Linktree hit a billion dollar valuation for putting links in a tree. Wild times.

Dan Shipper built a fully featured reading app between meetings without touching code. Opus 4.5 just keeps going.

Valar's hiring an Executive Software Engineer to make their founder move faster. Think Chief of Staff meets full stack.

The employment concept is dying because salary alone can't make people work hard anymore. Tiny founder teams win.

OpenAI's new Codex model is live in Cursor and free until December 11th.

Writing code was the bottleneck before. Now reviewing AI generated code eats 70% of developer time.

Gemini hit 1.35 billion visits in November, up 14% from October. Growth mode.

YC Demo Day works because it's a reunion, not a LinkedIn connect fest. Fewer aggressive pitches, more actual conversation.

40,000 people signed up for Cursor community events in six months. The hype is real.

Harvey raised $160M Series F led by a16z. AI legal tools keep printing money.