Google Is Fighting the Defamation Battle Meta Caved On
Google has moved to dismiss a $15 million defamation lawsuit filed by anti‑corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who alleges the company’s AI falsely linked him to sexual‑assault accusations and white‑nationalist ties. Starbuck previously sued Meta over AI‑generated claims that he participated in the Jan 6 Capitol riot; Meta settled the case and even hired him as an advisor on AI bias. Google argues the plaintiff’s allegations stem from his own misuse of developer tools that induced AI hallucinations, noting he has not identified any specific prompts or harmed parties. No U.S. court has yet awarded damages for AI‑driven defamation, making the outcome uncertain.
Acquisitions Close Quickly, but Relationships Take Years
If you want to potentially get acquired — start now. It often really, quietly takes years. What do I mean? Well for sure, acquisitions themselves technically often happen very quickly. The acquiring CEO reaches out, they meet up...
How ChatGPT Works: A Guide to Its Interface on Mobile and Web
The guide walks users through the ChatGPT interface on both mobile and web, detailing how to access account settings, upgrade to Plus, and connect services like Gmail. It explains where to find chat history, how to enable temporary chats, and...
Data, Not Algorithms, Fueled the AI Revolution
My biggest takeaways from Fei-Fei Li : 1. Just nine years ago, calling yourself an AI company was considered bad for business. Nobody believed the technology would work back in 2016. By 2017, companies started embracing the term. Today, virtually...
OpenAI Is Finally Letting Employees Donate Their Equity to Charity
OpenAI announced it will finally let current and former employees donate eligible equity to charity, ending an 18‑month delay. The program could enable staff with six‑figure equity grants from 2019 to contribute millions, though a short decision window and advisory...
Authentic Compliments Can't Be Automated—Use Targeted Messaging Frameworks
“Congrats on scaling Blueprint” <— NEVER try to scale a compliment and here’s why… The whole purpose of a compliment is that it’s from the heart, genuine. Also, the whole purpose of automation for sales is to open up conversations....
New Grok to Power X and Humanless Tesla Robotaxi
New Grok. Less slop. This is important because this new model will be running the algorithm here on X soon. Or at least a lightweight version therein. And it will be running so many other things, particularly Tesla's Robotaxi network....
Google Updates Its Weather Forecasts with a New AI Model
Google unveiled WeatherNext 2, an AI‑powered weather forecasting model that is eight times faster and more accurate than its predecessor, achieving 99.9% accuracy on variables such as temperature and wind. The model uses a Functional Generative Network to generate hundreds...
Google Calendar Can Finally Block Off Time without Faking a Meeting
Google Calendar now lets users block off time for tasks, marking themselves as busy and automatically rejecting meeting requests, effectively turning tasks into pseudo‑meetings. The feature, long‑requested by Workspace users, adds options such as adjustable time blocks, “do not disturb”...
The Internet of AI Agents Is the Future. In Conversation with Vijoy Pandey
In this episode, host Jason Stoughton talks with Vijoy Pandey about the emerging "Internet of AI Agents," exploring how interoperable agents can break down siloed systems and enable seamless collaboration across the tech ecosystem. Pandey draws on his experience at...
Stop Using AI to Write Your Resume and Cover Letter
Job seekers are hurting themselves by using AI mindlessly. @alliekmiller echoes what other HR people are telling me. Don't use AI to write your cover letter or your resume. They have tools that can tell when you are using AI...
Align Sales & Marketing: Translate, Measure, Integrate, Scale
In my 20+ years as the connector between Sales and Marketing, I have repeatedly observed four specific areas that hindered their performance as a revenue team. They misfired on at least two (if not all four) of these areas: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:...
Success Metrics, Not Plug‑and‑Play, Drive AI Projects
Leaders are discovering the hard way that “plug-and-play AI” is mostly a myth. The tech may look polished, but the real work begins where the glossy demo ends. This new episode of AI in Action breaks down why so many...
The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
The episode examines Kosmos, an AI "scientist" that claims to compress six months of research into a single day, processing thousands of papers, generating massive codebases, and delivering validated findings in fields like neuroscience, genetics, materials science, and Alzheimer’s research....
Coinstack Sale: 340k-Subscriber Crypto Newsletter on Acquire
We will be selling Coinstack via Acquire.com over the next 6 weeks. This is our weekly institutional crypto newsletter with 340k subscribers. If you are a qualified buyer please reach out to me via DM and I'll send you the...
Open, Safe, Factual LLMs Are Essential for AI Safety
What is the state of the art of AI safety? Very interesting talk by XXXXX at @mbzuai (the first only-AI university in the world in Abu Dhabi) that I recorded last week by professor @preslav_nakov. This goes into depth on...
Prepare Your Workforce For An Agentic Future With An Agent Experience Program
The episode explains that integrating AI agents into the workforce creates significant organizational disruption, with most costs tied to human change‑management rather than technology. It introduces the concept of an Agent Experience (AX) program and outlines five essential skills—knowledge curation,...
AI Startups Should Prioritize Upmarket Strategy over Quick Downmarket Wins
Last week, we brought together more than 325 founders, LPs, and go-to-market leaders at Google NYC HQ for the Stage 2 Capital Summit. It continues to be my favorite day of the year, as I get a front-row seat to...
AI‑Powered Life Timeline Guides Personal Growth Decisions
Cannot tell if this Claude Project use case is brilliant or unsettling. Just chatted with someone who built a Claude Project with an entire timeline of their life and how they felt at each stage. Like "1972 - born in Atlanta, loved...
Samsung's "The Wall" Is the Biggest LED Display You Can Get for Your Office or Workplace - and It's Just...
Samsung has launched an upgraded version of its The Wall MPF large‑format LED display for enterprise use, offering up to 1,000 nits of brightness, Black Seal Technology+ for higher contrast, and AI‑driven NQM Gen2 processing that upscales lower‑resolution content toward 8K. The...
Gamma Raises $68M, Hits $100M ARR, Remains Ultra‑Lean
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here’s how they’re building one of the leanest AI companies in the world👇
Scaling AI Requires Workflow Redesign and Leadership Commitment
It’s 2025 and 88% of companies are using AI, but only 1/3 are actually scaling it. McKinsey & Company 's new 2025 State of AI report just dropped, and after THREE YEARS of ChatGPT, companies are still stuck in pilot...
Microsoft Unveils Its First "AI Superfactory" - Here's What the Future of Computing Will Really Look Like
Microsoft unveiled its first AI superfactory, linking large AI datacenters in Wisconsin and Atlanta via a dedicated fiber network that acts as a virtual supercomputer for massive model training. The facilities pack GPUs densely across two floors, employ Nvidia Blackwell...
This Week in SaaS Nov 11 - 17, 2025
This edition of "This Week in SaaS" delivers a concise roundup of the week’s most notable SaaS activity, highlighting dozens of sizable AI‑driven funding rounds, two high‑profile M&A deals and an IPO opening, alongside three fresh blog posts on UI/UX,...
Gamma Scales to $100M ARR with 50‑person AI Team
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here’s how they’re building one of the leanest AI companies in the world👇 For 35 years, presentation software barely changed. People kept using legacy tools built in...
The Expensive Problem: Why B2B Marketers Are Blind to Most of Their ROI
The post argues that B2B marketers rely on outdated click‑based attribution, which captures only a fraction of the buyer journey, leading to blind spots and misallocated spend. It promotes view‑through attribution as a more accurate, privacy‑friendly method that reveals the...
Your Online Reservations Are Telling Restaurants All About You
OpenTable is rolling out an AI‑assisted tagging feature that surfaces diners’ habits—such as preferred drinks, spending level, review activity, and likelihood of cancellations—to restaurant staff via its reservation and table‑management platform. The tags are generated from POS data collected across...
Investors Chase Metrics; Strategics Chase Product Fit
Is the process the same for M&A vs. a capital raise? While the process is largely the same, there are some differences. The biggest difference: investors tend to be hyper focused on metrics, while strategics tend to be more focused...
AI Should Boost Product Value, Not Just Code Output
The goal of implementing AI on product teams isn’t to produce more code. It’s to produce more product value that your customers adopt. The historical constraint was engineering. As a result, I think there has been an over focus on...
How to Create a B2B Content Marketing Machine
The post outlines how to build a repeatable B2B content marketing machine that drives massive audience reach and revenue growth, emphasizing a weekly anchor piece of content that is systematically repurposed across newsletters, blogs, LinkedIn, video, and ads. It stresses...
Strong SaaS Finance Starts with Clean Data Foundations
I had a CFO coaching session today and spoke with a coaching prospect. The recurring theme? Our finance data foundation. We can have great software in place to do a lot of things for us, but data is the big...
Formal Agreements Protect Friendships in Business Partnerships
✍️ As a founder, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. When entering into a business partnership, friendship can’t be the only strategy. So when everything feels exciting and full of possibility, that’s exactly when you need a...
Make Your SaaS UI/UX Beautiful
The post argues that a beautiful, frictionless UI/UX is now a baseline requirement for SaaS growth, not a luxury, and that poor design cannot be compensated by marketing. It highlights how AI‑powered design tools and modern component libraries let founders...
Neo Robot Sounds Like the Answer to Our Home Chore prayers...but Also a Potential Privacy Nightmare
TechRadar AI Week reports that 1X’s Neo Beta, a $20,000 humanoid home robot capable of remote tele‑operation for AI training, is entering limited consumer trials. While the robot promises to automate chores, its ability to stream real‑time video and collect...
Celebrating Innovation: Breakthrough Winners Redefine Go‑to‑Market
Still buzzing from an incredible Breakthrough week. The energy. The ideas. The customers who continue to raise the bar on what’s possible in go-to-market. Huge congratulations to this year’s Breakthrough Award winners — from Rithum and Socure to Blue Yonder,...
Get Instant Funding Verdict by Uploading Deck
Wondering if you can get funded ... or not? Wonder no more Upload your deck to SaaStr AI VC and we'll tell you -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/VLRaBqjNa3
How ChatGPT Can Help You Look After Your Wellbeing
TechRadar’s AI Week 2025 piece outlines how ChatGPT is being used as a low‑pressure companion for mental‑wellness, from prompting daily journaling and reminding users of short meditation or breathing exercises to acting as a sounding board between therapy sessions. The...
Ramp's Valuation Challenges Relevance of Public Markets
Ramp would list as #117 on the NASDQ by Market cap if listed today Are public markets becoming irrelevant? https://t.co/COu9HCWoiu
Triple Your AI Traffic in Six Months or Get Refunded
"If you don’t 3× your AI traffic in six months, we’ll refund you up to $1M." => Now that's what I'm talking about!!
Castari Offers Vercel‑style Platform for Deploying AI Agents
Castari (@castari_dev) is building the Vercel for AI agents. They manage the infrastructure needed for you to deploy sandboxed agents into production. https://t.co/Q2EyM0JR53
AI-Powered Tool Turns Research Into Ready-Made Listicles
started working on a deep research agent to build nice lists for me and one thing led to another... introducing researchoor dot com an ai powered social listicle builder https://t.co/RoAEj1jDYE
Seeking Public Index for Customer Acquisition Costs Across Industries
is there a publicly available index for cost of customer acquisition across various types of businesses? this feels like one of those secrets hiding in plain sight…
Top 9 B2B Link Building Services Ranked by ROI
Nine+ B2B Link Building Services Ranked by ROI: 2025 Buyer’s Guide & Checklist - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/cKgvdRkfa0
AI-Driven Gene Editors Could Cure Countless Genomic Diseases
ai-first design of gene editors has so much potential when you consider that so so many diseases are the result of genomic aberrations
Switched to Grok Imagine, Instantly Created Animated LLM Graphic
Goodbye Midjourney, I'm with Grok Imagine now. Needed a graphic with an abstract representation of an LLM. Got a perfect one in one shot. Then was asked if I want to animate. Got this, complete with sound: https://t.co/GHIRLBdBlQ
Code Execs Correctly to Safeguard SaaS Metrics
Where should you code your execs on the SaaS P&L? Most teams get this wrong — and it wrecks their metrics. Here’s how to code leaders to the right cost centers and protect CAC, gross margin, and OPEX accuracy. Watch: https://t.co/BFmus5yUp7 #SaaS https://t.co/1ZU2FBx4Be
Voize Raises $50M to Free Nurses From Admin
Congrats to voize on their $50M Series A! voize frees nurses from admin so they can focus on what truly matters: people. Today, more than 75,000 nurses in 1,100+ care facilities use voize to document care through natural speech, right at the...
Small Interactions Reveal Team Values, AI Amplifies Them
You can measure a team’s values in the smallest interactions. The wording. The timing. The defaults. AI just amplifies those choices.
AI Exposes Fake Expertise, Rewards Real Thinking
The myth is that AI replaces expertise. The truth is that it punishes fake expertise. It reveals who was guessing and who was actually thinking.
Founders' Tension Ripple: Emotional Contagion Shapes Company Strategy
Most founders underestimate how much emotional contagion they create. A single moment of tension in you can ripple through the company as if it were strategy.