Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI‑Powered Slack Cuts Collaboration Time From Months to Days
We saw firsthand the power of AI. 🤖🏈 Slack helped us collaborate w/ MrBeast in just 27 days instead of 6 months. Slackbot became our teammate, a coworker with agentic superpowers to instantly find any information needed and turn it into action. So incredible to see Beast Industries running their entire business on Slack, with humans and AI agents working side-by-side, moving at the speed of imagination. 🚀❤️ https://lnkd.in/e5ktRssE
By Marc Benioff
Social•Feb 9, 2026
DOJ Targets Entire GLP‑1 Market, HIMS in Trouble
Fresh CNBC interview with head of DOJ on $HIMS. Please watch this if you still think that they’re only coming for the oral. This makes it very clear they’re going after the whole GLP-1 operation. Catastrophic for $HIMS. https://t.co/57dc3L1O3A
By Adam May
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Gravity Beats Reach: Redefining B2B Branding in 2026
So - remember those old TomTom ads? “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE the traffic.” Yeah, well the same applies to the sea of beige B2B content we’re all drowning in. If you’re complaining about "slop" while hitting ‘send’...
By Robert Rose
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Composer 1.5 Post‑training Uses More Compute than Pre‑training
“The compute used in our post-training of Composer 1.5 even surpasses the amount used to pretrain the base model.”
By Sarah Guo
Social•Feb 9, 2026
2026 AI Agent Deals: Contracts Over Collaboration?
So we added one new AI Agent to our arsenal this week, and it's a great one, even though it's pretty new. Much more to come. And another? In the end, we decided not to deploy it. What happened? It's pretty...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Founders Quitting in AI Era Shows Lack of Resilience
Watching three 3 founder CEOs at $200m+ ARR quit their start-ups the past 2 weeks or so. On the one hand, I get it. Growth way down, no M&A options, it was supposed to get easier at that stage. Now for...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Listen First: Buyer‑Centric Sales Beat Product‑Centric Scripts
Most sales processes are built backwards. They are product-centric (inside-out), not buyer-centric (outside-in). And yet, almost every research study shows that top-performing sellers listen more than they talk on the first call. Bottom performers do the opposite. A product-centric sales processes roots our...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Feb 9, 2026
LinkedIn Education and Webinars Drive Warm B
Lara Acosta 's 1-person business is about to cross $200k/mo. 0 outbound. 0 cold emails. Here's the breakdown: 1. Education-focused content on Linkedin (positioning) • 2x specific breakdowns (like this one) • 2x broad education on business tips 2. Lead-magnet posts (non-negotiable) • Driving traffic to...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Write SOPs for AI, Not Your Team
You wrote something important. Your team pasted it into AI and asked what you meant. And that bothers you. Here's why. You're writing for people who don't exist. The ones who sit down, read 20 pages, absorb it, and execute perfectly. That...
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Self‑Configuring Backend Lets AI Talk Directly to Customers
openclaw might be an interesting new backend primitive: it's a server that configures itself. instead of wrapping chatgpt to build your product, can your AI just interface with your customers directly?
By Aaron Ng
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Bank Is Just a Third‑tier Kids Fintech Partner
The bad news: the “bank” is a third-tier kids fintech app that partners with Evolve Bank & Trust
By Jason Mikula
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Upcoming Events for Founders & Investors
Three upcoming events worth checking out for anyone building or investing: 🤖 Lead Your Team With AI - February 24, virtual A practical session on how founders can effectively use AI to lead their teams. Featuring Doug Peete, CPO at https://t.co/Wcl0Ro2nMv 🤝...
By Elizabeth Yin
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Stop Personalizing, Start Targeting with Insightful Outreach
This is why all of your outbound fails… These messages share three fundamental flaws: 1. They use personalization (that’s also stupid) 2. They are selfish (about them not me) 3. They include no insight Everyone at scale LOVES what I am doing at Blueprint. They...
By Jordan Crawford
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Google Caps HTML Crawl at 2 MB—Use Validator
🤖 Google has specified in its documentation that its crawl limit for HTML and supported text-based files is 2MB: Check if your HTML content is being cut off, with this free and handy validator by @CharlesMigaud 👇 Take a...
By Aleyda Solis
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Ohio Bill Declares AI Nonsentient, Emphasizes Human Accountability
Kudos to Ohio for the potential for a bill to declare AI systems nonsentient. Not a big fan of using the term Apartheid in any way in reference to the bill, however as you can't deny rights to non sentient algorithms...
By John C. Havens
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Reflecting on the Significance of Today’s Moment
Great post that explores this moment in time...
By Sarah Tavel
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Founders Can Use 100‑Year Bonds to Preserve Equity
If you're a founder raising debt to grow and keep equity: SMART Google issuing 100 year bond:
By Nathan Latka
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Telcos Demand Iris2 Compete with Starlink Pricing
Telcos @orange & @deutschetelekom: We'll only purchase future Iris2 broadband capacity if it's competitive with @Starlink et al. We can't afford to do otherwise. @defis_eu @SES_Satellites @Eutelsat @Hispasat @esa @Starlink #Europeanspaceconf. https://t.co/za6J3f6pSE https://t.co/izhnBnDNQ5
By Peter B. de Selding
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Pulse Slashes Research Time From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇
By Ryan Allis
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Pulse Cuts Tech Research From Hours to Minutes
BIG NEWS: I just launched Pulse. The world's first news reader that cuts research from 2 hours to 5 mins👇 As a founder, I was drowning in information: • Scrolling Twitter for hours • Checking 20+ sites for tech news • Reading newsletters that were...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Teach Humans to Thrive When AI Handles Tech
Everyone's worried about training AI. The real problem? Training humans for a world where AI does all the technical work. What do you even teach them?
By Hiten Shah
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Crew‑12 Launch Delayed to Thursday Amid Weather Uncertainty
At the moment the Crew-12 launch is skld for 5:38 am ET Thurs (delayed from Wed.) and has priority on the range, but at pre-launch presser an hour ago NASA sounded as tho Crew-12 ascent corridor wx probably won't be...
By Marcia Smith
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Uber Kiosks Let Travelers Ride Without a Smartphone
🚨 WOAH: Uber just launched kiosks at LaGuardia Airport. The disruption of taxis is nearly compete. No app. No phone. Walk up, pick a destination, tap to pay, get a paper receipt with your ride details. Powered by Adyen terminals. --- This is the bit...
By Simon Taylor
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Detachable Robotic Hand Redefines Dexterity in Tight Spaces
A robotic hand that can detach from its arm, crawl away, pick things up, and then come back to work again. Yes, it looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family. But the idea behind it is very serious. This project, developed...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 9, 2026
FinTech Funding Soars: Over $1 B Raised in February
February FinTech funding off to flying start with over $1bn raised https://t.co/2EDie8Yh7q $1.02bn raised across 29 rounds. Past two-weeks Fintech funding topped $2.3bn.
By Efi Pylarinou
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Search Citations Shift: ChatGPT Down, Gemini Up
You can also use @ahrefs Brand Radar to look at specific URLs that have lost SEO visibility - in this case, 2 specific self-promoting listicle URLs - to see the change in AI search citations to the page AIO/ChatGPT/Copilot citations also...
By Lily Ray
Social•Feb 9, 2026
UCP Makes Shopify’s Entire Catalog Instantly Searchable
UCP has been live for like a week and there's already a @Shopify product search engine on it. "…the entire Shopify ecosystem is searchable. As more platforms adopt UCP, their product catalogs will become explorable…" ...I used it to find Hot...
By Kurt Elster
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Intuitive Quantum Error Correction: Watrous & Qiskit Series
One of my favorite video series on quantum error correction comes from John Watrous and IBM Qiskit. This series does an excellent job of building intuition for how we protect fragile quantum information, beyond simply presenting the formalism.
By Zlatko Minev
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Adoption Requires Leadership, Not Just Employee Compliance
A corporate position that workers should "just use AI to do stuff" has never been enough. AI use in companies is a leadership problem that involves answering fundamental questions about what people should do with their time, how work is...
By Ethan Mollick
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Self‑promoting Listicles Lose Rankings, Cutting ChatGPT Citations
Another example of a site that started to lose rankings for many of its self-promoting "best" listicles in mid-January, and the downstream effect on ChatGPT citations for that domain at the same time (via @ahrefs Brand Radar)
By Lily Ray
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth
I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI‑First, Word‑of‑Mouth, Personal Brand: SaaS Survival 2026
It's 2026. If you're a SaaS founder, you're probably screwed. Anything you do that works gets copied, CAC is up, LTV is down. Here are the 7 things I see that ARE working - in a world where most things...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Proton Rocket Returns to Pad After Three Years
Proton rocket returned to launch pad this morning in preparation for its first flight in nearly three years on Thursday: https://t.co/DyHPm6OdhH https://t.co/KXqkCYSXcA
By Anatoly Zak
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Avoid Exclusivity: Protect Your Deal Leverage
Buyers and investors will commonly request exclusivity as part of a transaction process. As a founder, you should be hesitant to grant that request. Exclusivity is a period of time in which a seller is locked into negotiation with just one...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Orchestrate Multiple AIs, Don’t Choose Just One
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude vs Grok vs Perplexity — different tools, different strengths. There’s no single “best AI”, only the right AI for the job: ChatGPT → creative work, coding, problem-solving, versatile workflows Gemini → deep integration with Google Workspace + live...
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Feb 9, 2026
New Mineral Sunscreen Eliminates Unsightly White Cast
We developed a mineral #sunscreen that reduces white cast - described in https://t.co/2FW3QLelWT @ACSMatLett & featured @UCLAHealthJCCC https://t.co/PegyIICqN0 & @WomensHealthMag https://t.co/7LgQK3JLex #ChallengeInitiative @UCLA https://t.co/lSeguUK4nB
By Paul Weiss
Social•Feb 9, 2026
IDEAL's A2A Shift Powers Pan‑European Payment Sovereignty
iDEAL to phase into Wero starting in 2026 Strategic implications: Account-to-account payments (A2A) eliminating card network intermediaries. iDEAL processes 1.5B transactions annually with 100% Dutch consumer reach—now gets pan-European scale. Payment sovereignty meets network effects https://t.co/Qmf2G62B8k
By Efi Pylarinou
Social•Feb 9, 2026
New Tech, Data, AI Roles Shaping the Last Five Years
Job titles that have emerged in Tech, Data and AI the last 5 years: 👇
By Ebere Oyek (Nelo) — Data | AI | ML
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI-Driven Monday Metrics Reveal Hidden Growth Patterns
Every Monday I get a deep AI analysis of our metrics across every product area to enjoy with my coffee. Anomalies, growth, trends, recommendations. AI spots patterns human analysts easily miss. I can @ the agent for further questions. AI will soon...
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Crew-12 Launch Delayed To
The Crew-12 launch is being delayed a day due to weather. Now Feb 12 at 5:38 am ET. https://t.co/dE9diCzJMG
By Marcia Smith
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Everyone's a Developer Thanks to Autonomous Agent Swarms
🚨 @AnthropicAI just released their 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Verdict → Everyone has become a developer. We moved from single assistants to autonomous agent swarms. They now form teams, work days on full systems, and let non-techies ship full apps 💥 18-page report in...
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Hype Fades: Embedded Intelligence Outpaces Empty Promises
Today's Operator Links: https://t.co/4GH6Pi68dj 1️⃣ Software's First Act Is Over - @MarcJBrooker 2️⃣ Embedded Intelligence Beats Frontier Models - @om 3️⃣ AI Fatigue Is Real and Nobody Talks About It - @siddhant_K_code 4️⃣ The AI Bubble I Live In (And You Probably Don't) - @joozio 5️⃣...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Japan Airlines Adds LEO Satellite Wi‑Fi to 787‑9 Fleet
Japan Airlines plans to bring LEO satellite-powered inflight connectivity to both existing and new Boeing 787-9s, as part of a broader plan to refresh the twinjets’ interiors. https://t.co/44fW9OnTt7
By Mary Kirby
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Align Content to Buyer Journey to Drive Pipeline
If your content is getting views without an increase in pipeline for your B2B SaaS, then the reason is simple: You’re not matching what buyers need at each stage of their journey. Here’s what happens: - Snackable LinkedIn posts spark interest, but don’t...
By devbasu
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Agents Let One Operator Replace Entire Growth Team
Jacob Bank runs Relay.app (growing 300%+ YoY) with a few employees and hundreds of AI agents. Most SaaS teams think Product-Led Growth requires: – a full growth squad – endless experiments – complex tooling – months of setup That used to be true. It isn’t anymore. AI agents...
By Wes Bush
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Bootstrapped $28M ARR with 33‑person Org Chart
$28M ARR with 33 people… $0 in funding. This is the org chart that made it possible: https://t.co/wYZX8rJB2v
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 9, 2026
NVO Vows Aggressive Patent Enforcement; Danes Cheer Newfound Spine
$NVO exec: "Anybody who is infringing our patents should be very, very much on notice that we take that seriously, and that we will enforce our patents.…If anybody out there thinks we will not, this should be a wake-up...
By Adam May
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Computational Biology: Beyond Coding to Data Detective Work
🧵 So You Want to Be a Computational Biologist? 1/ Bioinformatics is more than just coding. It’s data analysis, modeling, pipelines, and detective work. Here’s what you must know. 👇 https://t.co/oJxsWkBYzP
By Ming Tang
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Crew‑12 Launch Set for Feb 12 After Weather Delay
From NASA: NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier 5:38 a.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 12, for launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Mission teams completed a weather review on Monday and elected to waive off a Wednesday, Feb. 11, launch opportunity due...
By Jeff Foust
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Three Simple Tricks to Instantly Raise Your Prices
3 dumbfoundingly simple ways to raise your prices: (no hostage negotiation skills required) 1. Switch to giving 3 higher price options Make your new entry level option → your current premium option :) 2. Switch to outcomes instead of quantities Increase site conversion 10% is better...
By Adam Shilton