Heavy AI Adoption Linked To More Hiring, Not Layoffs, New Data Shows
A new Ramp study shows that the companies spending the most on AI are actually hiring more and not cutting the workforce.

Impressions from visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor
A peek into where software engineering is headed from inside the sector’s leading AI labs. Agents running in the cloud are a major trend, while coding harnesses are spreading beyond the craft

How top PMs increase their leverage with AI
A framework for getting the most out of AI in your day-to-day-work

Building in Public Is Not What It Used To Be
Everyone is panicking about copycats. The real change is what your openness now signals to the people watching you.

The State of the AI Economy 📈, Ship Your First AI Agent in a Day🛠️, How to Steal a Customer Base🍴

Accretion, Dilution, and the Cold Hard Truth of M&A Math
Don’t get blindsided by dilution or debt. Here is the exact toolkit we use to pressure-test every transaction.

Your AI App Has a Hole in It Right Now
The security checklist with copy-paste prompts most builders only find after something breaks

AI Budget Increases, Fable’s Potential, AI’s Cyber Frontier: Takeaways From Big Technology’s AI Summit
Don't expect the spending to slow down anytime soon, and more lessons from a day with the leaders of today's biggest AI companies.

9 Videos From CVAI London: Cohere's Aidan Gomez, Index Ventures' Danny Rimer, Recursive's Josh Tobin & More
Watch the on-stage talks from our latest Cerebral Valley AI Summit

America Invents, China Applies
Beijing's plans for a state-scale AI push.

"We Just Raised $20M at a $100M Valuation" | What Does "Valuation" Mean?
Understanding valuations and where headlines can be deceiving


Weekly Dose of Optimism #199
Stripe Intercept, Housing Act, Nuclear Loans, Brain Ultrasound, Soviet Papers + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses

Pivot or Die. The Market Is Trying to Tell You Something
The honest framework for knowing when your idea is the problem and you are not.

CVAI London: European Democracies on Alert, Bubble Worries, Anthropic Bullishness, Agents & Compute Shortages
Notes from talks with Cohere's Aidan Gomez, Alphabet's R. Martin Chavez, Recursive's Josh Tobin, Index's Danny Rimer, Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru & More

Saplings: Outsiders
Part I of our series studying the early lives of extraordinary entrepreneurs.

The One Thing AI Startups Keep Underestimating
When the product stops being a moat, the founder becomes a creative director. That job is more glamorous and far less safe than it looks.

Hot AI Summer: What the Latest Talent Moves Mean in the Great Foundation Model Race
Seminal names including Andrej Karpathy, Noam Shazeer, John Jumper & Barret Zoph have changed horses at a key juncture. Here’s what insiders say is happening.

The Fund That Backed Revolut at £300K. Now Raising $320M for What Comes Next
Seedcamp just closed the largest raise in its nearly 20-year history. Fund III is tracking to a 20x net return. Here is the deck, the numbers, and the playbook behind Europe’s most consistent early-st

Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time
An overview of what’s changed in engineering during the last six months, how various tech companies are changing how they work, and why slowing down could be a sensible strategy