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[image]", "author": "James Titcomb", "publisher_name": "@jamestitcomb", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jamestitcomb", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jamestitcomb" }, { "url": "https://x.com/suchenzang/status/2084540043423875510", "title": "kinda crazy how much apple got wrong, including all the interview loops and interview tech talks where Everything Always Gets Leaked! 100% pristine judgement from 100% of all the apple folks if they were all 100% hired without any leaks - that's showing infinitely more integrity than all the other lab trades, that's for sure!", "author": "Susan Zhang", "publisher_name": "@suchenzang", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/suchenzang", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/suchenzang" }, { "url": "https://x.com/deanwball/status/2084644875467891026", "title": "lol [image]", "author": "Dean W. 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They now admit that their outside lawyers emailed the wrong person after confusing two Asian last names—only after we brought this to their attention.” https://openai.com/...", "author": "Kate Rooney", "publisher_name": "@kr00ney", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/kr00ney", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/kr00ney" }, { "url": "https://x.com/alexeheath/status/2084524369515336042", "title": "Here OpenAI says that Apple made stuff up", "author": "Alex Heath", "publisher_name": "@alexeheath", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/alexeheath", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/alexeheath" }, { "url": "https://x.com/theo/status/2084550430701572237", "title": "This is pretty damming on Apple's behalf", "publisher_name": "@theo", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/theo", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/theo" }, { "url": "https://x.com/bengeskin/status/2084563332330135902", "title": "OpenAI says Apple sent its initial legal notice to the wrong email address, then assumed it was being ignored and filed a lawsuit. 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Turns out Apple's counsel sent the notice to the wrong email after mixing up 2 Asian last names🤦🏽‍♂️! Love airing of dirty laundry direct to the public. Doubt Apple will respond the same way.", "author": "Sheel Mohnot", "publisher_name": "@pitdesi", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/pitdesi", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/pitdesi" } ] }, { "name": "Bluesky", "links": [ { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me/post/3msaxciv6e22z", "title": "this seems like a really weird thing for a company to post in their public communications  —  idk, it feels spiteful and vain.  maybe they're 100% right, but why post it there?  —  openai.com/index/apple-...", "author": "Mr. Tim", "publisher_name": "@timkellogg.me", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3msb22qywtk2u", "title": "OPENAI: “.. 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They were offering to acquire Embra at the time. They were honest about their position and seemed tired. Negative dollar retention and slowing, already low growth. “Save the company” vibes. Selling is emotional.", "author": "Zach Tratar", "publisher_name": "@zachtratar", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/zachtratar", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/zachtratar" }, { "url": "https://x.com/alexrkonrad/status/2084685575051718838", "title": "Everyone is a M&A expert today. But if your hot take on Bending Spoons acquiring Airtable doesn't factor in that it spun out the AI unit, Hyperagent, it's missing key pieces of the puzzle. Could be where execs and top engineers go, and changes the math on their exit value👇", "author": "Alex Konrad", "publisher_name": "@alexrkonrad", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/alexrkonrad", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/alexrkonrad" }, { "url": "https://x.com/tanayj/status/2084681637598564426", "title": "Airtable was at $480M in ARR growing 20% y/y implying the Bending Spoons paid 2.7x ARR for it. Interestingly, per SEC filings the HyperAgent business line (Airtable's AI agent product) was transferred to a separate entity prior to the acquisition and is excluded from the transaction. So perhaps a small team will continue to run that business line as an independent company.", "author": "Tanay Jaipuria", "publisher_name": "@tanayj", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/tanayj", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/tanayj" }, { "url": "https://x.com/willchen500/status/2084674147440062755", "title": "Airtable just got sold for 1/10 of its last valuation which was 11+ billion. I use it on one of my sites but even I have no idea why it exists.", "publisher_name": "@willchen500", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/willchen500", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/willchen500" }, { "url": "https://x.com/pkafka/status/2084673533284680037", "title": "Back when Airtable had VC money to spend I'm pretty sure I read at least one podcast ad for them. Thank you for your service, Airtable VCs.", "author": "Peter Kafka", "publisher_name": "@pkafka", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/pkafka", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/pkafka" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jasonlk/status/2084647154061381734", "title": "The early investors in Airtable will make good money, some will see that as a takeaway. But they invested in 2013-2015 But ... what if the seed deal had happened today, at say $50m post after demo day? The returns might be more like 15x (or less?) for seed investors, after dilution etc over 12-13 years Not enough to return a fund", "publisher_name": "@jasonlk", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jasonlk", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jasonlk" }, { "url": "https://x.com/denehyxxl/status/2084594196069953713", "title": "The point most founders should take away from this is that a ~$500M ARR co with a great product and a ton of cash that's only growing 20% is just not worth much.", "author": "Ryan Denehy", "publisher_name": "@denehyxxl", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/denehyxxl", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/denehyxxl" }, { "url": "https://x.com/almostcmb/status/2084636571437867156", "title": "Howie and team built an incredible product and business.  Airtable was an absolute world …", "author": "Chris Brown", "publisher_name": "@almostcmb", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/almostcmb", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/almostcmb" }, { "url": "https://x.com/mikey_starts/status/2084557871824458169", "title": "in 10 years, only hyperscalers & bending spoons will exist https://x.com/...", "publisher_name": "@mikey_starts", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/mikey_starts", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/mikey_starts" }, { "url": "https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/2084570968802939084", "title": "Got to feel for any current and past Airtable employees.  Especially current ones. …", "author": "Gergely Orosz", "publisher_name": "@gergelyorosz", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/gergelyorosz", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/gergelyorosz" }, { "url": "https://x.com/peterj_walker/status/2084635727976112482", "title": "Every time you post about VC metrics, someone will inevitably say “only thing that matters is DPI”. Yes. You're right. But DPI often takes 12, 13, 15 years to show up. So in the intervening years, ppl look at different metrics 🤷", "author": "Peter Walker", "publisher_name": "@peterj_walker", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/peterj_walker", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/peterj_walker" }, { "url": "https://x.com/keshavtrehan/status/2084554531304808834", "title": "The death of a great product. We had a good run, Airtable🥲", "author": "Keshav", "publisher_name": "@keshavtrehan", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/keshavtrehan", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/keshavtrehan" }, { "url": "https://x.com/itfchelp/status/2084621624066920470", "title": "🎟️ Supporters attending tonight's fixture against Le Havre are reminded to download their ticket before reaching the stadium. A video has been produced to assist supporters with this process. [video]", "publisher_name": "@itfchelp", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/itfchelp", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/itfchelp" }, { "url": "https://x.com/the_zack_zhu/status/2084650663393603758", "title": "The Airtable situation is a manifest that tech companies should deserve much lower valuation than traditional industry if given a similar growth and profitability. Tech companies future value can be wipe out at anytime. The moat hasn't been test through time. I had a lot of respect for founders that build a product that people like. But unfortunately, bad things happens to them.", "author": "Zack Zhu", "publisher_name": "@the_zack_zhu", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/the_zack_zhu", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/the_zack_zhu" }, { "url": "https://x.com/matsonj/status/2084614126870167935", "title": "Really interesting to see. Imo AI has taken the air out of the room on the “DIY internal tool” market - which includes stuff like Smartsheet (got taken private), retool, and a few others. OTOH it seems like others using interface are still scaling - Sigma, RowZero, and others", "author": "Jacob Matson", "publisher_name": "@matsonj", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/matsonj", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/matsonj" }, { "url": "https://x.com/chat_sbc/status/2084642425402765494", "title": "this is just a toxic mindset that is reflective of grifting in SV $500mm revenue with good unit economics is excellent and a sustainable business But gets no credit bc 20% growth So founders try to pump up narratives and juice growth 1000% and sell secondary shares before the decel Literally incentives quasi-criminal activity in private markets and why half of VCs are in denial about their marks", "publisher_name": "@chat_sbc", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/chat_sbc", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/chat_sbc" }, { "url": "https://x.com/harrystebbings/status/2084613142059901356", "title": "Epic analysis as always here from Paul. Winners and losers from Airtable Acquisition. 👇", "author": "Harry Stebbings", "publisher_name": "@harrystebbings", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/harrystebbings", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/harrystebbings" }, { "url": "https://x.com/amix3k/status/2084656167255445731", "title": "Creating more than $2 billion in value is framed as a failure, with the company cast as an “unfortunate victim” A great example of playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. I'm so glad Todoist isn't part of this! Play your own infinite game. Set your own rules. It's far more rewarding than running on the VC hamster wheel.", "author": "Amir Salihefendić", "publisher_name": "@amix3k", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/amix3k", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/amix3k" }, { "url": "https://x.com/bryce/status/2084637806777999734", "title": "Venture capital can be a cruel business. One minute your investment is a crowned a decacorn the next minute it's selling for parts. Hope everyone sold some secondary at $11B!", "author": "Bryce Roberts", "publisher_name": "@bryce", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/bryce", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/bryce" }, { "url": "https://x.com/quxiaoyin/status/2084560710429032826", "title": "is this a good outcome?", "author": "Xiaoyin Qu", "publisher_name": "@quxiaoyin", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/quxiaoyin", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/quxiaoyin" }, { "url": "https://x.com/marell_evans/status/2084665371861057833", "title": "I took a quick look at every investor that wrote a meaningful check into Airtable at a $1B+ valuation. The outcome is a reminder that even the best funds can overpay for great companies. You don't build a generational firm without taking a few painful L's.", "author": "Marell Evans", "publisher_name": "@marell_evans", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/marell_evans", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/marell_evans" }, { "url": "https://x.com/michaelmiraflor/status/2084636722298761477", "title": "Founders were at it for 14 years. Along w/ everything else. I'm thinking that they just wanted to get out at this point. Every year working on SaaS and not AI was money on the table for them (esp after their Airtable AI product didn't really stick). They had the cash pile to try other things... but they just wanted out?", "author": "Michael J. Miraflor", "publisher_name": "@michaelmiraflor", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/michaelmiraflor", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/michaelmiraflor" }, { "url": "https://x.com/trace_cohen/status/2084586778242040163", "title": "$1.4B raised $11B valuation $480M rev growing 20% YoY $1.285B enterprise value $2.25B equity value $965M of net cash on its balance sheet. Usually 75%+ layoffs after acq.", "author": "Trace Cohen", "publisher_name": "@trace_cohen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/trace_cohen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/trace_cohen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/bryce/status/2084652510376317233", "title": "The upside for Airtable's VCs- by playing the markup game, they were able to raise 1, maybe 2, funds on the Airtable markups alone...", "author": "Bryce Roberts", "publisher_name": "@bryce", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/bryce", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/bryce" }, { "url": "https://x.com/austen/status/2084566507929936230", "title": "Whoa. Airtable raised $1.4 Billion. Didn't even clear the pref stack?", "author": "Austen Allred", "publisher_name": "@austen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/austen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/austen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/amandaorson/status/2084629371860492715", "title": "Don't think this is a “SaaS bust” story.  Airtable @ ~$480M ARR growing 20%+ YoY is a very good business. …", "author": "Amanda Orson", "publisher_name": "@amandaorson", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/amandaorson", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/amandaorson" }, { "url": "https://x.com/ronaldmannak/status/2084646037319467234", "title": "Yikes. The deal isn't as disastrous as it first seems: Airtable still has nearly $1 billion in cash. But it's hard to imagine the former Silicon Valley darling didn't reject far better acquisition offers over the years. Employees better start looking for new jobs since Bending Spoons usually lets the team go within weeks after the acquisition", "author": "Ronald Mannak", "publisher_name": "@ronaldmannak", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/ronaldmannak", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/ronaldmannak" }, { "url": "https://x.com/asanwal/status/2084622799239307625", "title": "🎯🎯 Airtable sold for $1.285B Less than the amount it raised Called this 3 yrs ago I remember @Jason calling this prediction out on his pod for shoddy analysis. Math don't lie cc @CBinsights", "author": "Anand Sanwal", "publisher_name": "@asanwal", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/asanwal", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/asanwal" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jspujji/status/2084646276361081125", "title": "Raise venture, they said.  Build a unicorn, they advised.  Change the world, they shouted! …", "author": "Jesse Pujji", "publisher_name": "@jspujji", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jspujji", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jspujji" }, { "url": "https://x.com/nrmehta/status/2084598876774813780", "title": "Building an iconic $480M ARR business is incredibly hard and impressive. …", "author": "Nick Mehta", "publisher_name": "@nrmehta", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/nrmehta", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/nrmehta" }, { "url": "https://x.com/sebjohnsonuk/status/2084558070475067845", "title": "List of Bending Spoons acquisitions to date: Evernote Remini Splice Filmic Pro Komoot Vimeo Brightcove StreamYard Meetup WeTransfer Issuu Eventbrite AOL Harvest Tractive Mosaic Group Now airtable. Any that I have missed?", "author": "Seb Johnson", "publisher_name": "@sebjohnsonuk", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/sebjohnsonuk", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/sebjohnsonuk" }, { "url": "https://x.com/deedydas/status/2084556888671478237", "title": "Wow. Airtable, founded in 2012 and once valued at $11.7B, is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, founded 2013, at 2.7x ARR. A once hot startup; now an unfortunate victim of the SaaS bust. It raised $1.4B only to be sold for $1.285B EV ($2.25B equity value), just clearing its preference stack. That implies common and early holders split the remaining ~$850M, a ~10x haircut from peak.", "author": "Deedy", "publisher_name": "@deedydas", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/deedydas", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/deedydas" }, { "url": "https://x.com/fedesimio/status/2084539635829465266", "title": "We've officially agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285B! 😍 [image]", "author": "Federico Simionato", "publisher_name": "@fedesimio", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/fedesimio", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/fedesimio" }, { "url": "https://x.com/gulimoreno/status/2084552846507127095", "title": "They just can't stop. What an epic run.", "author": "Guli Moreno", "publisher_name": "@gulimoreno", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/gulimoreno", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/gulimoreno" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jason/status/2084627351892086893", "title": "Credit to @bendingspoons for having the 🏀 🏀 to pull off these deals when no one else …", "publisher_name": "@jason", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jason", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jason" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jaredsleeper/status/2084633280087789832", "title": "Thoughts on Airtable: 1) $480m ARR growing 20%, unicorn exit, many very satisfied customers (including me for years!). Fantastic run. 2) Never underestimate how much VCs love products that make “everyone a builder.” The wrinkle is that one-player products are high churn. 3)", "author": "Jared Sleeper", "publisher_name": "@jaredsleeper", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jaredsleeper", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jaredsleeper" }, { "url": "https://x.com/mattwensing/status/2084613911978922199", "title": "Better lesson: don't raise $1.4B to do $500M ARR.", "author": "Matt Wensing", "publisher_name": "@mattwensing", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/mattwensing", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/mattwensing" }, { "url": "https://x.com/lylo/status/2084570400646672838", "title": "More wild acquisitions from @bendingspoons who continue to hoover up failed unicorns, gutting most staff, sorting out pricing, to make the business profitable. Time for founders to start running their companies lean like this in the first place.", "author": "Olly", "publisher_name": "@lylo", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/lylo", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/lylo" }, { "url": "https://x.com/restructuring__/status/2084607764421136451", "title": "Holy shit this is really bad (and honestly shocking) Airtable raised at $11.7B in December 2021 …", "publisher_name": "@restructuring__", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/restructuring__", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/restructuring__" }, { "url": "https://x.com/forgebitz/status/2084553622721843388", "title": "still think airtable did a massive fumble in the ai era just look at platforms like clay, the idea of ai + structured data in simple tables [image]", "author": "Klaas", "publisher_name": "@forgebitz", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/forgebitz", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/forgebitz" }, { "url": "https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/2084570417994314186", "title": "Selling to Bending Spoons is an admission of defeat+wanting ANY kind of exit, knowing most staff will be let go after this Airtable raised $1.4B in funding. This exit most certainly means investors get some investment back: founders maybe something. Employees likely wiped out...", "author": "Gergely Orosz", "publisher_name": "@gergelyorosz", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/gergelyorosz", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/gergelyorosz" }, { "url": "https://x.com/matthartman/status/2084614464842707225", "title": "Wow @bendingspoons buying @airtable for $1.28 bn of enterprise value (reportedly $2.25 incl cash …", "author": "Matt Hartman", "publisher_name": "@matthartman", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/matthartman", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/matthartman" }, { "url": "https://x.com/p_bonnet/status/2084609760440012956", "title": "AIRTABLE ACQUISITION: WHO GETS THE 💰 HOME // WHO GETS LEFT BEHIND? …", "author": "Paul", "publisher_name": "@p_bonnet", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/p_bonnet", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/p_bonnet" }, { "url": "https://x.com/austen/status/2084644616024760663", "title": "Honest question: How much of PE exists because it gives a kinder explanation to why a company is laying off 75% of its staff?", "author": "Austen Allred", "publisher_name": "@austen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/austen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/austen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/elie2222/status/2084593403396849842", "title": "This would make it into the “90% of startups that failed” myth.  Don't worry about the founders. …", "author": "Elie Steinbock", "publisher_name": "@elie2222", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/elie2222", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/elie2222" }, { "url": "https://x.com/quinnypig/status/2084604513626059109", "title": "Area database company acquired by Bending Spoons.", "author": "Corey Quinn", "publisher_name": "@quinnypig", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/quinnypig", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/quinnypig" }, { "url": "https://x.com/beffjezos/status/2084616137745342646", "title": "It's over for SaaScels", "publisher_name": "@beffjezos", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/beffjezos", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/beffjezos" }, { "url": "https://x.com/pitdesi/status/2084556331441381586", "title": "Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable for $2.25B Airtable has $965M of cash, so the EV is $1.285B. Airtable had raised $1.35B of VC capital, last round Dec '21 at $11.7B. At ~$480M ARR growing 20%+ YoY, that's 2.7x ARR. Surprised they are selling with so much cash!", "author": "Sheel Mohnot", "publisher_name": "@pitdesi", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/pitdesi", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/pitdesi" }, { "url": "https://x.com/averyalchek/status/2084587632621654252", "title": "Hoping employees took liquidity off top at its peak (great reason for private market sales). Multiple compression hurts much more for privates", "author": "Avery", "publisher_name": "@averyalchek", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/averyalchek", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/averyalchek" }, { "url": "https://x.com/kieranwgoodwin/status/2084600714416869841", "title": "2.7x ARR .. wonder if PC will consider this data point when marking loans", "author": "Kieran Goodwin", "publisher_name": "@kieranwgoodwin", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/kieranwgoodwin", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/kieranwgoodwin" }, { "url": "https://x.com/itsurboyevan/status/2084565206273794083", "title": "WOW. Airtable agreeing to this price has to make legacy SaaS CEOs sick.", "author": "Evan Armstrong", "publisher_name": "@itsurboyevan", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/itsurboyevan", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/itsurboyevan" }, { "url": "https://x.com/toddsaunders/status/2084607414066721021", "title": "Next up on the wishlist: Yelp Docusign Notion Carta", "author": "Todd Saunders", "publisher_name": "@toddsaunders", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/toddsaunders", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/toddsaunders" }, { "url": "https://x.com/arthaud_/status/2084579752241696801", "title": "next up: - snap - grammarly - skyscanner - degiro - bumble anyone found a prediction market for their next acquisition?", "author": "Arthaud", "publisher_name": "@arthaud_", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/arthaud_", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/arthaud_" }, { "url": "https://x.com/_abhixyz/status/2084653498667323520", "title": "Before the purchase agreement was signed, assets and liabilities related to the “Hyperagent” business line were transferred from Airtable to a separate Delaware corporation called Hyperagent Inc Source: Form 6-K filed by Bending Spoons [image]", "author": "Abhi", "publisher_name": "@_abhixyz", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/_abhixyz", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/_abhixyz" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jsyversen/status/2084665033301082499", "title": "Not surprised by this. There are a lot of massively overvalued companies out there. Airtable is a giant fancy spreadsheet/website platform. Not innovating, overpriced, buggy. Calendly is gonna go this same way. (Even more overvalued IMHO.) Many others like them.", "author": "Jason Syversen", "publisher_name": "@jsyversen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jsyversen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jsyversen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/benioff/status/2084669725469196313", "title": "Wow. Incredible entrepreneur @howietl and the entire Airtable team building another cool product used by so many companies. And sobering reality check on 2021 peak VC valuations. Congrats Howie! https://techcrunch.com/...", "author": "Marc Benioff", "publisher_name": "@benioff", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/benioff", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/benioff" } ] }, { "name": "LinkedIn", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fedesimio_weve-officially-agreed-to-acquire-airtable-activity-7490308927230857216-crTk", "title": "We've officially agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285B!  😍", "publisher_name": "Federico Simionato", "publisher_url": "https://it.linkedin.com/in/fedesimio" }, { "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcofilocamo_breaking-news-bending-spoons-has-agreed-share-7490347965077700608-pPNq", "title": "Breaking news: Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion 😮  —  Back in 2022, a Hacker News comment highlighted one of the fundamental limits of the “Excel killer”: …", "publisher_name": "Marco Filocamo", "publisher_url": "https://it.linkedin.com/in/marcofilocamo/en" } ] }, { "name": "Bluesky", "links": [ { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/aftd.dev/post/3msbmuomjhk2g", "title": "This is sad but also, Airtable's “unsubscribe from these marketing messages” functionality doesn't work unless you escalate to their legal team, and somehow this all feels related.  [embedded post]", "author": "Andrew F", "publisher_name": "@aftd.dev", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/aftd.dev" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city/post/3msbbskwf4k2s", "title": "welp there goes my equity lol [embedded post]", "publisher_name": "@cara.city", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/harrymccracken.com/post/3msbcyrntrn2e", "title": "Fingers crossed this isn't bad news for people who use Airtable, such as me.  In particular, I'd like to see the product continue to evolve and improve. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/ bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1- 28b/", "author": "Harry McCracken", "publisher_name": "@harrymccracken.com", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/harrymccracken.com" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3msayfh3jj227", "title": "Terrible news, especially for their workers.  Just a deeply disappointing ending for such a promising company.  I hate this.  [embedded post]", "author": "Anil Dash", "publisher_name": "@anildash.com", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/ed3d.net/post/3msbcvxgipk22", "title": "just yesterday I told somebody about airtable and that it was great for knocking out one-offs. welp  —  @tilmonedwards.com time to update recommendations [embedded post]", "publisher_name": "@ed3d.net", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/ed3d.net" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/daniloc.xyz/post/3msbc5fw6fs2p", "title": "Airtable should have taken over the world. so many of the problems caused by spreadsheets were elegantly solved by Airtable's combination of tight schemas and user-friendliness. but I think deep down, none of them understood what they'd actually built.  —  bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post]", "publisher_name": "@daniloc.xyz", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/daniloc.xyz" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/noahjnelson.com/post/3msbbxjsrcs2q", "title": "RIP AirTable.  —  Which really sucks as AirTable is far better than it has any right to be.  [embedded post]", "publisher_name": "@noahjnelson.com", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/noahjnelson.com" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3msb4frgg3k2m", "title": "Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable in a deal valuing the company at about $2.25B.  A shock given it raised $1.4B and was valued at $11.7B in 2021.  —  They built a good business but at $480M ARR that was insufficient to justify the huge valuation as they never became a ubiquitous enterprise platform.", "author": "Dare Obasanjo", "publisher_name": "@carnage4life", "publisher_url": 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Honestly just feels like someone wanted to see these names +20, doesn't make any sense otherwise.", "author": "Renny", "publisher_name": "@rennyzucker", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/rennyzucker", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/rennyzucker" }, { "url": "https://x.com/loyndsview/status/2084624721845391711", "title": "“The components that would be covered by the ban include optical transceivers, a hot-pluggable hardware module that converts electrical signals into light pulses & back to transmit data, which is essential to data centers running efficiently.” https://www.reuters.com/... #TechWar", "author": "Stephen Loynd", "publisher_name": "@loyndsview", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/loyndsview", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/loyndsview" }, { "url": "https://x.com/benbajarin/status/2084652151893332209", "title": "With this rumored US administration further ban on key components of the supply chain from China, let's hope cooler heads prevail as the supply 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This additional compute is needed as Claude Code demand is going through the roof 🚀 [image]", "publisher_name": "@semianalysis_", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/semianalysis_", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/semianalysis_" }, { "url": "https://x.com/a16z/status/2084700958429507945", "title": "We're thrilled to co-lead Volta's Series A. Compute isn't distributed evenly. Most startups don't have financeable balance sheets: they're funded 18 months at a time. So they have to pay more money for less flexible compute access, and have to wait longer to get it. Volta is [image]", "publisher_name": "@a16z", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/a16z", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/a16z" }, { "url": "https://x.com/michellelazzar/status/2084696235227918814", "title": "big facts from @RaghuRaghuram @shangdaxu. 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"https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/chaindrop-npm-worm", "title": "ChainDrop npm Worm: Bun-loaded CI/CD credential harvester with Ethereum dead-drop C2", "author": "Sai Likhith", "publisher_name": "Step Security Blog", "publisher_url": "https://www.stepsecurity.io/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/stepsecurity.io" }, { "url": "https://socket.dev/blog/popular-npm-packages-in-the-keyv-and-cacheable-namespaces-compromised-in-active-supply-chain", "title": "Timeline  —  All times UTC on August 4, 2026, based on npm registry publish timestamps.", "publisher_name": "Socket", "publisher_url": "https://socket.dev/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/socket.dev" }, { "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/keyv-linked-npm-worm-poisons-hundreds.html", "title": "Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks", "publisher_name": "The Hacker News", "publisher_url": "https://thehackernews.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/thehackernews.com" }, { "url": "http://nulltx.com/how-a-stolen-github-account-turned-valid-security-provenance-into-a-weapon-spreading-npm-malware", "title": "How a Stolen GitHub Account turned Valid Security Provenance Into a Weapon Spreading npm Malware", "author": "Will Izuchukwu", "publisher_name": "NullTX", "publisher_url": "http://nulltx.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/nulltx.com" }, { "url": "https://www.wiz.io/blog/keyv-and-cacheable-npm-supply-chain-attack", "title": "keyv and cacheable npm Package Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack", "author": "Merav Bar", "publisher_name": "wiz.io", "publisher_url": "https://www.wiz.io/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/wiz.io" }, { "url": "https://www.ox.security/blog/a-new-infostealer-worm-hits-npm-affecting-keyv-and-cacheable", "title": "A Massive Shai-Hulud Campaign Hits npm: +440 Packages Compromised, Over 2B Monthly Downloads", "author": "Moshe Siman Tov Bustan", "publisher_name": "OX Security", "publisher_url": "https://www.ox.security/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/ox.security" }, { "url": "https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/github-account-breach-fuels-shai-hulud-npm-supply-chain-attack/", "title": "GitHub Account Breach Fuels Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack", "author": "Ken Underhill", "publisher_name": "eSecurity Planet", "publisher_url": "https://www.esecurityplanet.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/esecurityplanet.com" }, { "url": "https://devops.com/fast-moving-shai-hulud-attack-infects-npm-packages-with-2-billion-monthly-downloads/", "title": "Fast-Moving Shai-Hulud Attack Infects npm Packages with 2 Billion Monthly Downloads", "author": "Jeff Burt", "publisher_name": "DevOps.com", "publisher_url": "https://devops.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/devops.com" }, { "url": "https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/npm-worm-compromises-popular-npm-packages/", "title": "Worm compromises hundreds of popular npm 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entering a post-package era. 95%+ of packages can very easily be rebuilt at this point. and when you care more about bad actors than the risk of a bug, it makes sense.", "author": "Ben Hylak", "publisher_name": "@benhylak", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/benhylak", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/benhylak" }, { "url": "https://x.com/msftsecintel/status/2084642457048752134", "title": "Microsoft Threat Intelligence is tracking active Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attacks …", "publisher_name": "@msftsecintel", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/msftsecintel", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/msftsecintel" }, { "url": "https://x.com/feross/status/2084648858605465801", "title": "🚨 Active supply chain attack on npm: keyv and cacheable are compromised right now, and the payload is a worm. …", "publisher_name": "@feross", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/feross", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/feross" }, { "url": "https://x.com/aikidosecurity/status/2084584370556530882", "title": "‼️ The popular npm package keyv is being actively compromised (127 million weekly downloads). The attacker is still pushing malware across packages right now. Developing story. [image]", "publisher_name": "@aikidosecurity", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/aikidosecurity", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/aikidosecurity" }, { "url": "https://x.com/datadoghq/status/2084649719544815673", "title": "This morning, several high-profile npm packages — including keyv, file-entry-cache, and flat-cache — were compromised. The malicious payload appears to have the ability to spread to adjacent npm packages. Datadog Security Labs has identified the worm and is analyzing the situation here: https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/ ...", "publisher_name": "@datadoghq", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/datadoghq", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/datadoghq" }, { "url": "https://x.com/socketsecurity/status/2084643761900970391", "title": "🚨 Update: Watching this npm worm propagate in real time, we're now tracking 2,234 affected package artifacts across 444 unique packages, and it's still spreading. Average detection time: 5 min and 18 seconds after publication. Our campaign page includes all packages/versions.", "publisher_name": "@socketsecurity", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/socketsecurity", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/socketsecurity" }, { "url": "https://x.com/charlieeriksen/status/2084591851672056101", "title": "The attacker has started deleting GitHub issues that are alerting people to the attack. [image]", "author": "Charlie Eriksen", "publisher_name": "@charlieeriksen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/charlieeriksen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/charlieeriksen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/charlieeriksen/status/2084587565005348864", "title": "Between cacheable and keyv, we're now seeing active community spread. At least two developers with live tokens have been hit and have published a dozen compromised packages.", "author": "Charlie Eriksen", "publisher_name": "@charlieeriksen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/charlieeriksen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/charlieeriksen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jfrogsecurity/status/2084658999614431585", "title": "The wave is ongoing, current stats: 456 packages, 2244 versions.", "publisher_name": "@jfrogsecurity", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jfrogsecurity", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jfrogsecurity" }, { "url": "https://x.com/mehulmpt/status/2084659026470871356", "title": "> use pnpm > use minimumReleaseAge at this point, this should be hardcoded into LLM weights", "author": "Mehul Mohan", "publisher_name": "@mehulmpt", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/mehulmpt", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/mehulmpt" }, { "url": "https://x.com/socketsecurity/status/2084614244188774621", "title": "🚨 Active npm supply chain attack: keyv @ 6.0.0 and 13 other packages have been compromised. keyv alone gets 154M weekly downloads. 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[image]", "publisher_name": "@socketsecurity", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/socketsecurity", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/socketsecurity" } ] } ], "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/bleepingcomputer.com" }, { "id": "260803p39", "title": "Apple says it “briefly removed Telegram from the App Store” over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram “promptly removed the content and banned the user”", "importance": 2, "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/03/telegram-appears-to-have-been-pulled-from-the-app-store-worldwide/", "author": "Marcus Mendes", "publisher_name": "9to5Mac", "publisher_url": "https://9to5mac.com/", "thumbnail": "https://images.kollab.ai/cdn-cgi/image/fit=cover,gravity=center,height=140,width=140,quality=100/https://techmeme.com/260803/i39.jpg", "description": "Update: 11:00 p.m. ET: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said:  —  “We briefly removed Telegram …", "secondary_sections": [ { "name": "More", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/telegram-says-app-restored-apples-app-store-2026-08-04/", "title": "Telegram says Apple suspension followed content norms violation by one user", "author": "Rishabh Jaiswal", "publisher_name": "Reuters", "publisher_url": "http://www.reuters.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/reuters.com" }, { "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/news/telegram-extortionist-duped-apple-into-delisting-our-app", "title": "Telegram: Extortionist Duped Apple Into Delisting Our App", "author": "Michael Kan", "publisher_name": "PCMag", "publisher_url": "http://www.pcmag.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/pcmag.com" }, { "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/08/04/telegram-pavel-durov-apple-app-store/", "title": "Telegram's Durov says ‘extortionists’ pushed Apple to remove messaging platform from App Store", "author": "Cody Combs", "publisher_name": "The National", "publisher_url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/thenationalnews.com" }, { "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/04/telegram-briefly-removed-from-apples-app-store-over-alleged-child-sexual-abuse-content/", "title": "Telegram Briefly Removed From Apple's App Store Over Alleged Child Sexual Abuse Content", "author": "Siladitya Ray", "publisher_name": "Forbes", "publisher_url": "http://www.forbes.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/forbes.com" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/apple-briefly-takes-telegram-off-app-store-over-abusive-content", "title": "Apple Briefly Removes Telegram App for Child Abuse Content", "publisher_name": "Bloomberg", "publisher_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/bloomberg.com" }, { "url": "https://therecord.media/russian-businesses-erase-durov-linked-products-terrorist-designation", "title": "Russian businesses erase Durov-linked products after ‘terrorist’ designation", "author": "Daryna Antoniuk", "publisher_name": "The Record", "publisher_url": "https://therecord.media/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/therecord.media" }, { "url": "https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-pulled-telegram-from-the-app-store-worldwide-over-a-single-user-post", "title": "Apple Pulled Telegram From the App Store Worldwide Over a Single User Post", "author": "Cindy Harper", "publisher_name": "Reclaim The Net", "publisher_url": "https://reclaimthenet.org/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/reclaimthenet.org" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/tech/apple-pulls-telegram-app-store", "title": "Apple pulls Telegram from app store, gets a snarky response", "author": "Sam Haysom", "publisher_name": "Mashable", "publisher_url": "https://mashable.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/mashable.com" }, { "url": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/04/telegram-briefly-removed-from-app-store/", "title": "Telegram Briefly Removed From App Store", "author": "Hartley 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"https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/telegram-restored-to-app-store-after-apple-flags-child-sexual-abuse-material-3225376", "title": "Telegram restored to App Store after Apple flags child sexual abuse material", "publisher_name": "Türkiye Today", "publisher_url": "https://www.turkiyetoday.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/turkiyetoday.com" }, { "url": "https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2026/08/04/telegram-pulled-from-apple-app-store-with-no-official-explanation/", "title": "Telegram Pulled from Apple App Store with No Official Explanation", "author": "Rupam Roy", "publisher_name": "The Coin Republic", "publisher_url": "https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/thecoinrepublic.com" }, { "url": "https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-briefly-removes-telegram-from-app-store-over-csam-content/", "title": "Apple briefly removes Telegram from App Store over CSAM content", "author": "Rajat Saini", "publisher_name": "The Mac Observer", "publisher_url": "https://www.macobserver.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/macobserver.com" }, { "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/telegram-returns-to-apple-app-store-after-brief-child-sexual-abuse-material-ban-101785843072478.html", "title": "Telegram returns to Apple App Store after brief child sexual abuse material ban", "publisher_name": "Hindustan Times", "publisher_url": "http://www.hindustantimes.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/hindustantimes.com" }, { "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/apple-restores-telegram-on-app-store-after-brief-csam-related-takedown/", "title": "Apple Restores Telegram On App Store After Brief CSAM-Related Takedown", "author": "Shrishti Bisht", "publisher_name": "Inc42", "publisher_url": "https://inc42.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/inc42.com" }, { "url": "https://www.trtworld.com/article/2a340bd19961", "title": "Telegram restored to Apple App Store after brief global removal over prohibited content", "publisher_name": "TRT World", "publisher_url": "https://www.trtworld.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/trtworld.com" }, { "url": "https://macdailynews.com/2026/08/04/telegram-briefly-pulled-from-apples-app-store-over-single-users-prohibited-content-then-quickly-restored/", "title": "Telegram briefly pulled from Apple's App Store over single user's prohibited content, then quickly restored", "publisher_name": "MacDailyNews", "publisher_url": "https://macdailynews.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/macdailynews.com" }, { "url": "https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/04/telegram-briefly-disappeared-from-the-apple-app-store-with-no-explanation", "title": "Telegram briefly disappeared from the Apple App Store due to CSAM", "author": "Wesley Hilliard", "publisher_name": "AppleInsider", "publisher_url": "https://appleinsider.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/appleinsider.com" } ] }, { "name": "X", "links": [ { "url": "https://x.com/markgurman/status/2084474578668245098", "title": "Apple: We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material. 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Apple capriciously removes a vital communication and privacy tool from availability to a billion users, and sadly this is business as usual.", "author": "Tim Sweeney", "publisher_name": "@timsweeneyepic", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/timsweeneyepic", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/timsweeneyepic" }, { "url": "https://x.com/telegram/status/2084467357569970681", "title": "reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated 🍎", "publisher_name": "@telegram", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/telegram", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/telegram" }, { "url": "https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2084488165063074287", "title": "Apple has stated they removed the app from availability to a billion users because a Telegram user posted something horrible and illegal. They did not elaborate on how, if that is the standard for app removal, any communications app could operate at scale, including iMessage.", "author": "Tim Sweeney", "publisher_name": "@timsweeneyepic", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/timsweeneyepic", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/timsweeneyepic" }, { "url": "https://x.com/theo/status/2084462333796213229", "title": "This seems not good", "publisher_name": "@theo", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/theo", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/theo" }, { "url": "https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2084489024857624598", "title": "Such arbitrary policy enforcement, by a monopoly gatekeeper, creates a perfect storm of fear and acquiescence by developers who are victims of Apple's monopoly. Speak up and criticize their gatekeeping and maybe they'll enforce the rules one way rather than the other way.", "author": "Tim Sweeney", "publisher_name": "@timsweeneyepic", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/timsweeneyepic", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/timsweeneyepic" }, { "url": "https://x.com/taylorlorenz/status/2084481412418404727", "title": "Posting through it I see [image]", "author": "Taylor Lorenz", "publisher_name": "@taylorlorenz", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/taylorlorenz", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/taylorlorenz" }, { "url": "https://x.com/autismcapital/status/2084485623709135140", "title": "Apple gave a reason for the removal of the Telegram app.  To be honest, this reads …", "publisher_name": "@autismcapital", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/autismcapital", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/autismcapital" }, { "url": "https://x.com/oliviasolon/status/2084579047711912256", "title": "Apple removed Telegram briefly from App Store because of a single use sharing CSAM. But Telegram is FILLED with CSAM. 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"publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/bubbleboi" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jukan05/status/2084430819242946683", "title": "Google has joined the HBF consortium led by SK hynix and Sandisk. 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"https://unavatar.io/washingtonexaminer.com" }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/texas-governor-directs-puct-ercot-to-audit-all-data-centers-seeking-grid-connection/", "title": "Texas governor directs PUCT, ERCOT to audit all data centers seeking grid connection", "author": "Zachary Skidmore", "publisher_name": "DatacenterDynamics", "publisher_url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/datacenterdynamics.com" }, { "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/texas-electric-grid-moratorim-btc-miners-bernstein", "title": "Texas electric grid moratorium won't have big impact on BTC miners: Bernstein", "author": "Robert Lakin", "publisher_name": "Cointelegraph", "publisher_url": "http://cointelegraph.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/cointelegraph.com" }, { "url": "https://www.theblock.co/post/410545/bernstein-texas-data-center-audit", "title": "Bernstein says Texas data center audit could boost value of existing 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Central planning doesn't belong in Texas. Consideration of different rules of the game for everyone is important but a pause on data center construction until these audits are completed will likely stop deals and act like a moratorium by New York. Don't make Texas like New York!", "author": "Vance Ginn", "publisher_name": "@vanceginn", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/vanceginn", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/vanceginn" }, { "url": "https://x.com/govabbottpress/status/2084325349375000748", "title": "Governor Abbott directed the PUCT and ERCOT to conduct a comprehensive verification and audit of all data centers before any project moves forward. Any project that fails to comply with state requirements will be denied connection to the Texas grid. [image]", "publisher_name": "@govabbottpress", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/govabbottpress", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/govabbottpress" } ] }, { "name": "Bluesky", "links": [ { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/emilprotalinski.bsky.social/post/3msb7vncf422r", "title": "Just wait until the All In guys learn they live in Texas.  [embedded post]", "author": "Emil Protalinski", "publisher_name": "@emilprotalinski", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/emilprotalinski.bsky.social" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/volts.wtf/post/3ms7toldxdc2q", "title": "This is basically what I predicted.  Governors are going to “pause” data centers just to take the edge off the political backlash & create some space.  After their elections they'll do some real policy.", "author": "David Roberts", "publisher_name": "@volts.wtf", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/volts.wtf" }, { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social/post/3ms7de6vuks2d", "title": "Do you have any idea how unpopular your industry has to be to get the governor of Texas to pause approvals of your newest facilities?  —  Abbott just halted all data center approvals in his state until they're properly vetted:  —  www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/ t...", "author": "Christopher Mims", "publisher_name": "@mims", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social" } ] }, { "name": "Forums", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/IonicDigitalStock/comments/1vfb8yy/new_texas_data_center_projects_frozen_until_state/", "title": "New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them", "publisher_name": "r/IonicDigitalStock", "publisher_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/IonicDigitalStock/" }, { "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wisconsin/comments/1vewtpr/gov_greg_abbott_orders_data_center_moratorium_in/", "title": "Gov. Greg Abbott orders data center moratorium in Texas.  WI can do the same.", "publisher_name": "r/wisconsin", "publisher_url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/wisconsin/" } ] } ], "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/texastribune.org" }, { "id": "260804p19", "title": "Sources: Polymarket is in early talks with prospective investors to raise ~$1B at a $20B+ valuation, up from $15B in April 2026 and $9B in October 2025", "importance": 1, "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/polymarket-seeks-more-than-20-billion-valuation-in-funding-round", "author": "Todd Gillespie", "publisher_name": "Bloomberg", "publisher_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/", "thumbnail": "https://images.kollab.ai/cdn-cgi/image/fit=cover,gravity=center,height=140,width=140,quality=100/https://techmeme.com/260804/i19.jpg", "description": "Polymarket is seeking to raise capital at a valuation of more than $20 billion, months after it closed an earlier round with new investment from hedge fund D.E. 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"publisher_url": "https://tech.eu/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/tech.eu" }, { "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/happyrobot-raises-150m-1-2b-valuation-bring-ai-agents-critical-enterprise-work/", "title": "HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work", "author": "Kyt Dotson", "publisher_name": "SiliconANGLE", "publisher_url": "http://siliconangle.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/siliconangle.com" }, { "url": "https://pulse2.com/happyrobot-raises-150-million-series-c-at-1-2-billion-valuation/", "title": "HappyRobot Raises $150 Million Series C At $1.2 Billion Valuation", "author": "Amit Chowdhry", "publisher_name": "Pulse 2.0", "publisher_url": "https://pulse2.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/pulse2.com" }, { "url": "https://www.happyrobot.ai/blog/happyrobot-seriesc-fundraising-announcement", "title": "We've Raised $150 Million in Series C Funding to Build Enterprise Superintelligence", "author": "Kathryn Dean", "publisher_name": "HappyRobot", "publisher_url": "https://www.happyrobot.ai/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/happyrobot.ai" }, { "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/happyrobot-series-c-mints-freighttech-165732635.html", "title": "HappyRobot Series C mints FreightTech's newest unicorn", "author": "Thomas Wasson", "publisher_name": "FreightWaves", "publisher_url": "https://www.freightwaves.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/freightwaves.com" }, { "url": "https://www.finsmes.com/2026/08/happyrobot-raises-150m-in-series-c-funding.html", "title": "HappyRobot Raises $150M in Series C Funding", "publisher_name": "FinSMEs", "publisher_url": "http://www.finsmes.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/finsmes.com" }, { "url": "https://techfundingnews.com/happyrobot-150m-series-c-ai-agents/", "title": "a16z-backed HappyRobot joins unicorn club after $150M funding round", "author": "Sofia Chesnokova", "publisher_name": "Tech Funding News", "publisher_url": "https://techfundingnews.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/techfundingnews.com" }, { "url": "https://sifted.eu/articles/a16z-happyrobot-1-2bn/", "title": "A16z backs HappyRobot at $1.2bn valuation", "author": "Maya Dharampal-Hornby", "publisher_name": "Sifted", "publisher_url": "https://sifted.eu/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/sifted.eu" } ] }, { "name": "X", "links": [ { "url": "https://x.com/franlynchh/status/2084630799308239156", "title": "@HappyRobot just raised $150M in Series C funding at a $1.2B valuation, @a16z , @Base10Partners , and @ycombinator doubling down. Two years ago, a small team solved one company's late-delivery problem. Today: 8 offices, 3 continents, 150+ enterprises running real operations. [image]", "author": "Francisco Lynch", "publisher_name": "@franlynchh", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/franlynchh", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/franlynchh" }, { "url": "https://x.com/alexrkonrad/status/2084635580491616553", "title": "HappyRobot just announced a new raise at a $1.2B valuation 👀 When I wrote about HappyRobot in @UpstartsMediaCo last fall, I was impressed with what @pablorpalafox and his brother were building for logistics. Now they're going wider. Our original story: https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ ... [image]", "author": "Alex Konrad", "publisher_name": "@alexrkonrad", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/alexrkonrad", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/alexrkonrad" }, { "url": "https://x.com/p_mats_/status/2084636070323356045", "title": "let's goooo $150m series C 🦄🦄 It's not about getting an agent to do a task but deploying them in the critical work of 150+ enterprises HappyRobot ftw 🚀 [video]", "author": "Pau Matas Albiol", "publisher_name": "@p_mats_", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/p_mats_", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/p_mats_" }, { "url": "https://x.com/happyrobot/status/2084620670219268440", "title": "We've raised $150M in Series C funding at a $1.2B valuation, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by @eurazeo. We're expanding across supply chain, insurance, energy, telecom, and airlines - building toward Enterprise Superintelligence. Thank you to our team, customers, and investors. We're just getting started. Full story in the thread below 👇", "publisher_name": "@happyrobot", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/happyrobot", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/happyrobot" }, { "url": "https://x.com/pablorpalafox/status/2084618301016084536", "title": "We just raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation led by Prysm Capital and co-led by @eurazeo. 🦄 Two years ago we deployed one voice agent in a US freight broker. Today, we've deployed a full platform in over 150 enterprises globally across supply chain, energy and [video]", "author": "Pablo Palafox", "publisher_name": "@pablorpalafox", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/pablorpalafox", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/pablorpalafox" } ] } ], "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/fortune.com" } ] }, { "name": "More News", "stories": [ { "id": "260804p28", "title": "Oligo, which offers runtime security tools, raised $60M from Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, and others, bringing its total funding to $140M", "importance": 0, "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/oligo-security-raises-60m-ai-speeds-exploit-development/", "author": "Duncan Riley", "publisher_name": "SiliconANGLE", "publisher_url": "http://siliconangle.com/", "secondary_sections": [ { "name": "More", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryr00n81umg", "title": "Oligo Security raises $60 million as AI-driven attacks accelerate shift toward runtime security", "author": "Meir Orbach", "publisher_name": "CTech", "publisher_url": "https://www.calcalistech.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/calcalistech.com" }, { "url": "https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-runtime-security-co-oligo-raises-60m-1001551339", "title": "Israeli runtime security co Oligo raises $60m", "publisher_name": "Globes", "publisher_url": "https://en.globes.co.il/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/en.globes.co.il" }, { "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260804840699/en/", "title": "OLIGO Security Crosses $140M in Total Funding with $60M Round to Stop AI-Driven Attacks", "publisher_name": "Business Wire", "publisher_url": "https://www.businesswire.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/businesswire.com" }, { "url": "https://www.securityweek.com/oligo-raises-60-million-for-runtime-security/", "title": "Oligo Raises $60 Million For Runtime Security", "author": "Ionut Arghire", "publisher_name": "SecurityWeek", "publisher_url": "https://www.securityweek.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/securityweek.com" } ] } ] }, { "id": "260804p27", "title": "Nvidia makes Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license", "importance": 0, "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/alpamayo-2-super-open-model-now-available/", "author": "Jessica Soares", "publisher_name": "NVIDIA", "publisher_url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/", "secondary_sections": [ { "name": "More", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2026/08/04/nvidia-alpamayo-2-super.html?page=all", "title": "Nvidia unveils AI model for autonomous vehicles", "author": "Gary J. Boulanger", "publisher_name": "Silicon Valley Business Journal", "publisher_url": "http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/" }, { "url": "https://runtimewire.com/article/nvidia-releases-alpamayo-2-super-autonomous-driving-model", "title": "NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super weights for autonomous-driving developers", "author": "Ryan Merket", "publisher_name": "RuntimeWire", "publisher_url": "https://runtimewire.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/runtimewire.com" } ] }, { "name": "X", "links": [ { "url": "https://x.com/jensenhuang/status/2084656303046332747", "title": "Today, we're launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles. …", "author": "Jensen Huang", "publisher_name": "@jensenhuang", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jensenhuang", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jensenhuang" }, { "url": "https://x.com/dkhos/status/2084672942735040998", "title": "Great progress - v excited to be partnering with @nvidia here.", "author": "Dara Khosrowshahi", "publisher_name": "@dkhos", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/dkhos", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/dkhos" }, { "url": "https://x.com/pytorch/status/2084662190351540299", "title": "Alpamayo 2 Super is available on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1, the @linuxfoundation's permissive license for open AI model distributions. The license covers fine-tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution, allowing AV developers, automakers, truckmakers and suppliers to adapt Alpamayo to their own data, driving policies and deployment strategies.", "publisher_name": "@pytorch", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/pytorch", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/pytorch" }, { "url": "https://x.com/futurenvesting/status/2084659325843235039", "title": "Honest question for the $TSLA bulls.  It seems obvious to most investors that self-driving will become a solved problem. …", "author": "Tannor Manson", "publisher_name": "@futurenvesting", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/futurenvesting", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/futurenvesting" }, { "url": "https://x.com/nvidia/status/2084663782018543841", "title": "Meet Alpamayo 2 Super, now commercially available for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles. Built for complex real-world driving, this open reasoning model adds 360° awareness, high-level driving decisions and automated reasoning labels. We built it, so you can build on it. 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The announcement site is simple, focuses on the customers Ambrook has bet on, and intentionally slows down by putting the rest of the announcement in a physical letter. Earned Differentiation. [image]", "author": "Packy McCormick", "publisher_name": "@packym", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/packym", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/packym" }, { "url": "https://x.com/ciaomack/status/2084658132190409081", "title": "announcing @AmbrookAg's $30M series B, led by lachy groom. instead of a fundraising video, we typed up a letter - if you're curious, give us your address (link in thread) and we'll send you some snail mail. like our customers already know, some good things take time. [image]", "author": "Mackenzie Burnett", "publisher_name": "@ciaomack", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/ciaomack", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/ciaomack" } ] }, { "name": "Bluesky", "links": [ { "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/hunterwalk.com/post/3msbdr6eaqk2s", "title": "Some startups talk about ‘touching grass’ as a metaphor.  Ambrook does it for real :) [embedded post]", "publisher_name": "@hunterwalk.com", "publisher_url": "https://bsky.app/profile/hunterwalk.com" } ] } ] }, { "id": "260804p24", "title": "A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI", "importance": 0, "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/33c20c4e-6a25-42da-9f1e-6664c8388957?accessToken=zwAAAZ_NV5S2kc8zwgxOaiVC2tOfHmZkyDiJVw.MEUCIQCteSF6phjOxCWPA8pLq_dB03iWyeovBJprL5Z_XiFflgIgB8Ou-MxGsXIQVwyRQL06YHVLj38ccmQBtOZWUt8fmq0&sharetype=gift&token=40ae027d-65ea-4e4e-a986-09e370687654&syn-25a6b1a6=1", "author": "Joseph Cotterill", "publisher_name": "Financial Times", "publisher_url": "https://www.ft.com/", "secondary_sections": [ { "name": "More", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/world-bank-urges-emerging-nations-to-embrace-ai-amid-weak-growth", "title": "World Bank Urges Emerging Nations to Embrace AI Amid Weak Growth", "author": "Jorgelina Do Rosario", "publisher_name": "Bloomberg", "publisher_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/bloomberg.com" }, { "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/developing-economies-have-more-to-gain-and-less-to-lose-from-ai-says-world-bank-ec81c602", "title": "Developing Economies Have More to Gain and Less to Lose From AI, Says World Bank", "author": "Paul Hannon", "publisher_name": "Wall Street Journal", "publisher_url": "https://www.wsj.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/wsj.com" }, { "url": "https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/innovation/technology/only-45-of-jobs-face-ai-automation-risks-in-developing-economies-could-even-boost-productivity-world-bank", "title": "Only 4.5% Of Jobs Face AI Automation Risks In Developing Economies Amid Productivity Gains: World Bank", "author": "Joyce Abaño", "publisher_name": "Forbes Middle East", "publisher_url": "https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/forbesmiddleeast.com" }, { "url": "https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/04/WS6a71eedfa310986e2b468f6b.html", "title": "AI impacts on developing nations gauged", "author": "Lia Zhu", "publisher_name": "CHINAdaily", "publisher_url": "http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/chinadaily.com.cn" }, { "url": "https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/08/04/ai-offers-lifeline-to-developing-economies-in-an-era-of-weak-growth", "title": "AI Offers Lifeline to Developing Economies in an Era of Weak Growth", "publisher_name": "World Bank Group", "publisher_url": "https://www.worldbank.org/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/worldbank.org" }, { "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260804-world-bank-warns-developing-countries-to-embrace-ai-or-be-left-behind", "title": "World Bank warns developing countries to embrace AI or be left behind", "publisher_name": "Agence France-Presse", "publisher_url": "http://www.afp.com/en/" }, { "url": "https://nairametrics.com/2026/08/04/world-bank-ai-adoption-among-nigerian-firms-jumps-to-40-matching-us-levels/", "title": "World Bank: AI adoption among Nigerian firms jumps to 40%, matching US levels", "author": "Samuel Daniel", "publisher_name": "Nairametrics", "publisher_url": "https://nairametrics.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/nairametrics.com" }, { "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-offers-lifeline-for-emerging-economies-world-bank-says/articleshow/132861979.cms", "title": "AI 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"https://www.insightpartners.com/ideas/behind-the-investment-convex/", "title": "Behind the investment: Convex", "author": "Cecilia Beard", "publisher_name": "Insight Partners", "publisher_url": "https://www.insightpartners.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/insightpartners.com" } ] }, { "name": "X", "links": [ { "url": "https://x.com/convex/status/2084640631167557840", "title": "Big day for Convex! First, we raised $57M led by @insightpartners, with participation from @a16z, @sparkcapital, @TheEtnaLabs, and @justinkan. Read more on our blog: https://news.convex.dev/... 🧵", "publisher_name": "@convex", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/convex", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/convex" } ] } ] }, { "id": "260804p22", "title": "Analysis: in 2026 so far, US police arrested at least 37 people in connection to data center protests and intervened to prevent confrontations in 12 more cases", "importance": 0, "url": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/regular-people-data-center-arrest-protest", "author": "Joe Wilkins", "publisher_name": "Futurism", "publisher_url": "https://futurism.com/", "secondary_sections": [ { "name": "More", "links": [ { "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975077/at-least-37-people-have-reportedly-been-arrested-for-protesting-data-centers", "title": "At least 37 people have reportedly been arrested for protesting data centers.", "author": "Jay Peters", "publisher_name": "The Verge", "publisher_url": "https://www.theverge.com/", 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"https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/obsidian-security-raises-85m-ai-agents-create-cybersecuritys-next-major-attack-surface/", "title": "Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity's next major attack surface", "author": "John Furrier", "publisher_name": "SiliconANGLE", "publisher_url": "http://siliconangle.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/siliconangle.com" }, { "url": "https://pulse2.com/obsidian-security-raises-85-million-series-d-at-1-1-billion-valuation/", "title": "Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million Series D At $1.1 Billion Valuation", "author": "Amit Chowdhry", "publisher_name": "Pulse 2.0", "publisher_url": "https://pulse2.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/pulse2.com" }, { "url": "https://www.finsmes.com/2026/08/obsidian-raises-85m-in-series-d-funding.html", "title": "Obsidian Raises $85M in Series D Funding", "publisher_name": "FinSMEs", "publisher_url": "http://www.finsmes.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/finsmes.com" }, { "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/08/04/obsidian-security-agents-crescent-cove", "title": "Obsidian Security raises at $1.1B valuation", "author": "Chris Metinko", "publisher_name": "Axios", "publisher_url": "https://www.axios.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/axios.com" }, { "url": "https://www.securityweek.com/obsidian-security-raises-85-million-at-1-1-billion-valuation/", "title": "Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million At $1.1 Billion Valuation", "publisher_name": "SecurityWeek", "publisher_url": "https://www.securityweek.com/", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/securityweek.com" }, { "url": "https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/obsidian-raises-85-million-series-d-to-scale-ai-agent-security-growth", "title": "Obsidian Raises $85 Million Series D to Scale AI Agent Security Growth", "publisher_name": "Financial Post", "publisher_url": "https://financialpost.com/", 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No AI gonna wipe out everyone's job. No AI escaping fear marketing. Just better life to enjoy and chill because of AI. I can live with these messages.", "author": "Jen Zhu", "publisher_name": "@jenzhuscott", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jenzhuscott", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jenzhuscott" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jaminball/status/2084264107633729614", "title": "New open weight model is out - Qwen 3.8 Max.  Here's how the “vanilla” pricing compares between …", "author": "Jamin Ball", "publisher_name": "@jaminball", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jaminball", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jaminball" }, { "url": "https://x.com/dan_jeffries1/status/2084173817471991909", "title": "All Chinese AI company media: AI will be a wondrous and wonderful and give you back precious time in your life to do things you love. All US AI company media: AI will take all your jobs, eat your children and it's already going rogue and taking over, muhahahahahahahahaha!", "author": "Daniel Jeffries", "publisher_name": "@dan_jeffries1", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/dan_jeffries1", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/dan_jeffries1" }, { "url": "https://x.com/simonw/status/2084122690189918549", "title": "Qwen 3.8 Max and MiniMax-H3 within hours of each other", "author": "Simon Willison", "publisher_name": "@simonw", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/simonw", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/simonw" }, { "url": "https://x.com/emollick/status/2084124237053219289", "title": "Qwen 3.8 Max on my shader test. Basic impression after a bunch of experiments is that it is a solid model, but not Kimi K3 level in my experience so far. [video]", "author": "Ethan Mollick", "publisher_name": "@emollick", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/emollick", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/emollick" }, { "url": "https://x.com/unslothai/status/2084110664789024769", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B is coming! 🔥 Will run locally on 17GB RAM/VRAM setups.", "publisher_name": "@unslothai", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/unslothai", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/unslothai" }, { "url": "https://x.com/bookwormengr/status/2084238286193938921", "title": "Where is Alibaba running Qwen-3.8-Max?  — What is noteworthy with this release …", "publisher_name": "@bookwormengr", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/bookwormengr", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/bookwormengr" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jason/status/2084113843731505207", "title": "Not only is China making increasingly competitive models, they're also making world-positive AI marketing! 😂😂😂 THE COMPUTERS ARE GOING TO DO OUR JOBS FOR US AND WERE ALL GOING TO THE BEACH! 🏖️", "publisher_name": "@jason", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jason", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jason" }, { "url": "https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2084187108520972471", "title": "Holy, China strikes again: Qwen3.8-Max reportedly worked autonomously for 16 days …", "publisher_name": "@kimmonismus", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/kimmonismus", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/kimmonismus" }, { "url": "https://x.com/chamath/status/2084157768278175875", "title": "Very impressive.", "author": "Chamath Palihapitiya", "publisher_name": "@chamath", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/chamath", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/chamath" }, { "url": "https://x.com/theahmadosman/status/2084142211315195940", "title": "Looks like we will be getting the weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week We are eating GOOOOD boys", "author": "Ahmad", "publisher_name": "@theahmadosman", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/theahmadosman", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/theahmadosman" }, { "url": "https://x.com/genai_is_real/status/2084139918360744328", "title": "Congrats to the Qwen team!  The recent wave of model releases across the ecosystem …", "author": "Chayenne Zhao", "publisher_name": "@genai_is_real", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/genai_is_real", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/genai_is_real" }, { "url": "https://x.com/igornefedovi/status/2084132965366354015", "title": "Can't wait to run Qwen3.8-27B locally. Current setup: dual RTX 3090s, Threadripper PRO 9955WX, WRX90E, and 64GB RAM. A Mac mini runs the agent that controls the workstation. Benchmarks soon [image]", "author": "Igor Nefedov", "publisher_name": "@igornefedovi", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/igornefedovi", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/igornefedovi" }, { "url": "https://x.com/0xsero/status/2084129184238981287", "title": "Rejoice! Qwen3.8-27B is coming out next week and it'll be open weights!", "publisher_name": "@0xsero", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/0xsero", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/0xsero" }, { "url": "https://x.com/healthranger/status/2084128127563735081", "title": "Oh, this is gonna be good. Qwen's 27B model is their best one yet, at least for everyday workloads. In version 3.8, it's going to be amazing. With Unsloth making it run on GPUs under 20 GB, this is going to put it well within reach of a LOT of everyday users.", "publisher_name": "@healthranger", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/healthranger", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/healthranger" }, { "url": "https://x.com/mrahmadawais/status/2084127813058408485", "title": "@AlibabaGroup thank you for deciding to open source it. we shipped it in @CommandCodeAI and this is one of the few models that solved all our internal benchmark hard questions on 3x runs. excited to see 27B and hopefully 35B version as well.", "author": "Ahmad Awais", "publisher_name": "@mrahmadawais", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/mrahmadawais", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/mrahmadawais" }, { "url": "https://x.com/morganlinton/status/2084126597427478681", "title": "Okay, this time I can't deny it, big win for local AI. This could be the first model I actually use for daily coding, running 100% locally.", "author": "Morgan", "publisher_name": "@morganlinton", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/morganlinton", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/morganlinton" }, { "url": "https://x.com/matviy_ch/status/2084119699831537707", "title": "@yacineMTB Anthropic gets decimated with their prices. Biggest beating in AI history. How many billions in valuation will they lose before an IPO? @Polymarket guy, you have to make the odds for that.", "author": "Matviy", "publisher_name": "@matviy_ch", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/matviy_ch", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/matviy_ch" }, { "url": "https://x.com/natolambert/status/2084119083973574899", "title": "Here we go, another week another frontier open weight model.", "author": "Nathan Lambert", "publisher_name": "@natolambert", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/natolambert", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/natolambert" }, { "url": "https://x.com/gelassoldat/status/2084118266008494393", "title": "@UnslothAI Can we squeeze this in GPU models with 16g vram? Would love to see that.", "author": "Ryan", "publisher_name": "@gelassoldat", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/gelassoldat", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/gelassoldat" }, { "url": "https://x.com/cline/status/2084116913282789531", "title": "Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's largest model yet at 2.4T params, and shows a 2% higher benchmark result on Terminal-Bench than Fable 5. This comes just days after DeepSeek V4-Flash claims similar performance. Open weights have surpassed closed models.", "publisher_name": "@cline", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/cline", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/cline" }, { "url": "https://x.com/vsaietta/status/2084115548338626871", "title": "@Yuchenj_UW even with a clean license, a 2T+ param model isn't something most people can run locally anyway, that gate is hardware not legal text. open weights at this size mostly help labs that already have the GPUs to serve it, not individual devs on a single box.", "publisher_name": "@vsaietta", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/vsaietta", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/vsaietta" }, { "url": "https://x.com/arena/status/2084115116694339941", "title": "Qwen3.8-Max by @Alibaba_Qwen has reshaped the cost-performance Pareto frontier in Frontend Code Arena, with pricing of $2 per input MToken and $6 per output MToken. Top models on the Pareto frontier: - Claude-Opus-5 - Kimi-K3 - Qwen3.8-Max - GLM-5.2 - DeepSeek-V4-Flash Congrats to @Alibaba_Qwen on another major milestone!", "publisher_name": "@arena", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/arena", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/arena" }, { "url": "https://x.com/suchenzang/status/2084114906182476247", "title": "probed it with a math question: seems to have the formatting style of sol and the reasoning laziness of opus, but the weights are dropping next week so i'm definitely not complaining", "author": "Susan Zhang", "publisher_name": "@suchenzang", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/suchenzang", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/suchenzang" }, { "url": "https://x.com/morganlinton/status/2084114535624110458", "title": "Sunday nights are now for model drops.", "author": "Morgan", "publisher_name": "@morganlinton", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/morganlinton", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/morganlinton" }, { "url": "https://x.com/chahatusharma/status/2084114341100429316", "title": "Brother the “hopefully MIT” is doing a LOT of work there. Qwen's open releases have run Apache 2.0, and a Max class model is exactly where a company starts bolting on usage restrictions. Until the license file is actually up next week this is an announcement, not an open weight model", "author": "Chahat Sharma", "publisher_name": "@chahatusharma", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/chahatusharma", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/chahatusharma" }, { "url": "https://x.com/jun_song/status/2084113089998512270", "title": "Another frontier AI dropped from Qwen. They are saying Qwen3.8-27B is coming. That's the most interesting part.", "author": "Jun Song", "publisher_name": "@jun_song", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/jun_song", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/jun_song" }, { "url": "https://x.com/cgtwts/status/2084112857059475803", "title": "“Sir, a new open-source model just dropped. It is 2.5x cheaper on input, 4.2x cheaper on output and almost matches Claude Opus 5”. [image]", "publisher_name": "@cgtwts", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/cgtwts", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/cgtwts" }, { "url": "https://x.com/yacinemtb/status/2084110324706218054", "title": "And just like that Commoditized", "author": "Kache", "publisher_name": "@yacinemtb", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/yacinemtb", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/yacinemtb" }, { "url": "https://x.com/rastrapalamoab/status/2084109626942067096", "title": "@scaling01 This is what Gemini 3.5 Pro was supposed to be like if it was released on time 2 months ago", "publisher_name": "@rastrapalamoab", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/rastrapalamoab", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/rastrapalamoab" }, { "url": "https://x.com/xiong_hui_chen/status/2084109465872486879", "title": "Excited to share our latest work at Qwen — Qwen3.8-Max! Open weights are coming next week, together with Qwen3.8-27B. More to come 👀", "publisher_name": "@xiong_hui_chen", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/xiong_hui_chen", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/xiong_hui_chen" }, { "url": "https://x.com/kylehessling1/status/2084109060354490581", "title": "New Qwen 3.8 27B confirmed soon!  @Alibaba_Qwen is currently carrying the entire open source AI scene …", "author": "Kyle Hessling", "publisher_name": "@kylehessling1", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/kylehessling1", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/kylehessling1" }, { "url": "https://x.com/teortaxestex/status/2084108612356427785", "title": "Ok these are pretty good scores ...though some crucial agentic ones (NL2Repo, DeepSWE, Agent's Last Exam, AutomationBench) are surprisingly close to the new V4-Flash. But it has vision and it's a big boy. Also, for the first time ever, we'll see @htihle test Qwen-Max. interesting.", "publisher_name": "@teortaxestex", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/teortaxestex", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/teortaxestex" }, { "url": "https://x.com/dtcb/status/2084107701856940222", "title": "@AndrewCurran_ I used the preview model while they were polishing it up. It was quite fast, owing to the linear attention and sparsity. It was definitely not competitive with K3 in my experience. Much less thorough. Wouldn't rely on it. Still a big Qwen fan, but figured I'd share my 2!", "author": "Cole Brown", "publisher_name": "@dtcb", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/dtcb", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/dtcb" }, { "url": "https://x.com/yuchenj_uw/status/2084105482743287960", "title": "Qwen3.8-Max is going open-weight next week. It marks the first time Qwen will open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model. The second >2T open-weight model after Kimi K3, the benchmark results look amazing, hopefully it's MIT license. Let's go oss LLMs!", "author": "Yuchen Jin", "publisher_name": "@yuchenj_uw", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/yuchenj_uw", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/yuchenj_uw" }, { "url": "https://x.com/lottolabs/status/2084105381996077237", "title": "Bros they did it the madmen did it Qwen 27b 3.8 is here", "publisher_name": "@lottolabs", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/lottolabs", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/lottolabs" }, { "url": "https://x.com/skiipy88/status/2084105170170896433", "title": "@scaling01 Let's be honest, 3.8 27B is the real headline", "publisher_name": "@skiipy88", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/skiipy88", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/skiipy88" }, { "url": "https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2084104903564410950", "title": "This model just broke the harnessmaxximg approach of the closed labs. By mixing in harnesses as part of the unified reward suite, the new 2T+ Qwen model generalizes across harnesses! [image]", "author": "Andrew Carr", "publisher_name": "@andrew_n_carr", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/andrew_n_carr", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/andrew_n_carr" }, { "url": "https://x.com/shuai_bai_/status/2084103213322784886", "title": "One of the things we are most excited about in Qwen3.8-Max is its multimodal intelligence. …", "author": "Shuai Bai", "publisher_name": "@shuai_bai_", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/shuai_bai_", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/shuai_bai_" }, { "url": "https://x.com/alibabagroup/status/2084102898796105964", "title": "Introducing Qwen3.8-Max, the largest and most capable flagship model to date! With 2.4 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, it is designed for advanced coding, real-world tasks, in-depth research, and tackling long-horizon challenges. #AlibabaAI #Qwen", "publisher_name": "@alibabagroup", "publisher_url": "https://x.com/alibabagroup", "publisher_avatar": "https://unavatar.io/x/alibabagroup" }, { "url": "https://x.com/andrewcurran_/status/2084102878399193413", "title": "The new Qwen is here, and it is very strong. Open weights will be released next week. 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