World bets proof of human, not KYC, will secure agentic finance
Tiago Sada of Tools for Humanity argues real-time deepfakes and a flood of AI agents are breaking online trust, forcing banks to choose between blocking bots and verifying them.
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AI video startup reached $25 million revenue on $10 million raised
Jeff Lou of a Cool argues that small, task-specific video models and self-serve demand can build a $25 million business without frontier-lab budgets, even as long-form realism stays unsolved.
AI-era sales quotas double or triple while commission rates shrink
Bardia, VP of sales at Granola and former Fireworks sales leader, argues AI velocity is reshaping quotas, team structure and pay, while enterprise legal reviews still slow deals.
Blitzy says it handles 100M-line codebases by limiting each agent's context
Blitzy field CTO Joe Burn argues autonomous agents can modernize legacy code at enterprise scale, with humans setting direction and compute doing the work, in a sponsored interview.
Agents make the UI optional, but business logic stays sticky
a16z's Sema Amble and Steven Sonowski examine whether agents reduce enterprise software to a dumb database, or whether embedded business logic, exceptions and incumbent incentives keep systems indispensable.
Wabi bets multiplayer messengers, not single-player chat, will win consumer agents
Wabi CEO Eugenia argues that personal agents trapped in single text threads lack moats, and that proactive, app-building agents embedded in group messengers will create network effects.
Travis Kalanick treats food and mining as computers made of atoms
Travis Kalanick, Uber's founder, argues entire industries can be automated by treating atoms like bits, but must first overcome the resistance to change that has dogged every industrial revolution.