AI Coding Startup Cursor Hits $2 Billion Annual Sales Rate (2 minute read)
Cursor is one of the fastest-growing startups of all time. It is less than five years old, yet its product is already ingrained in many software programmers' daily routine. The company's annualized revenue topped $2 billion in February. About 60% of the revenue is coming from corporate customers. The startup was valued at $29.3 billion in November, making it one of the most valuable AI startups in the US.
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Anthropic vs. White House puts $60 billion at risk (3 minute read)
The $60 billion investment into Anthropic from over 200 venture capital investors is now at risk due to a contract dispute with the Pentagon. Anthropic being designated a supply chain risk is unprecedented. It will prevent other military contractors from deploying Claude in their applications. It could also require companies like Nvidia, which do business with the US military, to sever their commercial activities with Anthropic. The situation is becoming an existential moment for all of American AI and its investors.
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Chinese AI Firm MiniMax More Than Doubles Revenue in First Post-IPO Results (2 minute read)
Chinese AI startup MiniMax's annual revenue soared to $79 million in 2025 from $30.5 million the previous year. Net loss widened to $1.87 billion from $465.2 million. Analysts were expecting the equivalent of about $72 million in revenue and a net loss of roughly $564 million. These are the first results published since the company went public in January. Its shares have increased more than fourfold from their IPO price, pushing the company's market capitalization past $30 billion.
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Keeping community human while scaling with agents (6 minute read)
Vercel developed the Community Guardian to handle routine tasks like routing, triage, and follow-ups, allowing team members to focus on meaningful interactions. The Guardian uses tools like AI Gateway and Vercel Workflows to efficiently manage community posts. Meanwhile, c0, a research assistant in Slack, gathers context from various sources, improving response times and accuracy for the team.
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The State of Consumer AI. Part 1 - Usage (10 minute read)
AI apps have now crossed 1 billion weekly active users, with ChatGPT accounting for 900 million. ChatGPT is the only AI app with both the installed base and new user momentum to become the core utility. Its lead is even more pronounced across DAU:MAU ratios, retention, and time spent. The challenge now is to see whether the usage is deepening into genuine habit or still behaving like a utility people visit briefly and leave.
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Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops (11 minute read)
Alibaba recently unveiled its Qwen3.5 Small Model Series. Qwen3.5-0.8B and 2B are intended for prototyping and deployment on edge devices where battery life is paramount. Qwen3.5-4B is a strong multimodal base for lightweight agents with a 262,144 token context window. Qwen3.5-9B is a compact reasoning model that outperforms OpenAI's open source gpt-oss-120B on key third-party benchmarks. The weights for the models are available now under Apache 2.0 licenses on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
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Diffusion Language Model (GitHub Repo)
dLLM consolidates training and evaluation workflows for diffusion-based language models into a single library, aiming to improve transparency and reproducibility across the development pipeline.
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The other side of ads in ChatGPT: Advertiser perspective (7 minute read)
This article provides details on how OpenAI's ads program works for advertisers. Some of the companies invited to trial ads in ChatGPT include Adobe, Target, Albertson, and WPP Media. Each was asked to commit to at least $200,000. The companies selected specific words that have to be prompted by users for the business to be advertised. Advertisers are managed manually.
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Anthropic CEO responds to Trump order, Pentagon clash (27 minute video)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat down with CBS News for an exclusive interview hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk to national security, which restricts military contractors from doing business with the AI giant. Amodei called the move "retaliatory and punitive," and he said Anthropic sought to draw "red lines" in the government's use of its technology because "we believe that crossing those lines is contrary to American values, and we wanted to stand up for American values."
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llmfit (GitHub Repo)
llmfit is a terminal tool that right-sizes large language models to fit a system's RAM, CPU, and GPU.
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