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Palantir’s CEO: “We Will Grow 10x … With Fewer Employees Than We Have Today”
What Palantir, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Are Really Saying About the Future of SaaS Economics Bottom Line Up Front: Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s audacious goal of “10x revenue with 3,600 people” (down from 4,100 current employees) isn’t an outlier—it’s the new playbook every public B2B company is now racing to execute. The data shows some... Continue Reading
Perplexity’s bid for Google Chrome could be just the beginning
Perplexity, the AI search startup that hasn’t even cracked 100 million monthly users, just made a $34.5 billion cash offer to buy Chrome from Google. The unsolicited bid comes as the DOJ prepares its remedy decision after ruling Google illegally maintained a search monopoly. The timing makes sense, but questions remain. Perplexity won’t name its […]
The Dawn of Vibe-able Apps: Why 2026+ SaaS Must Just Do What You Want
MCP is great but in 2025+ we should also be able to ‘vibe use’ any application Just tell it in a prompt: – what you want it to actually do– what workflows you want added– what dashboards you need– what integrations you want– what you need changed Just in plain English.… — Jason SaaStr.Ai Lemkin... Continue Reading
Meet the first batch of VCs set to judge Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Startup Battlefield 200 is the crown jewel of TechCrunch Disrupt. From thousands of applicants, only the top 20 will take the Stage at Disrupt 2025 (October 27-29, San Francisco) to pitch their vision to panels of top-tier VCs in front of a live audience. Every contender is chasing game-changing impact — and we’re here for the drama, the breakthroughs, and the big reveals.
How games are mobilising millions for climate action
When the subject of climate change comes up, video games might seem an unlikely ally. But as the games industry prepares to descend on Cologne next week for its annual Gamescom get-together (August 20...
Is superhuman disease avoidance the secret to a long life?
Dr Karin Modig from the Karolinska Institutet looked at data from more than a quarter of a million Swedes to discover the secrets to longevity. Read more: Is superhuman disease avoidance the secret to a long life?
Visla
All-in-One AI Video Production for Modern Teams Discussion | Link
Harmony AI Voice Assistant
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AI’s Real Impact on Marketing: Honest Truths from Wiz’s Founding CMO on What’s Really Changing
We recently did a deep dive on Wiz’s marketing strategies and motions with their founding CMO Raaz Herzberg, who was there from the beginning. She started off as engineer in fact — not a marketer. The full deep dive is here. But this post is a summary of AI in marketing, what everyone’s interested in.... Continue Reading
Flight Deals
Describe your trip, get the best flight deals. Discussion | Link
Top affordable STEM upskilling courses for careers in 2025
Cost shouldn’t be a deterrent to furthering your career, so why not consider a free or lower cost course as part of your professional development? Read more: Top affordable STEM upskilling courses for careers in 2025
CarTrawler acquires French insurtech Koala to expand embedded ancillary offerings
Irish B2B traveltech CarTrawler has acquired Paris-based insurtech Koala, in a move that significantly broadens its portfolio of high-margin ancillary services beyond car rental and mobility into tra...
Former OpenAI policy adviser appointed UK Prime Minister’s AI adviser
A former OpenAI executive has been appointed as the UK prime minister's new AI adviser, replacing Matt Clifford, who stood down from the role in July this year. Jade Leung is currently the chief techn...
Irish medtech Sports Impact Technologies raises €650K for better concussion detection
Dublin-based startup Sports Impact Technologies has raised 650,000 in Pre-Seed funding to roll out its behind-the-ear wearable device that detects potentially dangerous head impacts in real time, aim...
AI coding start-up Cognition raises $500m in new funding round – WSJ
If the reports from the Wall Street Journal are true, the $500m round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund would bring Cognition’s valuation to nearly $10bn. Read more: AI coding start-up Cognition raises $500m in new funding round – WSJ
Dear SaaStr: I’ve Bootstrapped to $3m ARR with Founder-Led Sales. Am I Ready to Hire a Full Time VP Sales?
Dear SaaStr: I’m a solo-founder, bootstrapper, 3M ARR. SO far I have run the sales team myself. I have 2 fulltime sales managers, and 2 part-time SDRs. I want to transition out of the interim VP sales roles I ‘m having, and look for my first “real” VP of sales. What advice can you give... Continue Reading
GoodsFox
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Intel shares up as US administration reportedly in talks to take stake
Donald Trump’s administration continues its unprecedented intervention in the chips industry, with a stake in troubled chips operator Intel on the cards. Read more: Intel shares up as US administration reportedly in talks to take stake
Bending Spoons raises €500m debt to support new acquisitions
The company plans to use the new funds to close another acquisition by early next year, reports Bloomberg. Read more: Bending Spoons raises 500m debt to support new acquisitions
Tech taught: 8 edtech start-ups worth watching
From literacy tools to mobile microlearning, we have put together a list of edtech start-ups worth learning about. Read more: Tech taught: 8 edtech start-ups worth watching
Irish medtech start-up raises €650,000 for head injury wearable
The money raised in the pre-seed funding round will be used to roll out the company’s beta model and address the issue of undetected head injuries in athletes. Read more: Irish medtech start-up raises 650,000 for head injury wearable
VIVE Eagle AI Glasses
Your AI companion, in a stylish frame Discussion | Link
That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget
New research reveals open-source AI models use up to 10 times more computing resources than closed alternatives, potentially negating cost advantages for enterprise deployments.
Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)
While OpenAI’s GPT-5 is highly-performant, capable and an important step forward, it features just faint glimmers of true agentic AI.
The Latest 20VC+SaaStr: GPT-5’s Underwhelming Launch, Shopify’s 91% Growth with 30% Fewer Staff, and Why You Don’t Need Half Your Company
We’re back on 20VC, with Harry, Rory from Scale and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin. On GPT-5’s strategic deflation, the ruthless efficiency revolution, and why you literally don’t need half your company. Bottom Line Up Front The Bottom Line Up Front: Jason’s Rule: “If you haven’t grown because of AI, you’ve failed.” After 18 months since ChatGPT... Continue Reading
Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones
For enterprise teams and commercial developers, this means the model can be embedded in products or fine-tuned.
Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down
Cohere's market proposition has always been to offer secure LLMs specifically geared for enterprise use, not for consumers.
SupaBird Followers Map
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Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers
Anthropic launches learning modes for Claude AI that guide users through step-by-step reasoning instead of providing direct answers, intensifying competition with OpenAI and Google in the booming AI education market.
Lovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months
Lovable is a vibe coding startup growing phenomenally quickly, according to new sales projections from CEO Anton Osika.
Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever
It humorously calls this family the Model Zoo because one is like the size of a fly's brain and the other the size of a chicken's.
Is AI going to be your next chief of staff or company peacekeeper?
As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, for companies it has the potential to take on additional human-oriented tasks. Read more: Is AI going to be your next chief of staff or company peacekeeper?
Neuro (ADHD)
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Klarna’s Q2 losses swell after hit with restructuring charge
Klarna has reported a year-on-year increase in losses in Q2 to record a net loss of $53m after it was hit by a restructuring charge relating to reducing its office footprint. Earlier this year, it was...