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  • AI Product Analytics Tools for SaaS Startups

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    AI Product Analytics Tools for SaaS Startups

    Compare Amplitude, Mixpanel and PostHog by AI analysis, event quality, setup effort and usage costs. Includes a practical verification pilot.

  • Personal Agent Protocol

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    Personal Agent Protocol

    An open standard for personal agents to interact with businesses.

  • Claude for Startups

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    Claude for Startups

    Get a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in API credits.

  • PhotoCraft

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    PhotoCraft

    An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust

  • How changing one meal can transform your day

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    How changing one meal can transform your day

    Managing glucose spikes is crucial for sustained energy and overall health. Simple dietary changes, like switching to savory breakfasts and starting meals with vegetables, can stabilize glucose levels, preventing energy crashes and…

  • Why the AI bubble is poised to burst

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    Why the AI bubble is poised to burst

    The AI industry's foundation is fragile, marked by extreme concentration risk, a lack of competitive moats for LLM providers, and a precarious circular financing model. Hyperscalers' massive, cash-flow-negative AI investments further destabilize…

  • Aim for the Guts: deep AI Integration for Economic transformation

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    Aim for the Guts: deep AI Integration for Economic transformation

    Jev introduces a new software primitive that integrates AI with confidence levels, enabling natural language descriptions and state machines. This approach prioritizes reliability, redefined as 'similar intelligence every time,' to embed AI…

  • How AI’s Rapid Evolution Reshapes business and investment

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    How AI’s Rapid Evolution Reshapes business and investment

    Bill Ackman argues that AI is the most transformative technology of our time, driving a venture capital bubble with rapid, high-valuation funding rounds and significantly increasing disruption risk for established businesses.

  • How the ‘second mouse’ strategy builds billion-dollar companies

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    How the ‘second mouse’ strategy builds billion-dollar companies

    Kevin Ryan is one of the leading entrepreneurs and investors in New York. Often called the “Godfather of NYC tech,” he is the founder and CEO of AlleyCorp, a New York based…

  • Why human judgment and pruning matter more in the AI age

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    Why human judgment and pruning matter more in the AI age

    Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest…