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Inflation came in hot, pushing odds of another Fed rate hike to ~49% and dropping BTC to ~$82.8K.→
Bitcoin long-term holders have sold only 3.16% of supply vs 37-38% in previous bull markets, implying the bull run is only ~8.5% done.→
Morgan Stanley plans to support tokenized equities on its ATS by Q1 2027 and is building wallet infrastructure.→
Nikhyl Singhal says job-search advice now expires every six months, and frontier AI roles no longer require working at OpenAI or Anthropic.→
Anthony Maggio joined Runway as CPO, Gadi Ben-Zvi leads AI platform and products at Eli Lilly, and Chandra Raghavan moved from Meta to Google Search AI.→
The new playbook values leadership skills, staying hands-on, and treating the startup-or-big-company choice as a false dichotomy.→
Google finished rolling out its September 2026 Spam Update and launched a UGC Fresh Data Program to surface authentic user-generated content in Search.→
A study of 15 million ChatGPT queries found 6.8% used site: operators for fan-out, with 75.9% of top site: searches targeting brand sites.→
AI Overviews appear for 83% of branded searches, raising concerns that competitors and external sources can control brand narratives.→
Reformation launched a 'Good Sport' fall campaign featuring Olivia Jade Giannulli, referencing the 2019 college admissions scandal and drawing mixed reactions.→
Zip expanded its Philadelphia sports sponsorships by adding the 76ers, prioritizing deep local brand presence over broad awareness.→
Contentful published a report outlining five questions marketing leaders must answer to succeed in the agentic web era.→
Claude Code desktop app now runs multiple coding sessions side by side with parallel tabs, a live to-do list, and /btw side questions.→
DigUp brings fully local semantic search to macOS photos, audio, and code using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 with no cloud or account required.→
Gemini 4 Argon cuts bad code commits by 30%, boosts AI-written code by 35%, and generates up to 1M output tokens in one shot.→
PitchBook data via WSJ shows U.S. PE fundraising is down for a fourth straight year, annualizing to ~$296B in 2026 vs $330B in 2025.→
SaaStr says 99% of reps and CROs never ask prospects 'what it would really take' to switch, the key to stealing customers.→
SaaStr AI Annual 2027 ('Agentfest') is set for May 11-12, 2027, after top sponsors averaged 957 leads at the 2026 edition.→
Anthropic replaced Git with an in-house Scion version control system, cutting CPU/memory requirements 200x and accelerating CI checkouts from minutes to seconds.→
Workday made Sana its primary interface and launched Agent Harness for building AI agents on finance and HR data.→