creator Fund, aimed at supporting creators in building sustainable businesses, invested $2 million in Jonathan Katz-Moses, a woodworking content creator with a significant online following. This is the first investment from the fund since its launch. The investment will help Katz-Moses expand his tool business, product development, and educational content on YouTube.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned. The company's leadership will now report directly to Microsoft's CoreAI team, led by Jay Parikh. GitHub, acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, will integrate further with Microsoft's AI platform efforts without appointing a new CEO. Dohmke plans to guide the transition until the end of 2025 before pursuing new opportunities.
Seed rounds in the 99th percentile are now hitting $161 million valuations - that's not a typo, and it's 123% higher than even the 95th percentile.
Jack Dorsey ran both Twitter and Square simultaneously using one weird trick - he themed his days.
Demo environments are where sales deals go to die.