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Frontier models perform better in Attio’s agent harness.
We gave GPT-6 Astra the same job twice: analyze 100 sales calls and draft the follow-ups, once in Ask Attio and once in ChatGPT.
Ask Attio finished in 4 minutes 49 seconds. ChatGPT took 26 minutes 11 seconds, about 5.4 times as long.
The most ambitious GTM work requires more than frontier intelligence. It requires architecture that can put that intelligence to work at scale.
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Happy Wednesday.
AI art of the day:
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Enjoy today's news.
Apple will restrict dating apps and romantic AI companions to users aged 18 and older starting November 16, aiming to protect minors.
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OpenAI claims ChatGPT handles about 20% as many searches as Google, counting any question that triggers a web search.
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BrainCo plans a brain-stimulating wearable to curb appetite, targeting a launch in China within two to three years as a drug-free alternative to GLP-1 medications.
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Canva announces layoffs and role changes affecting about 22% of its global workforce, or 1,271 people, giving departing staff six months’ pay and access to $10,000 grants.
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Claude Code product head Cat Wu leaves Anthropic, the team’s third exit in under two weeks, ahead of its IPO.
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Syncere raises $11M in pre-seed funding for Lume, a floor lamp that unfolds into robotic arms to handle chores like folding laundry.
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fal raises $1.65B at a $16B valuation to expand computing power for its platform, which runs AI image, video, and audio models.
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Binance links its $6.3B hack to a fake job interview and a tampered AI coding tool, both used by North Korea-linked hackers to infect engineers’ computers.
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Google will make its AI tools opt-in for K-12 schools in 2027, but schools that disable AI will also lose access to Google Search.
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Valve is updating Steam’s game approval process to speed up reviews as a surge in submissions, potentially fueled by AI-generated games, causes growing delays.
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Salesforce agrees to acquire Cresta for a reported $2.7B, bringing Cresta’s AI voice agents into its Service Cloud support software.
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Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch Gen 2, a robot that unloads up to 1,000 boxes an hour and runs for two shifts on a single charge.
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New The a16z Show episode: a16z partner Daisy Wolf interviews neuroscientist Andrew Huberman on protecting your most productive hours, training your brain for focus, and why he locks his social media phone in a box.
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New Sourcery episode: Molly O’Shea sits down with fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven to discuss their $1.65B raise, why generative media is one of AI’s three proven markets, and why compute providers, not apps, capture AI’s margins.
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New Figuring Out With Raj Shamani episode: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Raj to discuss how he spots non-consensus bets, why he avoids yes-men, and why he launched ChatGPT before it seemed ready.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. How to spot a North Korean spy during a job interview? Ask them to insult Kim Jong Un 😂
