Too Burned Out to Travel? This New App Fakes Your Summer Vacation Photos for You
Designer Laurent Del Rey launched Endless Summer, an iPhone photobooth app that uses Google’s Gemini Nano‑Banana image model to generate AI‑created “vacation” photos of users and recently added seasonal themes like Halloween. The app lets users produce a limited free set of images before a paywall (pricing: $3.99 for 30 images, $17.99 for 150, $34.99 for 300), offers optional auto‑generation and auto‑save features, and claims simple account deletion and privacy controls. Beyond novelty, the product commercializes staged lifestyle imagery to meet demand from burned‑out consumers wanting the appearance of leisure, while raising questions about authenticity, monetization of generative models and consumer privacy.
CFOs Celebrate $500M Funding Surge in Accounting ERP
$500M dollars raised by just 5 players in the Accounting ERP space. Wow. The game is on. Here’s the list... - Campfire raises $100M+ - Rillet raises $100M+ - DualEntry raises $100M+ - Light raises $43M - Everest raises $140M...
AI Races Ahead, Leaving Institutions and Users Scrambling
AI is moving faster than institutions, slower than expectations, and sideways to almost everyone’s plans. Enterprises are still debating “AI strategy” while startups ship new agents every week. Researchers are sprinting ahead while regulators write think pieces. And users? They’re experimenting in...
SaaStr AI App of The Week: Alloy — The AI Prototyping Tool That Actually Looks Like Your Product (Not Some...
Alloy, an AI prototyping tool from the makers of Index, captures live product pages and generates on‑brand, production‑looking UI prototypes from plain‑English prompts, letting PMs iterate features in minutes rather than weeks. The startup says it has 10,000+ signups and...
Reward Hacking with Mjlab's Seamless Wandb Integration
We do a bit of reward hacking. Enjoying mjlab's robust wandb integration for tracking runs and storing chkpts Always a fan of wandb but usually too lazy to do the integration for the stats/files like this We'll see if I ever actually make...
Build Systems First, Hire Later for Efficient Ops
Thinking about hiring before your process works? Wrong order. Sketch the workflow, automate the tedious 80%, document step-by-step. Only add humans where judgment or trust beats code. Systems first, team second. That's how tiny ops outpace big orgs.
WhatsApp Changes Its Terms to Bar General Purpose Chatbots From Its Platform
Meta-owned WhatsApp updated its Business API terms to bar general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform, effective January 15, 2026, prohibiting AI providers from using the API to distribute assistants whose primary function is conversational AI. The change targets recent unanticipated...
Competition Is Really Heating Up in Our Market. What Should We Do?
Jason Lemkin warns that intensifying SaaS competition requires measured diagnosis and an aggressive, customer‑focused response rather than panic. He advises tracking win/loss rates, doubling down on top customers, accelerating feature gap fixes, and hunting for a 10x differentiator, while emphasizing...
Open Datasets Explosion Empowers Everyone to Train Models
I love the diversity of trending open datasets these days. There’s no excuse anymore not to train your own models! - Fineweb and a shuffle of it by @karpathy - Webscale-RL, a large-scale reinforcement learning dataset from @salesforce - SVQ, an audio...
Tiny Robots Swarm, Adapt and Self‑Heal
These Tiny #Robots Can Swarm, Adapt, and Heal Themselves https://t.co/Uze63KNzpO @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani @tewoz @chidambara09 @IsabellePiel29 @ClementIsa @SvetBnov @mallys @jeancayeux @aure79lien @EricTIXADOR...
Small Teams Can Hit $10M ARR with AI Efficiency
You think bootstrapping a SaaS in 2025 is about scale? You got it upside down. It's about doing more with less. 10-person teams can do +$10M ARR. 3-person teams can do +$1M ARR. 1-person teams can do 6 figure ARR. And no, you don't have...
'Much Like Apple': Elon Musk's "Macrohard" Project Will Take a Leaf Out of Cupertino's Book as It Takes on Microsoft...
Elon Musk announced “Macrohard,” a new xAI initiative to build an AI‑driven software and platform ecosystem that sets standards, licenses software and defines system requirements while outsourcing physical manufacturing to partners much like Apple. Backed by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer and...
Voice‑First CRM: Ditch Typing, Embrace AI Interaction
There’s got to be someone out there building a voice-only CRM for busy, traveling or CRM-annoyed reps and execs (which is 90% of them!) Seems like all the new AI-native (claiming) CRMs that I’ve seen, which is not all of...
Abstract or Die: Why AI Enterprises Can't Afford Rigid Vector Stacks
The rapid proliferation of vector databases—ranging from pgvector and DuckDB VSS to Pinecone and Milvus—has created mounting stack instability and costly migration risk for enterprises deploying AI. The piece argues that rather than chasing a single “perfect” backend, companies should...
Fundamentals of Content Marketing Endure Despite Technological Shifts
I was lucky to have been part of one of the first true content marketing and thought-leadership teams back in the olden days. We eventually built the team to 12 people and over $1M in budget. What’s hilarious (other than...
UAE to Automate Work Permits Entirely via AI
Work permits in #UAE soon to be fully approved, and issued by #AI without human involvement! https://t.co/BmK7lnlLzx #workpermit #artificial_intelligence #AIAgent #agenticAI @lexfridman @KirkDBorne @Ronald_vanLoon @erikbryn @antgrasso @sallyeaves @Nicochan33 @HaroldSinnott @mvollmer1 @marcusborba @CatherineAdenle @vinod1975 @YuHelenYu @ingliguori @fogoros @ylecun @TerenceLeungSF @SourabhSKatoch @wil_bielert @HsrYueli...
Silicon Valley Spooks the AI Safety Advocates
Prominent Silicon Valley figures — White House alum David Sacks and OpenAI official Jason Kwon — drew widespread online backlash this week for dismissive comments about organizations advocating for AI safety. Their remarks reignited tensions between tech insiders and safety...
Build Reliable AI Agents Faster with Agentforce Builder
🚀 Introducing the future of agent development! Meet Agentforce Builder + Agent Script 👇 ❌ Complex, siloed, unpredictable agents ✅ Conversational building with Agentforce Builder ✅ Transparent, controllable logic with Agent Script ✅ Reliable AI agents — easier to deploy than ever Build smarter. Ship faster....
RBI Launches DPIP AI to Preempt Digital Fraud
RBI’s New Weapon- ‘DPIP’ The AI Platform That Will Spot Digital Fraud Before They Can Happen! https://t.co/Pp1Cn0qKSS via @The420in #RBI #DPIP #fraud #scam #AI #CyberSec #artificial_intelligence @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves...
🧑🚀 ONE HUNDRED WAYS TO USE AI
The post introduces a hands‑on playbook titled “100 Ways to Use AI,” designed to turn readers into AI power users through 100 practical, ready‑to‑try examples covering personal, work, and creative tasks. Each entry details the use case, benefits, step‑by‑step instructions,...
Deploy 600+ AI Tool Integrations in Three Clicks
Metorial (@MetorialAI) makes it easy for AI agents to use tools and data. Deploy 600+ MCP integrations in three clicks and connect them to agents in a single function call. Open-source and the only serverless MCP platform built for multi-tenant...
Kamal 2.8 Adds Local Registry, Simplifying Rails Deployments
Kamal 2.8 will finally give us a local registry option for simple deploys. This means you won't need a Docker Hub or GHCR setup just to see your app in production. Will get this snuck into Rails 8.1 before we...
Facebook’s New Button Lets Its AI Look at Photos You Haven’t Uploaded Yet
Meta is rolling out an opt-in Facebook feature in the US and Canada that scans users’ phone camera rolls, uploads unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and suggests edits and collages to make images more “shareworthy.” Meta says the uploaded media...
Google Expands Spam Definition, Boosts Quality Content Ranking
Google's VP of Search explained that the definition of spam was extended and said what kind of content will get up-weighted. https://t.co/K1NuOJYNAO via @martinibuster, @sejournal
Fleet MDM Adds Arch, Omarchy Support for Mac‑free Migrations
Fleet MDM just added explicit support for Arch and Omarchy. This seems like a great option if your organization is leaving the Mac and needs a Kandji replacement. https://t.co/Fw6bywEzuU https://t.co/ndyq8UzYIv
Developers Can Now Add Live Google Maps Data to Gemini-Powered AI App Outputs
Google has launched 'Grounding with Google Maps' for its Gemini API, letting developers embed live Google Maps data—covering over 250 million places—into Gemini-powered AI responses to provide factual, location-specific details like hours, reviews and venue photos. The feature is available...
Missed Dreamforce 2025? Watch 6‑minute AI Keynote Highlights
🚀 Missed #Dreamforce 2025? Catch our keynote highlights in just 6 minutes! Experience Agentforce Vibes & Vibe Codey redefining enterprise AI + dev. 🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Yrs6SKn88f 💙
AI‑Powered Vibe Codey Accelerates Salesforce Development
🚀 Vibe Codey is here to turbocharge your Salesforce dev! AI-powered coding, MCP support, & natural language DevOps. Build apps faster, deploy smarter. Check it out: https://t.co/6WFnkDq6GB #Agentforce #DF25 💙 https://t.co/DSmhda2ki2
Senate Republicans Deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X Hasn’t Taken It Down
Senate Republicans posted a deepfaked video of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on their X account and the platform has not removed it, despite policies banning deceptively shared synthetic or manipulated media likely to cause harm. X’s rules explicitly prohibit...
Enterprise Virtual Employees: The Future of Workforce
Introducing enterprise virtual employees.
Domain‑Specific AI Agents Accelerate Enterprise Adoption
Having talked to hundreds of IT leaders over the last year alone, it’s clear we have a capability overhang where the current AI models are already very good at solving many problems that haven’t been adopted yet. The biggest hurdles generally...
This Week in AI Engineering
This week’s AI engineering roundup highlights three developments reshaping developer workflows and compute economics: OpenAI launched Agent Builder, a no-code drag-and-drop tool that lets non-developers assemble multi-agent workflows alongside ChatKit, Evals and reinforcement fine-tuning; NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark, a...
AI as Junior Pair‑Programmer Mirrors Engineer’s Iterative Loop
We've learned the same things as @maccaw points out in this thread about using AI to generate 100% of the code. The engineers at @CrazyEgg follow a similar process. They use AI like a junior pair-programmer. Fast, tireless, sometimes wrong and always...
Today's Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
AI Agents Get Self‑Driving Safety Testing with Scorecard
Exclusive first look: I sat down with Darius Ani, @dariusemrani, CEO of Scorecard, a company that’s bringing self-driving car safety logic to the world of AI agents. Darius shared how his experience as an engineer at @Waymo inspired a system...
Choose the Right Location for Your AI Agents
It’s 9:30 AM. Do you know where your agent is? As we enter the era of agentic AI, this is an increasingly important question. ChatGPT launched the consumer use of AI, compressing all of human knowledge into a single model....
Know Your Agent’s Real‑Time Location at 9:30 AM
It’s 9:30 AM. Do you know where your agent is? As we enter the era of agentic AI, this is an increasingly important question. ChatGPT launched the consumer use of AI, compressing all of human knowledge into a single model....
Google Unveils Wave of AI Tools and Updates
It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google...
Mastering Replit Fluency Enables Apps Built in Mind
I think after 100+ days and with 9 apps vibe coded into production with @Replit used over 500,000 times we're just getting going. 🧠And … I think key to that is that I'm now "Replit Fluent". What does that mean? It's...
B2B Influencer Fees Need Tiered Pricing, Not Flat Rates
Dear CMO: Thanks again for offering me $800 to write 10 X and LinkedIn posts for you as a “B2B Influencer”! I do think these programs make sense. (If and until algos kill them.) Every B2B marketer seems to think...
Veo 3.1 Empowers Creators with Richer Audio and Video Control
Meet Veo 3.1 👋 With Veo 3.1, you can generate videos with richer audio, better narrative control, and enhanced realism. This new update also comes with a suite of additional features built for creative control. Including the ability to: — Extend your videos...
AI Turns Everyone Into a Product Builder
Dylan Field says we're all product builders now. Figma CEO shared new data showing how AI is merging roles like designer, engineer, and PM: • 72% of workers say AI tools are expanding their roles • 56% of non-designers now complete...
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LIVE OFFICE HOURS -- FREE GTM ADVICE. Zoom in the comments...
Season Finale: Join AI Chat Series Before Nov 15
ill end the first season of ai chit chat series soon. if you want to be a part of it or if you want me ask someone to be a guest, let me know asap :) im fully booked till...
Dreamforce Highlights Explosive Growth of Agentforce Platform
Dreamforce was unreal! 🌟 Agentforce City was pure 🔥! In just 1 year: ✨ 1.8M+ convos on https://t.co/BrfR5x8Vvh ✨ 12,500+ customers on Agentforce Huge love to Trailblazers like PepsiCo, Equinox, Heathrow, Williams Sonoma & Pandora! Humans + agents = the future! 🚀 #DF25 💙 https://t.co/haQ5unlRCm
Simulon Delivers Superior Real‑time AI Lighting Estimation
I like light probes and I cannot lie. Especially when they’re being hallucinated by AI. Simulon is building a much higher quality version of image-based lighting estimation the Vision Pro or ARCore does in real time.
OpenAI and Sora Enable Perfectly Secure Computer Design
Designing the perfectly secure computer, thanks to OpenAI and Sora: https://t.co/uWqIMhSSj4
All‑in‑One Builder Platform Beats Procore, Costs Less
https://t.co/UlyECkLph4 is the all-in-one platform built for real builders. Keep teams aligned, simplify every workflow, and bring trust back to construction. Better than Procore. Cheaper than a truck. https://t.co/CQWYQmzOja https://t.co/soAZZ949Pv
Browser‑Based Viz Makes Training Progress Easy Anywhere
exceptionally easy install and demo at least. Didn't realize viz ran via browser immediately makes it easy to visualize training progress from a personal computer while processing occurs on a server/workhorse machine true test will be trying this on custom problem and...
Conversational AI Handles Full Email Campaigns End‑to‑End
📧@mailmodo AI is an end-to-end conversational agent for email marketing. Now startups can plan, design, automate, and analyze entire email campaigns in one conversation. https://t.co/RVySuUbWw6 https://t.co/ZtXU78Kbpw
