Tech Rundown
News from the venture and tech ecosystem
Why Sam Altman Cut Costs by 90%
Scraping competitor email sequences to monitoring patent filings: Inside the intelligence operations that traditional consulting never saw coming
backlash was so intense OpenAI had to bring back the "inferior" model & users celebrated with tears of joy
Why companies with terrible products are growing faster than anyone else
Half of Anthropic's revenue comes from six coding apps
Anthropic turning to the Middle East, and "enriching dictators"
Meta, Google, and Microsoft's $100M+ individual packages
Geopolitical tensions create tailwinds for AI companies that prioritize trust over benchmarks
Behind closed doors, OpenAI is building the infrastructure to cut Microsoft out.
The Korean giant is betting big on the AI startup that's growing 20% month-over-month
A deep dive into Waymo's numbers
AI makes coding cheaper, owning attention becomes the only competitive moat left
