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2025.08.13
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UPDATES TO CHATGPT

Users can now choose between Auto, Fast, and Thinking modes for GPT-5, rate limits are now 3,000 messages per week with GPT-5 Thinking, 4o is back in the model picker for all paid users by default, and OpenAI is working on an update to GPT-5's personality to make it feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying as GPT-4o.

2025.08.13
threadreaderapp.com1 min readTLDR AI

SPOT ETH ETFS TOP $1B IN DAILY NET INFLOWS FOR FIRST TIME

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded over $1.02 billion in daily net inflows on Monday, their highest single-day total to date, led by BlackRock's ETHA and Fidelity's FETH. The milestone pushes total inflows since May to $10.83 billion, signaling rising institutional conviction in Ethereum's role as a foundational asset for DeFi and Web3. Ethereum's price has increased 45% over the past month, further fueled by growing TradFi treasury allocations and favorable regulatory momentum.

2025.08.13
links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min readTLDR Crypto

QUBIC CLAIMS MAJORITY CONTROL OF MONERO HASHRATE

The Qubic mining pool, led by former IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, claims to control over 51% of Monero's hashrate, potentially enabling it to reorganize blocks, censor transactions, and execute double-spend attacks on the privacy-focused blockchain. The project's hashrate share surged from under 2% in May to over 25% by late July through a "useful proof-of-work" model that converts Monero mining rewards into USDT to buy and burn QUBIC tokens. While Ivancheglo frames this as a stress test to help Monero prepare for future threats, industry experts, including Ledger's CTO, have warned of a live 51% attack in progress, with some questioning Qubic's economic model and claims. Monero's price has declined 6.65% in 24 hours and 16% over the past week amid the controversy and security concerns.

2025.08.13
coindesk.com5 min readTLDR Crypto

CIRCLE TO LAUNCH LAYER 1 BLOCKCHAIN ARC

Circle has announced plans to launch Arc, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that will use its USDC stablecoin as the native gas token, with a public testnet expected this fall. The enterprise-focused chain is designed for stablecoin payments, foreign exchange, and capital markets applications. It features sub-second settlement, optional privacy, and interoperability with other blockchains. Circle, the second-largest stablecoin issuer with $65 billion in USDC supply, joins competitor Tether in developing stablecoin-focused blockchain infrastructure. The announcement coincided with Circle's Q2 earnings report, which showed 53% revenue growth to $658 million. The company's stock grew 6.2% in pre-market trading following the news.

2025.08.13
links.tldrnewsletter.com4 min readTLDR Crypto

HERITAGE DISTILLING AND STORY LAUNCH $360M $IP TOKEN RESERVE

Heritage Distilling (Nasdaq: CASK) is allocating $82M from a $220M PIPE raise to buy $IP tokens from Story Foundation, marking a16z's first Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) deal and Cantor's first underwriting of a non-BTC/ETH/SOL treasury firm. Framed as a public AI infrastructure play, Story will use proceeds to repurchase $IP on the open market within 90 days. The move signals Stage 3 of DATs, onchain treasuries merging with public equity and AI narratives.

2025.08.13
threadreaderapp.com2 min readTLDR Crypto

STRIPE'S BLOCKCHAIN VISION: REPLACING THE CARD NETWORK ENTIRELY

With its acquisition of Bridge and Privy, Stripe is building out a full-stack crypto payments stack, topped off by its own L1 blockchain. Stripe's wallet (via Privy), stablecoin infra (via Bridge), and L1 could bypass traditional card networks entirely, unlocking direct stablecoin payments, programmable subscriptions, and DeFi yield on merchant float. If successful, Stripe will shift from a payment processor to an on-chain payment network.

2025.08.13
x.com1 min readTLDR Crypto

COINBASE REVIVES STABLECOIN FUNDING PROGRAM FOR DEFI

Coinbase is reviving its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund, originally launched in 2019, to boost stablecoin liquidity across decentralized finance protocols through its asset management arm. The program begins with capital deployments in USDC and EURC stablecoins on platforms including Aave, Morpho, Kamino, and Jupiter, with broader rollouts planned after initial testing. The original fund successfully supported early DeFi platforms like Uniswap, Compound, and dYdX in establishing USDC as the dominant stablecoin in the sector. This revival comes as DeFi assets have nearly doubled to $200 billion since April, though the sector remains below its 2021 peak despite accelerating growth amid favorable crypto market conditions.

2025.08.13
coindesk.com6 min readTLDR Crypto

HYPERLIQUID EYES PREDICTION PERP MARKETS WITH HIP-3

Hyperliquid's proposed HIP-3 design would turn static prediction markets into high-leverage perpetuals with shared liquidity and permissionless market creation. Binary markets like TRUMPWIN (shown in the chart spiking to $1.00) come with severe jump risks at expiry, requiring safeguards like liquidation bands and leverage decay. Scalar markets are safer near-term targets, offering smoother pricing and proportional losses and paving the way for a new class of high-frequency event-based trading.

2025.08.13
x.com2 min readTLDR Crypto

EXTENDED DEX LAUNCHES ON STARKNET WITH 100X LEVERAGE

Perpetuals DEX Extended, led by former Revolut execs, has launched on Starknet with over 50 pairs and up to 100x leverage. The move from StarkEx to Starknet aims to boost user experience for EVM-compatible wallets while maintaining high throughput. With $319M in daily volumes and 70% recent APR, the launch showcases how fintech-grade DeFi is scaling through zk-rollups.

2025.08.13
links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min readTLDR Crypto

AAVE PASSES CIRCLE, NOW #2 BY TVL

Aave has overtaken Circle to become the second-largest crypto business by total value locked, now holding over $65 billion in user assets.

2025.08.13
threadreaderapp.com1 min readTLDR Crypto

MICROSOFT TEASES THE FUTURE OF WINDOWS: 'THE COMPUTER WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT WE SEE, HEAR WHAT WE HEAR, AND WE CAN TALK TO IT'

Microsoft's VP for OS Security, David Weston, envisions Windows 2030 featuring multimodal AI interactions with voice commands. Computers will see what users see and hear what they hear, enabling sophisticated natural communication beyond traditional mouse-and-keyboard interfaces. The author questions whether such dramatic changes will realistically occur by 2030, suggesting the timeline may be overly ambitious.

2025.08.13
techradar.com5 min readTLDR Design

PIXEL BUDS 2A LEAK REVEALS REFRESHED DESIGN

Leaked renders reveal Google's redesigned Pixel Buds 2a with a refreshed case featuring unified colors matching the earbuds. The budget-friendly A-series model comes in Iris purple and other colors, including black, Hazel, and Fog Light. Leaked specifications show Active Noise Cancellation, Spatial Audio, and a seven-hour battery life ahead of the Made by Google event.

2025.08.13
mashable.com2 min readTLDR Design

LIQUID GLASS GETS MORE CHANGES IN IOS 26 BETA 6, HERE'S WHAT'S NEW

iOS 26 beta 6 brings refined Liquid Glass visuals, including a more transparent Lock Screen clock that changes appearance with wallpaper, improved tab bar text legibility, and expanded chromatic effects for UI elements like toggles and tab bars. While no major design reversals are expected before launch, these tweaks make the new look feel more polished.

2025.08.13
9to5mac.com2 min readTLDR Design

OUTCOMES OVER OUTPUT: DESIGN SYSTEMS AND AI

Design system practitioners surveyed show cautious optimism about AI's impact, rating their future confidence 3.3 out of 5. Leadership seeks quick AI integration to avoid falling behind, but practitioners emphasize gaps between AI hype and practical workflow improvements. Design systems should serve as AI training infrastructure rather than focusing on output, requiring evolution toward strategic roles.

2025.08.13
bencallahan.com9 min readTLDR Design

IT'S 2025. WHY DOES UX STILL SUCK?

Digital user experiences remain fundamentally flawed despite decades of research and established best practices. Three potential causes include underinvestment in UX, inexperienced practitioners, and talent being excluded from critical technical decisions. A trillion-dollar opportunity awaits companies willing to differentiate through genuinely delightful user experiences.

2025.08.13
hackernoon.com2 min readTLDR Design

CONFESSIONS FROM A SELL OUT DESIGNER

A designer's perspective shifted from pure user advocacy to embracing business priorities such as ROI, strategic focus, scope control, technical feasibility, and balancing speed with quality. The evolution reframed “selling out” as learning the business's language. It enabled the designer to gain influence, secure resources, and deliver greater impact for both users and the organization.

2025.08.13
medium.com9 min readTLDR Design

AI-POWERED PHOTO EDITING STUDIO FOR MARKETING

Explore X-Design's photo editing workspace to create professional photos in minutes. Whether you are resizing images, adjusting colors, or adding transparent backgrounds to photos, X-Design makes it easy to edit images like a pro.

2025.08.13
x-design.comToolTLDR Design

IN USER RESEARCH, DON'T STOP AT “YES” OR “NO”

Product stakeholders frequently seek binary validation from user research rather than using it for discovery and insight generation. Simple yes/no responses prove unreliable and misleading, as participants often provide socially desirable answers without genuine feedback. Research delivers greater value when capturing nuanced insights about solution strengths and weaknesses rather than just flat validation.

2025.08.13
nngroup.com5 min readTLDR Design

AI WON'T KILL UX, OUR HABITS WILL: WHY DESIGNERS MUST STAY INTENTIONAL

AI tools aren't destroying UX design—designers' unintentional habits of prioritizing speed over thoughtful, human-centered processes are the real threat. Machine learning replicates existing patterns rather than innovating, creating efficient but soulless experiences when designers rely on automation without reflection. Maintaining curiosity, intentional research practices, and human empathy remains crucial as teams must use AI to support rather than replace critical thinking.

2025.08.13
links.tldrnewsletter.com5 min readTLDR Design

STUDIO KILN REFRESHES VINTED'S BRAND WITH A CONFIDENT, FLEXIBLE IDENTITY ROOTED IN ITS COMMUNITY SPIRIT

Vinted's refreshed identity, developed with Studio Kiln, modernises and unifies the brand while preserving its recognisable handwritten logo and signature Calypso green. The update introduces a flowing line graphic, refined colour palette with added Mint accents, custom VC Honey typography, tactile imagery, and motion design, creating a flexible, globally adaptable toolkit that strengthens brand recognition, celebrates its circular economy mission, and stands out in a competitive resale market.

2025.08.13
creativeboom.com5 min readTLDR Design

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2025.08.13
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AIRBNB: 2Q25 BUSINESS UPDATE

Airbnb's growth is slowing again - nights booked decelerated to 7% year-over-year, while competitor Booking grew 8% despite being twice Airbnb's size, with 309 million nights booked. Revenue grew 13% but the stock dropped 8% on weak guidance. The interesting part is CEO Brian Chesky's response. The company is pivoting to become more like Netflix than a search engine, with more bookings now coming from homepage recommendations than search. This lets it steer demand to markets with supply. After resisting for years, it is finally adding hotels and launching a loyalty program - plus authorizing $6 billion in buybacks on top of the $1 billion it just spent. The wildest bet is Services, where 60,000 people applied to offer everything from home chefs to yoga classes.

2025.08.13
speedwellmemos.com5 min readTLDR Founders

WHAT IS CHROME WORTH?

Perplexity just offered $34.5 billion for Chrome, betting on antitrust forcing Google to sell. The math reveals it is lowballing by hundreds of billions. Google pays Apple $20 billion yearly to be Safari's default search for 850 million users - that's $21 per user. Perplexity's offer values Chrome's 3.5 billion users at just $9 each. If Chrome users got Safari pricing, that's $73 billion in annual revenue. At typical tech multiples, Chrome is worth $172-$630 billion, not $34.5 billion.

2025.08.13
linkedin.com3 min readTLDR Founders

THE NEXT PHASE OF B2B CONTENT MARKETING: INFLUENCER NODES

Lars Lofgren spent 15 years in B2B content and watched company blogs go from king to dead. SEO ruled from 2015 to 2022 until AI blew it all up. Right now, teams are crushing it by AI-ifying their workflows, but Lofgren calls BS - it's a race to the bottom where someone always trains their model better. His bet: when everyone's drowning in lukewarm AI slop, people will crave real stories from real humans. B2C already figured this out with creators. B2B is next. CMOs have three options: pay influencers, hire them, or become one.

2025.08.13
larslofgren.com6 min readTLDR Founders

WHY NAILING YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE IS HARD

Everyone knows they need an ICP, but most companies never actually nail one down. First, the data problem - you're stitching together multiple CRMs, enriching firmographic data, and slicing numbers endlessly to figure out where you win most, where deals are biggest, and where it's easiest to make money. It's part math, part art, and mostly grind. Most ICPs die here because companies lack an analytical go-to person. However, even if you crush the analysis, you hit problem two: opinions. Your fancy data now has to merge with perspectives from sales, marketing, product, and, most importantly, your CEO. Everyone has strong feelings about which customers are best. The goal isn't perfection, it's intention. Get just enough agreement to stop pondering and start executing.

2025.08.13
hellooperator.substack.com3 min readTLDR Founders

THE STORY BEHIND OWNER'S PIVOTS TO A BILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS

Adam Guild dropped out of 10th grade after his Minecraft server hit six figures. At 17, he saved his mom's failing dog grooming salon with SEO that worked so well, he built a $2,000/month website builder for restaurants. Then COVID wiped out everything overnight. He called panicked restaurant owners who all said the same thing: delivery apps were killing them with 30% fees. Six weeks later, he'd rebuilt everything for online ordering and changed his pricing to $1.50 per order. Demo requests went from zero to hundreds per week. He broke every rule - bundling multiple products early, copying competitors openly, and removing customization options. The owner just hit $1 billion because Guild learned SMBs don't want flexibility, they want something that just works.

2025.08.13
review.firstround.com8 min readTLDR Founders

THE NEW FUNDRAISING PLAYBOOK: SEED-STRAPPING

Seed-strapping involves startups raising a single early funding round and relying on revenue for growth, with AI making this approach more feasible by accelerating product-market fit and reducing scaling costs. Notable examples include Zapier and Calendly, with recent AI startups like Aragon and Jenni.ai also adopting this model. While seed-strapping offers founder control and operational discipline, risks include losing to better-funded competitors and limitations in hiring and liquidity.

2025.08.13
tanayj.com3 min readTLDR Founders

ARENA

Software vendor discovery, evaluation, and purchasing for the AI era.

2025.08.13
usearena.comToolTLDR Founders

SUPER

Super is an AI-powered enterprise search and assistant platform that connects all your company tools to turn data into actionable answers and custom workflows.

2025.08.13
super.workToolTLDR Founders

COVERD RAISES $7.8M TO GAMIFY PERSONAL FINANCE MANAGEMENT

Coverd secured $7.8 million to revamp personal finance management. The platform introduces a gamified experience with high rewards, including a planned credit card offering 100% cash back on purchases. This approach aims to transform mundane financial tasks into engaging and rewarding activities.

2025.08.13
linkedin.com1 min readTLDR Founders

WHY AI CAN'T TOUCH YOUR TASTE

Everyone has access to the same AI tools now - your intern can create presentations as good as senior consultants. Technical execution itself may no longer be a competitive advantage. However, there's a paradox: as AI democratizes building, taste becomes everything. Research shows that labeling products "AI-powered" actually hurts trust and lowers expectations. We're hitting AI fatigue fast. The teams that win won't be the ones with the best AI - they'll be the ones who know what to build, not just how to build it. That judgment of what feels right versus what's technically possible? AI can't touch that.

2025.08.13
productpower.substack.com4 min readTLDR Founders

REGION BETA PARADOX

People stay in mediocre relationships for years but thrive after brutal breakups. That's the Region Beta Paradox - we tolerate mild discomfort forever but spring into action when pain gets intense. Smart marketers use this by turning tolerable problems into unbearable ones. Chime shows your paycheck being held hostage for two weeks. Apple animates surveillance cameras hovering over your screen. Misfits Market exposes how Big Grocery wastes millions of pounds of "ugly" food. The lesson: buyers won't budge for mild discomfort. Show them why their status quo is secretly intolerable and switching becomes urgent relief, not risky change.

2025.08.13
ckarchive.com3 min readTLDR Founders

WHEN CREDITS MEET ARR

Everyone's adding credit-based pricing to their AI features and hitting the same wall - how do you report this in ARR without making a mess?

2025.08.13
thefirstoperator.com3 min readTLDR Founders

NETHERLANDS: CITRIX NETSCALER FLAW CVE-2025-6543 EXPLOITED TO BREACH ORGS

The Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability (CVE-2025-6543) has been actively exploited to breach critical organizations in the country. The flaw allows attackers to compromise NetScaler appliances and gain unauthorized access to organizational networks. Organizations using Citrix NetScaler are urged to apply patches immediately to prevent exploitation.

2025.08.13
bleepingcomputer.com2 min readTLDR InfoSec

NORTH KOREAN KIMSUKY HACKERS EXPOSED IN ALLEGED DATA BREACH

Two hackers have breached the North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Kimsuky and leaked 8.9GB of data. The data includes phishing logs, data stolen from South Korea, phishing toolkits, unknown binary archives and executables, Chrome history and configs, and Bash history files. The hackers allegedly hacked Kimsuky for ideological reasons.

2025.08.13
bleepingcomputer.com2 min readTLDR InfoSec