News•Oct 31, 2025
Why Sam Altman Is Scared & Why People Are Giving Up on MCP | EP99.23
The episode "Why Sam Altman is Scared & Why People Are Giving Up on MCP" continues the "This Day in AI" podcast’s informal, middle‑of‑the‑road take on AI, using humor and personal anecdotes to discuss Sam Altman’s apparent anxieties and the waning enthusiasm for the MCP project. Michael and Chris blend light‑hearted commentary with examples of their own AI experiments—like prank calls and attempted phishing—to illustrate broader industry sentiments. Their approach is deliberately unpretentious, aiming to make complex AI topics accessible to average listeners while highlighting the human side of tech hype.
By This Day in AI Podcast
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AI Boosts Coding, but Design Decisions Become New Bottleneck
Another example of the unexpected changes of work due to AI agents is that we will start to see new bottlenecks emerge that we didn’t predict before. In a world where AI agents make engineers 2-3X more productive, the new...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Chat‑based AI Prototyping Finally Matches Your Product’s Look
Huge congrats to @alloy_app for growing 10x in less than 30 days!! -> https://t.co/MGKugp77a2 Alloy is AI prototyping for PMs that actually looks like your product. 1⃣Capture your app in one click 2⃣Chat to build features in minutes 3⃣Share with team/customers. Already in...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Oct 31, 2025
Microsoft's Agent Platform Play
Microsoft is positioning GitHub as the central hub for AI coding agents through its new Agent HQ, allowing tools like OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, and others to integrate directly with the platform. Executives Jay Parikh and Jared Palmer stress that GitHub...
By Sources
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Self‑Awareness Is the Key to Human‑Centred Tech
Wise and timely message, by Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex . In a world shaped by algorithms and automation, the greatest act of digital literacy is self-awareness. Humanizing technology means keeping empathy, creativity, and purpose at the center, using digital tools...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Attention Compounds First; Revenue Follows Later
Attention is the only metric that compounds before revenue.
By Hiten Shah
News•Oct 31, 2025
Microsoft’s Agent Platform Play
At GitHub Universe, Microsoft unveiled Agent HQ, a new interface that lets AI coding assistants such as OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google, Cognition and xAI agents plug directly into the GitHub ecosystem. Senior Vice President Jared Palmer said the goal is...
By The Verge AI
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Simulated Worlds Train Robots for Real‑World Factories
The future of simulated worlds with founder of https://t.co/VsxIMEnd0L Teaches robots how to work on factory floors. At Llama Lounge, @jowyang’s San Francisco AI event. https://t.co/e0tPK4eQwX
By Robert Scoble
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Azure’s Growth Outpaces AWS and Google Cloud
Cloud Giants Update: AWS (Amazon): $132B run rate growing 20% YoY (last Q grew 17%) Azure (Microsoft): ~$93B run rate (estimate) growing 39% YoY (last Q grew 39%) Google Cloud (includes GSuite): $61B run rate growing 34% YoY (last Q grew 32%, neither...
By Jamin Ball
News•Oct 31, 2025
I Tried Sora’s Character Cameos and Now My Dog Thinks She’s a Movie Star
OpenAI expanded its Sora video‑generation app with a new Character Cameo feature that lets users upload short clips of pets, toys or objects and turn them into reusable AI‑animated characters for AI‑generated videos. The tool automatically assigns a name, tag...
By TechRadar
Social•Oct 30, 2025
20VC and SaaStr Return with Top Investors
We're back!! 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings , ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
A Little Memory Delivers Most AI Performance Gains
"Memory" is one of the top topics in AI today. Memory makes almost all our AI apps run better. But how much memory ... do you need? I honestly don't know, but my learnings so far: - "Digital Jason"...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Oct 30, 2025
Meet Aardvark, OpenAI’s Security Agent for Code Analysis and Patching
OpenAI has launched Aardvark, a GPT‑5‑powered autonomous security‑researcher agent now in private beta, that continuously analyzes code, validates exploits and generates patches. The agent follows a four‑stage pipeline—threat modeling, commit‑level scanning, sandbox validation and automated patching—integrated with GitHub and Codex,...
By VentureBeat
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Chat‑Feed Sponsored Snaps Drive 2× Conversions
If there's 1 thing I'll always open, it's a DM. When I see that message notification, I tap it immediately. Every time. For Snapchat for Business, that goes double. Lately, those messages have included the new Sponsored Snaps. And I remember them. Because...
By Ari Murray
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Babies Invent Crawling, Proving Invention Is Human Core
Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't...
By François Chollet
Podcast•Oct 30, 2025•0 min
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
In this episode, Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe’s Head of Data & AI, explains how Stripe leverages AI at scale—using domain‑specific payment embeddings to boost fraud detection from 59% to 97% and launching the Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI, now adopted...
By Latent Space
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Informational Quality Beats Production Value Every Time
Stop debating Quality vs Quantity. That's the wrong question. This is why your content isn't working; you're chasing the wrong kind of quality. Many brands still think high production value equals high impact. But that's not what your customers care about. - A...
By A. Lee Judge
Blog•Oct 30, 2025
While Loops with Tool Calls
The episode revisits PromptLayer CEO Jared Zoneraich to discuss the evolution from prompt engineering to "context engineering," emphasizing the integration of retrieval, tool calls, and multi‑model pipelines in AI applications. He explains how newer reasoning models simplify steering LLMs and...
By Practical AI
Blog•Oct 30, 2025
JAMF Goes Private for $2.2 Billion. That’s 3.3x ARR. Why B2B Can Be a Long, Hard Road
Private‑equity firm Francisco Partners agreed to acquire JAMF for $2.2 billion, a 50% premium to its recent share price but less than half the $4.6 billion market cap the company commanded on its 2020 IPO. The deal values JAMF at roughly 3.1×...
By SaaStr
News•Oct 30, 2025
Caught Cheating in Class, College Students “Apologized” Using AI—And Profs Called Them Out
Professors of the University of Illinois' introductory Data Science Discovery course discovered that a large number of students were falsely marking attendance by using a clicker tool from off‑campus, prompting an investigation of server logs and IP addresses. When the...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Oct 30, 2025
ChatGPT Was Down for some Free Users - Here's What You Need to Know
On October 30 2025, OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffered a partial outage that primarily affected free‑tier users, following a major Microsoft Azure disruption. Down Detector reported a spike to over 2,600 error reports around 3 PM ET, prompting OpenAI to confirm “increased errors on ChatGPT conversations...
By TechRadar
News•Oct 30, 2025
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Oct 28, 2025
The post recaps a SaaS‑focused mastermind call that covered four practical challenges: hiring a product manager for a company approaching $5 M ARR, defending against California Privacy Act pixel lawsuits, acquiring a small software business, and optimizing year‑end taxes for a...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Neo's $20K Price Risky; $500/Mo Housekeeping Steal
After some time of thought on the 1x Neo $20K for Neo is a significant investment with a lot of risk since the bot is proprietary. $500/month is an outright steal for housekeeping tho, even if it's through a teleoped robot. No need...
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Adobe's Spatial Lighting Mode Relights Images via AI
Okay coolest Adobe Sneaks of the year award goes to Project Light Touch. Adobe calls this "spatial lighting mode" -- interactively move your light source around within a 3D volume and voila -- your image is accurately relit. They're probably using ML...
By Bilawal Sidhu
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Upcoming Community Session on Agentic FP&A & SaaS Forecasting
Some great stuff coming up in our community. Agentic FP&A and Forecasting Saas Revenue. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/gD2avXCn
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 30, 2025
US Hardware Costs 20x Higher; Go to Shenzhen
“Building in USA is 20x more expensive than in India or China.” (At small scales). Am in a talk by @anithpatel1 who is making an AI hardware device that listens and does a variety of things. Mostly for businesses with specialized...
By Robert Scoble
News•Oct 30, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Oct 29, 2025
The SaasRise Mastermind recap outlines practical strategies for scaling SaaS businesses, from offshore marketing hires and cost‑effective growth leadership to building informal advisory relationships and managing product roadmaps. Key takeaways include leveraging South African agencies like Roocruit for T‑shaped marketers,...
By SaasRise
News•Oct 30, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of October 26-30, 2025
The post tackles the "messy middle" of scaling SaaS businesses, offering practical guidance on hiring product managers, building cost‑effective marketing teams, and mastering cold‑email outreach with AI‑driven tactics. It stresses using internal talent and AI for product work, hybrid offshore‑onshore...
By SaasRise
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Apple Leverages Gaussian Splatting for Realistic 3D Avatars
The secret's out -- Apple's persona avatars and 3D photos owe their quality boost to none other than Gaussian splatting. "In our meeting, Norris explains that Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create those surprisingly convincing 3D facial scans." "Norris says Apple...
By Bilawal Sidhu
Blog•Oct 30, 2025
The Great VC Reshuffle: OpenAI’s $500B Restructuring, A16z’s $10B Mega-Fund, and Why Two-Thirds of Series B Investments Fail
OpenAI completed a landmark restructuring into a public‑benefit corporation, separating its for‑profit arm valued at roughly $500 billion and leaving CEO Sam Altman with no equity while Microsoft’s $13 billion stake positions it for a near‑10× return. Andreessen Horowitz announced a $10 billion...
By SaaStr
Social•Oct 30, 2025
DeepLearning.AI
DeepLearning.AI Pro is now generally available -- this is the one membership that keeps you at the forefront of AI. Please join! There has never been a moment when the distance between having an idea and building it has been...
By Andrew Ng
News•Oct 30, 2025
Affinity Takes on Adobe in the Best Way Possible - by Making All Its Software Free for Everyone
Affinity announced that its three professional‑grade apps—Designer, Photo, and Publisher—are now completely free for all users, bundled into a single suite. The change follows the company's 2024 acquisition by Canva and dispels earlier fears of a shift to subscription pricing....
By TechRadar
Social•Oct 30, 2025
AI Agent Clones Recruiters, Boosts Hiring Speed Tenfold
AI didn’t replace recruiters, it cloned them. Serra is an AI recruiting agent that learns how you hire - your tone, your judgment, your style - and works 24/7 to find and engage the right candidates, both across the web...
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Become an AI Engineer in Just 40 Hours
🚀 Land your dream LLM job in just 40 hours! AI & LLM engineers are in really high demand, but the skills gap holds many back. If you have some Python experience, we’ll teach you PRECISELY what employers want through hands-on projects...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Oct 30, 2025
GPT-6 Rebranded as GPT-6-7, You're Welcome
GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7, you're welcome
By Sam Altman
Social•Oct 30, 2025
MarTech and ProductTech Aren't
MarTech and ProductTech are not the same thing, not even close. Had to explain this to a founder today who was insisting that event driven analytics is all you need. Guess what? They have never tried to do any marketing.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Kids' Early Rolling Mimics Reinforcement Learning
Watching kids learn these first traits really does look a heck of a lot like reinforcement learning. Our twins' first mode of travel was just rolling to the desired location.
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Amazon Staff Warn Fast AI Threatens Democracy, Jobs, Planet
This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer: "We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth." https://t.co/0rLWQwTa6S
By Karen Hao
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Get 20% Off Superhuman or Grammarly with Superpower
Wow — if you're subscribed to @Superhuman or Grammarly, email @superpower and they'll give you 20% off! 💜 Nicely done @maxmarchione and team 😄👏
By Rahul Vohra
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Buy Extra Codex Credits Beyond Subscription Limits
If you want to use more Codex after you hit your subscription limits, you can now buy credits as needed. This is something we expect to do for compute-intensive features; it will let us keep subscription prices low for most users...
By Sam Altman
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Unified API Lets You Trade Across Prediction Markets
Dome (@GetDomeAPI) is a unified API for prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Trade and analyze data across multiple platforms with one simple API. https://t.co/YsZk6Elw2Y Congrats on the launch, @kurushdubash & @princeofbothell! https://t.co/MxUm8aAQEE
By YCombinator
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Steady SaaS: $1.9M Revenue, 30% Growth, 1% Churn
This one’s as steady as SaaS gets. Live on @acquiredotcom: Salesforce native SaaS powering human services agencies with automated case tracking and compliance infra. > $1.9M TTM revenue > $467K TTM profit > 30% YoY growth > 1% churn Full listing: https://t.co/qcO6uCJvdC https://t.co/PvFgsCdfGH
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Fast Coding Model Feels Overpriced Despite Performance Gains
The speed of a faster coding model is worth it, but it seems mis-priced. C1 gobbles through files, reasons more, expect extra feedback to reach similar place as slower model do with less of everything. Intuitively it feels more expensive "the...
By Alex J. Champandard
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Gen Z Drives AI Adoption; B2B Buying Goes Generative
Gen Z leads surge in daily AI use, as #B2B buying enters the generative era https://t.co/Wg9NREcc3z
By Marissa Pick
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Boredom, Not IQ, Limits Mastery—Persist to Reach Flow
The bottleneck for deep skill isn't usually intelligence, but boredom tolerance. Learning has an activation energy: below a certain skill threshold, practice is tedious, but above it, it becomes a self-sustaining flow state. The entire battle is persisting until that transition.
By François Chollet
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Patience and Consistency Outperform Instant-Result Myths
Most Businesses take years to get off the ground. Don’t buy the myth of instant wins. Patience and consistency are the real growth hacks. https://t.co/VJWBSGZIzg
By Eric Siu
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Authentic Expert Content Beats AI Visibility Hacks
Agreed. You don't need a "hack" for AI visibility. You need authentic, expert, branded content.
By Tom Pick
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Founders Must Navigate AI IPO, $10B A16z, Series B Risks
We're back!! @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me! 1/ Three seismic shifts hit venture this week that every founder needs to understand: 1⃣OpenAI's $500B restructuring clears path to $2T IPO 2⃣A16z raises $10B (but it's more matchable than you think) 3⃣66% of Series B investments...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
AI OS and Google Multimodal Model Power Robot Future
Flowith is bending my mind with its new AI OS. And Google’s multimodal model is what a lot of robot companies are using. I see where this is going.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Oct 30, 2025
AI Features Boost Searches, Not Replace Them
Google reports that AI features are adding searches rather than replacing them, pointing to more AI-led sessions and steady traffic flowing to sites. https://t.co/dZrj6V51Ez via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal
By Tom Pick