AI Scams Surge: How Consumers and Businesses Can Stay Safe
AI‑driven scams are exploding, with ClickFix attacks up 517% and now representing 8% of blocked incidents, while deep‑fake voice and video impersonations and malicious QR‑code phishing proliferate. In the U.S., online scams cost $16.6 billion in 2024, affecting 73% of adults and eroding trust in brands. The threats are increasingly sophisticated, leveraging generative AI to mimic corporate tone, branding, and real‑time conversation, making detection harder. Experts warn that both consumers and businesses must adopt AI‑enhanced defenses, employee training, and strict verification practices to curb the surge.
AI Is Rewiring Your Customer’s Mind… And Marketing Will Never Be the Same
The post reviews Mark Schaefer’s new book *How AI Changes Your Customers*, arguing that AI is reshaping customers’ cognition, emotions, and decision‑making, forcing marketers to target both algorithms and humans. It highlights the risks of shortcut thinking, reduced patience and...
Feeling Guilty for Not Sharing AI How‑to Guides
At times I feel remiss I don't write more, "Here's how AI can help you" articles. Part of this is because I've been writing "how to" articles for over twenty years, focusing on the pragmatic aspects of a technology like...
Opera Neon Unifies Browser, Chat, and Cloud Automation
The AI browser space is heating up 🔥 OpenAI Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and many others are trying to merge AI and web browsing. @Opera's Neon goes beyond that. It’s an AI-powered workspace where your browser, chat, and cloud automation all merge seamlessly. 🧵 ↓...
Your Personal Leverage Breaks the Revenue Team Illusion
Most revenue teams aren’t “stuck.” They’re trapped in a maze where everyone’s sprinting, no one’s advancing, and half the dashboards are basically fan fiction. People slap on optimism, talk about “momentum,” and quietly hope no one notices the last six...
360‑Camera World Models Will Make Robots Smart Soon
How weird is my life? This morning @boosterobotics head of global markets (Chinese humanoid robots) was sitting at the table next to mine in Abu Dhabi. He agrees with me that world models are about to change robotics deeply and that 360...
Seagate's New Storage Looks to Cover Everything You'll Need for the Age of AI - Including up to 3.2 Petabytes...
Seagate announced its Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems aimed at AI and edge workloads, with the flagship 4U100 delivering up to 3.2 petabytes of capacity in a single 4‑U enclosure. The systems leverage Seagate’s Mozaic HAMR technology and support both SAS...
Remote Work and the Big Breaches of 2025: Cause or Convenient Excuse?
Remote work amplified existing security gaps in 2025 but was rarely the sole cause of major breaches, which were driven by exposed credentials, misconfigured cloud services, weak third‑party controls and human error. Industry analyses show attackers often combined these weaknesses,...
360° Vision Beats Human‑Like Sensors in Robots
It is stupid that a robot needs to “aim” to see things. The robot industry still hasn’t figured out that a 360-degree camera is superior. Same with humanoid robots. A 360-degree camera is far superior to the ones @1x_tech put in theirs. It...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT 5.1 and Group Chats
The episode outlines the new features of ChatGPT 5.1, highlighting faster response times, enhanced reasoning capabilities, and a smoother user interface. It then explains the Group Chats functionality, showing how multiple participants can collaborate in real time and streamline workflow automation....
Design a Tiny Business, Live a Freedom‑Focused Life
I've deliberately kept my business tiny — just me. Because business isn't about scaling to infinity. It's about designing a life you don't need to escape from. I work focused hours, then close my laptop. No investor calls. No endless...
Leaked Documents Shed Light Into How Much OpenAI Pays Microsoft
Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs.
Minority Recap Keeps Control, Majority Sells Liquidity
The fundamental difference between a minority and majority recap: Control. If you sell a majority of your business, you'll receive a high level of liquidity, but all the key decisions will now be out of your control. With a minority...
Harry, Rory, and Jason Return Live at SaaStr London
We're back! Harry, Rory and Jason! And come see the team LIVE at SaaStrLondon.com 1-2 in ... London!! The venture capital playbook is broken. Not bent — broken. In the latest 20VC x SaaStr episode, Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and...
Google’s New AI Training Method Helps Small Models Tackle Complex Reasoning
Researchers from Google Cloud and UCLA unveiled Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL), a framework that reformulates problem solving as a sequence of intermediate actions and provides step‑wise rewards. SRL enables 7‑billion‑parameter models such as Qwen2.5‑7B‑Instruct to gain a 3 % lift on...
Real-Time 3D Home Mapping Showcases Computer Vision Power
Computer vision is fucking cool. Matic robo building a real time 3d map of your house. https://t.co/GSZq4fN11m
AI Grows, Yet Search Share Holds; Gemini, ChatGPT Lead
If you somehow missed our joint report with Datos, A Semrush Company from 2 weeks ago: - AI tools continue to grow - But they're not taking market share from traditional search - Zero-click searches continue to rise (based on...
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
In this episode, Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das recounts his transition from building Glean into a $7 billion AI‑native enterprise search firm to investing early in Anthropic and managing the $100 million Ontology Fund. He explains how Anthropic’s rapid growth and products...
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples This Week
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
Databricks Co-Founder Argues US Must Go Open Source to Beat China in AI
Databricks co‑founder Andy Konwinski warned at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that the United States is losing its AI research edge to China, noting that PhD students are seeing twice as many compelling Chinese AI ideas as American ones. He...
MailButler: Eliminate Your Inbox Guesswork with Email AI and Tracking
The post introduces MailButler, an extension for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail that injects AI‑driven writing, smart scheduling, real‑time tracking, and collaborative tools directly into existing inboxes, turning email into a strategic productivity hub. It highlights key features such as the...
Rapid Iterations Boost CompanyResearch.ai with GPT‑5.1
It's almost 3am, but I'm on a roll. UPDATE: It *was* 3am last night when I started writing this, but I (wisely) decided *not* to post this last night. Day 3 of the CompanyResearch .ai launch. Just released an update:...
If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems
Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the...
Data Shows No AI Bubble Despite Hype
Everyone’s talking about the ‘AI bubble’ but the numbers say otherwise. This chart makes it obvious. Here's what everyone's missing👇
AI Growth Outpaces Bubble Narrative, Numbers Confirm
Everyone’s talking about the ‘AI bubble’ but the numbers say otherwise. This chart makes it obvious. Here's what everyone's missing 👇 For months we’ve seen the headlines: “Tech valuations are inflated.” “AI will crash like the dot-com era.” But the...
Forget AGI—Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the latest GPT‑5.1 model now respects a custom instruction to omit em dashes, a long‑standing formatting quirk that many users have used to spot AI‑generated text. The post sparked mixed reactions, with...
Marketing Brings Market Context to Executive Decision‑Making
Marketing is uniquely able to bring a critical perspective that is very often missing from the executive table - that of the market. The data that drives much of company decision making is typically internal and isolated, but it massively...
Hacked Company CTO Refuses to Pay Ransom Demand, Donates Money to Funding Research Instead
Checkout.com’s CTO Mariano Albera confirmed that the payments firm was hit by a digital extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters group in early November 2025, when attackers accessed a legacy third‑party cloud storage containing internal documents and merchant onboarding files from...
Begin with the Story, Not the Lesson.
Most people start with stuff that doesn’t matter. They tell you the lesson they want you to learn, then tell you the story as an example. But it works much more effectively when you start with the story itself—when you...
OpenAI Says It’s Fixed ChatGPT’s Em Dash Problem
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now respects user instructions to avoid em dashes, fixing a long‑standing quirk that many saw as a telltale sign of AI‑generated text. The issue, dubbed the “ChatGPT hyphen,” had appeared across academic papers, emails, social media...
Junta Explores AI Transforming Financial Services
This is a great interview with Junta by Josue on AI usage in Financial Services! https://lnkd.in/gd7psQE2
Bootstrapped Success Beats VC: $1M Monthly Profit
Over the past 12 months, I spoke to more than 50 top-tier VC firms about investing in my $25M ARR SaaS company. After a full year of pitches, term sheets, and big promises... I walked away from every single one and decided...
World's Largest AI Hackathon Launches with $20K Prizes
This might be the biggest AI hackathon ever: * >6,300 registrants * Runs for 2 weeks (Nov. 14-30) * Open to anyone, anywhere virtually * $20,000 in cash prizes + $3.5M+ in sponsor credits Hosted by @Anthropic and @Gradio, along with 10 sponsors, join...
20VC X SaaStr This Week: Why Most VCs Need to Step Aside, What’s Really Defensible Today, and How to Actually...
In a candid 20VC × SaaStr episode, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings and Rory O’Driscoll argue that the traditional VC playbook is obsolete, urging most VCs, executives and founders from the past decade to step aside for AI‑savvy talent. They outline three viable...
Six Essential Steps for Responsible AI Implementation
Responsible AI Cheat Sheet: 6 Steps for Businesses 🔹 Define Ethical Principles and Business Goals Establish fairness, transparency, accountability, and measurable objectives. 🛡️ Ensure Data Integrity and Fairness Collect diverse datasets, audit for bias, and standardize labeling. 🤖 Build Transparent...
AWS Is Launching a "Meeting Simulator" To Help Train Workers for Stressful Jobs
Amazon Web Services unveiled an AI‑driven Meeting Simulator on its Skill Builder platform, letting users role‑play realistic office meetings with AI personas via voice or text and receive instant feedback on communication, objection handling, and idea presentation. The tool joins...
Magic First 30 Seconds Drives True Product Virality
Gamma won Product Hunt 's product of the Day, Week, and Month. Signups spiked. But then they flatlined. Despite this very hard-to-achieve trifecta, they realized they didn't actually have product-market fit. So they made a bet-the-company move: go all-in on...
Spreadsheets Still Lead FP&A Software Survey
Any surprise here? No, not really. I listed some of the top contenders below. Survey results so far for the FP&A software category. Again, spreadsheets reign supreme, but there are many great players in this space. Some of the contenders...
Intel Panther Lake CPU Leak Suggests Integrated GPUs Are Getting a Potentially Game-Changing Leap in Performance
A leaked Geekbench run of Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H shows its Xe3 integrated graphics (B390) scoring 57,000 in the OpenCL test – about 7% higher than a previous leak of the same chip. The 16‑core CPU (4P+8E+4 low‑power cores) pairs...
AI Factories Valuations Spike with Growth Rate
This week on Clouded Judgement: AI Factories - Median software multiple: 4.8x - High Growth software median: 14.8x - Mid Growth software median: 6.5x - Low Growth software median: 3.7x - 10Y: 4.1% https://lnkd.in/g_Ua83mn
36‑Camera System Lets Fans Choose Angles—Do They Want It?
Pretty cool hack to blend between different video feeds to give you the feeling of free viewpoint video AKA. god's eye view. TL;DR 36 cameras deployed at basketball & badminton venues for China's National Games, letting viewers drag around on their...
9 Reasons Why You Should Consider Onsite LLM Training and Inferencing
Enterprises are increasingly moving large language models (LLMs) from cloud‑based services to on‑premises or private‑cloud environments to gain full control over data, intellectual property, and compliance. On‑site training and inference keep sensitive inputs, model weights, and outputs within the organization’s...
Strategic Narratives Fail Without Long‑Term Commitment
why do shiny new strategic narratives get launched and then forgotten so quickly? and how can we avoid this (yet again)? I'm warming up to Anthony Pierri he's actually pretty nice when you get to know him and has a...
Startups Forge AI-Ready Economy Through API Alliances
The Great API Alliance: How Startups Are Building the AI-Ready Economy https://t.co/9w1SbVHnxg via @TheAIJournal1 #AI #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/I1yjOarzku
What You See Is How You Feel: How Smarter Displays Shape the Way We Work and Feel
Lenovo’s Visuals Business VP George Toh argues that modern displays do more than render pixels—they shape users’ mood, productivity and health by managing light. He highlights how higher refresh rates, adaptive brightness, low‑blue‑light hardware filters and photobiomodulation concepts can reduce...
High‑growth Software Commands ~15× Multiples Vs
This week on Clouded Judgement: AI Factories - Median software multiple: 4.8x - High Growth software median: 14.8x - Mid Growth software median: 6.5x - Low Growth software median: 3.7x - 10Y: 4.1% Article in next post 👇 https://t.co/VtohqmpuhR
PE Should Look Beyond EBITDA to Sustain Growth
PE isn’t always about EBITDA—sometimes you need to break the paradigm to avoid starving the business. Great insights from Matt Blumberg (CEO, Markup AI) on Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast. Watch: https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B #SaaS https://t.co/5JS8OOHdK2
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/hM7rPtZv3w
Stop Looking For Sales Magicians
Jason Lemkin argues that the idea of a "sales magician" is a myth—only a handful ever exist and even they falter when market conditions change. The real breakthrough comes from hiring a first sales rep who can quickly internalize and...
The UK’s Broken Energy System Could Burst Its AI Bubble
AI’s soaring electricity needs – projected to rise 165% by decade’s end – are exposing the UK’s antiquated wholesale power market, which already carries some of the world’s highest industrial electricity prices. Training a single GPT‑scale model consumes as much...