Bombshell Report Exposes How Meta Relied on Scam Ad Profits to Fund AI
Meta’s internal documents reveal the company deliberately kept high‑value scam advertisers active because they generate billions of dollars, projecting $16 billion—about 10% of its 2024 revenue—from fraudulent ads, including $7 billion from “high‑risk” ads alone. The firm allowed accounts with hundreds of policy strikes to remain, using its ad‑personalization system to serve an estimated 15 billion high‑risk scam ads daily, while internal guidance capped enforcement actions to protect less than 0.15% of total revenue. Meta claims a 58% drop in user reports and removal of over 134 million scam‑ad pieces in 2025, but regulators and former safety staff warn the practice creates a conflict of interest and could trigger enforcement or disgorgement.
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 2-6, 2025
The weekly SaasRise mastermind recap highlights practical guidance for SaaS founders, covering sales positioning against well‑funded rivals, lean marketing and sales staffing, authentic content creation, low‑budget high‑ROI paid advertising, and targeted lead‑generation tactics. It also offers strategies for building B2B...
New US Senate Bill Calls for Agencies and Companies to Be Forced to Report AI-Related Job Cuts
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley have introduced the AI‑Related Job Impacts Clarity Act, which would compel federal agencies, publicly traded firms and certain private companies to file quarterly reports with the Department of Labor detailing AI‑driven layoffs, new AI‑related...
Control Your Data to Unlock AI Agent Value
AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful. This is why I increasingly try to select software that lets me control...
AI-Powered Platform &AI Goes Public, Boosting Patent Litigation
&AI (@tryandai) is a collaborative workspace for patent invalidity and infringement work — litigation, portfolio monetization, business development, and more. Over the past year, they've been working closely with the best patent litigators and in-house teams in the world, supporting them...
Clear Step‑by‑Step AI Mastery Roadmap for 2025
🚀 AI Mastery Roadmap – Your GPS to mastering artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to become an AI architect, this roadmap from Mindstream is one of the clearest, most actionable visual guides I’ve seen....
Meta Brings Its Short-Form Video Feed of AI Slop to Europe
Meta announced the European rollout of Vibes, a short‑form video feed in the Meta AI app that exclusively showcases AI‑generated clips, just six weeks after its U.S. debut and days after OpenAI unveiled its own AI video platform, Sora. The...
Win in AI Era with Data, Strategy Over Tactics
If AI content is will eventually becoming 99% of content, how do you stand out? Was talking with a founder about this recently and here’s how you win distribution in a world full of bots: 1. Proprietary data + data visualizations win I...
AI Strategies for Overwhelm, Leadership, and Human Connection
My conversation with @melrobbins is officially live 🎤 We talked about using AI to better handle overwhelm, run a team with no help, and even ways to use AI to have more meaningful human-to-human in-person interactions. Our interview was 2.5 hours long...
Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun by Crabs
Google is planning a large, undisclosed AI data center on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as part of a cloud‑computing deal with the Australian Defence Force. The site, located 220 miles south of Indonesia, would give...
Great Business Stories Must Serve Purpose, Audience, Tension
You’ve probably heard presentation advice like: “Share a short personal story,” or “Be authentic.” But if you just share a random story about “the time I (fill in the blank)” … It will fall flat. Telling a story about yourself doesn’t automatically...
Should B2B Brands Embrace Reddit?
Reddit has partnered with review platform G2, embedding G2 data into Reddit business profiles and licensing Reddit content to AI models. With 115 million daily active users and a high proportion of tech decision‑makers, Reddit is emerging as a pivotal channel...
Automate Video Learning with AI Agents, Skip Watching
Do not watch this video. Instead: 1. Click the Grok button on this post. Wait for it to get done with its three points. Then ask it "what did you learn by watching this video?" 2. Sign up for @Pokee_AI, give it...
Tiny Audience, Massive ROI From One High‑value Subscriber
If only 100 people listen to your podcast, but it’s really good and provides a ton of true value And 10 of those 100 are potential customers, and they really get value And just 1 buys say a $20k annual subscription, and...
Google Finance Offers Gemini AI Tools to Stock Traders
Google announced that its Google Finance app will soon include a "Deep Search" feature powered by Gemini AI, delivering fully‑cited, multi‑step research answers and a visible reasoning plan. Users can opt into early access via Google Labs, with usage caps...
Microsoft AI Says It’ll Make Superintelligent AI that Won’t Be Terrible for Humanity
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced a new team dedicated to building a "humanist superintelligence"—a tightly controlled, limited‑autonomy AI designed solely to serve humanity. The initiative follows Microsoft’s recent launch of its own text, voice and image models and a revised...
First 30 B2B SaaS Marketers Get VIP Boat Experience
B2B SaaS marketers, this one’s for you. Spryng is coming (Mar 24-25 in Austin TX). The event built for B2B SaaS marketers who want to know what's actually working for everyone else. No panels, minimals powerpoints, only real conversations that move...
Government Should Fund AI, Requiring Shared IP
Yesterday I said the government shouldn't invest in OpenAI. There's another side to that coin, of course. My mom always taught me to be able to argue both sides of an argument. And we are competing with China, which has...
Reinforcement Learning Boosts AI Agents Beyond LLMs
Good morning world model fans. Today I put up a video with founder of @Pokee_AI who has a very different, and better than the others, way to make AI agents work better. Uses reinforcement learning and not just LLMs. More like how...
Emotionally Intelligent AI Support Scales Enterprise Customer Service
Giga (@gigaml) is building the next generation of customer support — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world’s largest enterprises. The team recently raised $61M to power emotionally intelligent, human-quality conversations at enterprise...
Export Restrictions Threaten US AI Leadership and Global Innovation
Everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way to win a technology race is to get the most users and developers on your platform. Yet the anti-export lobby in Washington keeps inventing reasons why America’s friends and allies shouldn’t be...
Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking Emerges as Leading Open Source AI, Outperforming GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Key Benchmarks
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model that activates 32 billion parameters per inference and is released under a modified MIT license on Hugging Face. In third‑party benchmarks it posted 44.9% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 60.2% on BrowseComp, 71.3% on SWE‑Bench...
You Can Hide From a Lot of Things as a Founder. Cash Burn Isn’t One of Them.
Jason Lemkin warns founders that while many operational issues can be postponed, cash burn is unforgiving and must be faced head‑on. He stresses calculating true runway using actual burn, adding a substantial buffer, and making decisive, deep cuts early rather...
What if We Had Fixed Social Media?
The post imagines a world where humane technology reforms replaced addictive social‑media algorithms with consensus‑building and solution‑focused feeds, enforced dopamine‑emission standards, and treated platforms as attention fiduciaries subject to zoning‑like regulations. It describes sweeping cultural, legal, and design changes—including school...
Chaos and Lies: Why Sam Altman Was Booted From OpenAI, According to New Testimony
New deposition testimony from OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit, details why Sam Altman was briefly ousted in November 2023. Sutskever alleges Altman repeatedly lied to the board, pitted senior executives against each other, gave conflicting information...
impact.com’s Global State of Affiliate Marketing Report Shows Sharp Rise in Partnerships Driving Long-Term Value and Growth
impact.com’s Global State of Affiliate Marketing 2025 report, based on a survey of 818 marketers across eight countries, shows a sharp increase in affiliate spend as 74% of brands raised budgets amid rising costs in other channels. One‑third of brands...
Deepnote Open‑Sources Modern Notebook, Challenging Jupyter’s Dominance
This is BIG. Deepnote, a company I’ve followed and used since its creation, just OPEN-SOURCED their modern notebook framework 🔥 And honestly, this could be the final chapter for Jupyter. After 7 years of development, @DeepnoteHQ has built something that redefines the notebook...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Essential to Help Businesses Prepare for Impending AI Regulation
The EU AI Act, set to take effect in August 2026, imposes a risk‑based framework that requires companies using AI in the bloc to ensure transparency, verification and human oversight, with heavy penalties for non‑compliance. Data sovereignty—keeping data subject to the...
8×8 Sees Surge in AI Adoption as Organizations Race to Deliver Faster, Smarter Customer Engagement
8×8, Inc. reported a strong surge in AI adoption on its Platform for CX in Q2 FY26, with Intelligent Customer Assistant contracts rising 59% year‑over‑year and AI‑driven interactions climbing 167% YoY, driven by a 592% jump in voice AI usage....
Your Ring Camera Is About to Get Smarter with Single Event Alert – and It Should Mean Fewer Notifications
Ring announced an AI‑powered Single Event Alert that bundles multiple motion notifications from the same occurrence into a single push, aiming to curb the “notification fatigue” many users experience. The feature can recognize repeated activity—such as a child playing or...
Viant Expands Direct Access in CTV with Magnite SpringServe Integration
Viant Technology announced that its Direct Access program now integrates directly with Magnite’s SpringServe video ad server, giving advertisers a transparent, direct‑to‑publisher path for premium CTV inventory. The integration removes non‑value‑added intermediaries, promising faster decisioning, higher efficiency and better performance...
10 Questions to Ask Before You Hire a Marketing Agency, Consultant, or Fractional CMO
Sara Nay outlines ten essential questions small businesses should ask before hiring a marketing agency, consultant, or fractional CMO, emphasizing transparency, data ownership, and strategic alignment over vanity metrics. She highlights red flags such as lack of account control, unclear...
Letterboxd Is Down – Here's Everything We Know About the Movie App's Outage
Letterboxd experienced a global outage beginning around 7:20 am ET on 6 Nov 2025, rendering both its app and website inaccessible and prompting over 600 user reports on Downdetector. The disruption coincided with the company’s annual 20%‑off Pro/Patron subscription sale running through 7 Nov,...
Cameroon Social Media Ban Sees Proton VPN Signups Skyrocket by 3,000%
Cameroon authorities blocked TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram and other platforms on Oct. 23 amid post‑election protests, prompting a 3,000% spike in new Proton VPN sign‑ups from the country. The Swiss‑based provider recorded Cameroon among its top five markets for free...
The Challenge of Authentic Selling with Kunick Kapadia
In a Predictable Revenue Podcast episode, Anova co‑founder Kunick Kapadia stresses that product‑market fit is earned through rigorous validation before any build, with founder‑led sales of the first $1 million serving as the primary learning engine. He frames PMF as a...
The New Rules of Sales Conversations: Winning Over Today’s Informed Buyer
Chris Orlob explains that sales conversations have fundamentally changed as buyers arrive already educated, forcing salespeople to shift from information‑delivery to consultative, value‑creating roles and to engage prospects across multiple channels. He outlines three key evolutions: a cultural shift toward...
RAG Boosts Memory, Fine‑tuning Sharpens Judgment
Most people still confuse RAG and fine-tuning — and it’s costing them weeks of wasted effort. Here’s the simple truth: RAG gives your model better memory. Fine-tuning gives it better judgment. RAG connects your model to an external brain so it can retrieve...
AI Investment Soars, yet only 1% Achieve Maturity
Almost all companies invest in AI, yet only 1% say they’re mature. @McKinsey 's 2025 workplace report reveals 92% plan to ramp up AI spending and employees expect about 30% of their work to be automated. https://t.co/Y1vEOJyoKk ...
Cash Burn: No Escape for Founders
New on SaaStr!! "You Can Hide From a Lot of Things as a Founder. Cash Burn Isn’t One of Them." https://t.co/GzWBxOnn2k https://t.co/KFM0DeUeuo
Prioritize UX in SEO to Fuel B2B Growth
Beyond Rankings: UX-Driven #SEO for B2B Growth - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/oOcPZWFn3U
Amera Cuts Claims Admin Costs 20‑30% via Automation
Amera automates claims processing workflows for health insurance payers. It cuts admin costs by 20-30%, turns hours of manual work into minutes, and helps members access more affordable, transparent care. https://t.co/xhDCotk94Z Congrats on the launch, @deepkkapur & @LouiseTanski!
Google Announces Game‑Changing AI Infrastructure Expansion
Google is making HUGE moves in AI infrastructure. I got the press release this morning that @TeksEdge shares. It is one of the most stunning press releases I've ever gotten and I get a lot.
Cotera Launches Production-Ready AI Agents with Budget Control
Cotera lets you build AI agents that actually work in production. Build in chat. Connect to hundreds of tools. Set real budgets. No surprises. Congrats on the launch, @statueofibberty & @tdfirth! https://t.co/fukx4L5rK2 https://t.co/ILZZnia71d
Brand Belief Drives B2B Success in the Trust Economy
The trust economy: why brand belief is B2B’s strongest currency https://t.co/khYEIfEJk0
AI Hype: Bubble or Superintelligence? Both Unlikely.
The two biggest narratives about AI right now are that (1) it’s a massive bubble (i.e. totally fake) and (2) about to give rise to superintelligence (i.e. totally real). Both narratives can be fake (which is what I believe) but...
No U.S. AI Bailout; Competition Will Fill Gaps
There will be no federal bailout for AI. The U.S. has at least 5 major frontier model companies. If one fails, others will take its place.
Live in 4 Minutes: Meet TinySeed’s Newest Startups
Going live in 4 minutes announcing the newest batch of TinySeed companies 🔥👇🏼
Mr Hamel Argues Evaluations Don’t Matter—Course Discounts!
tomorrow on ai chit chat is Mr Hamel. he is gonna chat with me about evaluations and why they “do not” matter! dont miss.also, he is providing discounts for his amazing course. @HamelHusain discounts please 🙏 😆
AI-Driven Sperm Analysis Achieves First Successful Pregnancy
AI-Guided Sperm Analysis Results In First Successful Pregnancy. A significant advancement in fertility treatment has been achieved. https://t.co/AvMH0zctBv #AI #fertilization #healthTech #technews #technology #Innovation
AI Upskilling Doubles Wage Growth, Boosts Earnings
AI isn’t just replacing jobs, it’s amplifying talent. PwC’s 2025 AI Jobs Barometer shows wages in AI‑exposed roles are rising 2x faster and skills evolving at record speed. AI‑savvy workers can earn a 56% premium. Upskill now to ride the...
