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ChatGPT Opens Its Doors to Businesses and Forward-Deployed Engineer Jobs Up 4.6x

Plus: agents that check their own work by looking at it, why agents can't ask the right question, Cardboard's Mac video editor, and 5 startups funded yesterday

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ChatGPT and Codex Will Share One Usage Pool, and Upwork's $450M AI-Skills Run Rate

Plus: plan-scoped credentials for agents, why proactive AI oversteps, Raah.dev reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday

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Britain Probes Meta's Plan to Crawl Your Website for AI, but agents are in no hurry to order from DoorDash

Plus: AI agents that run your chores on a schedule, why people think the AI art they love was made by a human, Riverside's new podcast agents reviewed, and three quick hits.

PLAYS AND SIGNALS

GTM, Growth, Trends and PLG

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The draft-review loop: turn every reviewer into your next user

Every request for feedback brings a new person into your product. Here is how to give that reviewer real value and a reason to start their own draft.

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Let solo users bring their work into a team: the personal-to-team move

How v0 lets people move personal chats into a team workspace with their history, and how to build the same bridge in your product.

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Add a "Made with" badge: how Gamma and Tally get new users free, and how you can too

Badge copy, placement, rewards and tracking for turning your users' shared work into sign-ups without ad spend.

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The Trojan Horse Chrome Extension

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Your Local AI Assistant Pipeline

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The AEO Operating Manual

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The Zero to One Distribution Playbook (Deck)

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The AI Marketing Automation Playbook

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The Referral and Embedded Growth Playbook

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Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic back one robots.txt token for opting out of AI training

Plus: async subagents that report back on their own, why the best coding agent fully finishes only 26.4% of edit requests, Faylee reviewed, and 5 newly funded startups

Oct 31, 2026

Mistral Opens Its 1T-Parameter Model, and 40% of Pull Requests Now Start With an Agent

Plus: a durable step journal for agents that crash, a Berkeley–Microsoft paper that cuts coding-agent costs by up to 31%, Spacesheep reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday

Oct 31, 2026

GPT-6.1 Terra Halves API Prices, and the No-Signup First Task That Recruits Users

Plus: LangChain's code-enforced agent gates, the VibeVideoBench paper, Dedica reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday

Oct 30, 2026

Anthropic Files to Go Public on $16.3B in Half-Year Revenue

Plus: the read-back loop that makes voice agents get details right, a benchmark that catches agents passing the wrong way, Loqui reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday.

Oct 28, 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro Closes In on Opus and 86% of Small Businesses Use AI

Plus: can selling to AI agents really bring you users, Shopify's hint-don't-answer loop, 7 ways RLHF goes wrong, a Notion Auto review, 3 startups funded this week, and quick hits.

Oct 25, 2026

ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries, and "Build With AI" Hiring Demand Up 51%

Plus: how Anthropic risk-tiers its code review, an IBM paper on why RAG tricks don't stack, Radaric reviewed, 5 startups funded yesterday, and quick hits.

Oct 24, 2026

Flint puts a 40B Coding Model on a Laptop, and the median AI paid user pays $25 a month

Plus: why AI won't overtake search in 2026, per a 2025 EMARKETER forecast, cheap-model guardrails that rival frontier judges, Fastlane 2.0 reviewed, and 5 startups funded yesterday.

Oct 24, 2026