Cursor Hits $1B in Revenue
PLUS: Self-driving's second-order effects
Karpathy's giddy because self-driving will terraform cities like nothing we've seen in decades.
X rolled out encrypted messaging, calls, and file transfer. X Money is coming soon and they're hiring.
Cursor raised $2.3B at $1B in annualized revenue. The tool now writes more code than any other agent worldwide.
NotebookLM now lets you type a prompt to customize video overview styles. Their expectations are sky high.
GPT-5.1 hits the API with two new coding models. Prompt caching now lasts 24 hours instead of minutes.
OpenAI built a way to train small models with mechanisms humans can understand, closing the interpretability gap.
Mira Murati's startup valuation jumped to $50B, 4x higher than just months ago.
Wan 2.2 lets you film once and AI generates infinite UGC variations across demographics, cutting production costs by 90%.
A lot of people think none of the jobs on LinkedIn are actually hiring anymore.
Some folks quit their jobs to chase dreams. Others get promoted and build side projects with discipline.
The gap between how normies use AI and how cutting-edge users leverage top models is insane and growing.
Lightfield launched today as a CRM that builds itself from unstructured customer conversations, shaped by hundreds of founders.
Cursor hit $1B in annualized revenue incredibly fast, continuing to smash expectations while shipping great product.
Boardy says 10% of active fundraising happens through their platform. They're connecting overlooked founders with aligned investors.
The highest MRR for an AI startup just landed on TrustMRR. Founder is French, naturally.
The 2015 launch checklist had eight items. The 2025 version has two: stupid viral video, waitlist added.
Capability is table stakes now. Founders hiring at startups are looking for autonomy instead, especially with AI tools.
If you bought the Nasdaq at peak 2000, you'd wait 18 years to break even after accounting for inflation.
Before AI it was flyover country. After AI it's data center country now.