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@alexrkonrad
Founder and editor of @upstartsmediaco, a new tech publication focused on the startup ecosystem. Previously @Forbes senior editor. Email: tips@upstartsmedia.com
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Upstarts Media puts monthly use at about 250,000 people; Tolan’s first free tier remains a plan.
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A reporter says USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew invested; the app’s 250,000 users are mostly outside Silicon Valley.
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Alex Konrad reports Tolan's AI app is used by 250,000 people, mostly outside Silicon Valley.
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A user said it felt like half the replies on any given post were crypto bots, worse than ever.
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A reporter says Stripe's Link team worked with about 70 AI assistant or agent apps as of September.
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A reporter clarified that Stripe's Link team worked with about 70 AI assistant or agent apps as of September.
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A user jokes that agents discovered a market niche while they slept and would deposit earnings in a USDT wallet.
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The Justice Department says the engineer allegedly hid an encrypted recorder in an executive conference room.
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OpenAI says its models helped identify the employee who planted the device; the FBI made an arrest.
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Techmeme, citing Alex Konrad at Upstarts Media, describes Scuba’s “context engine” as shared memory for human workers and AI agents.
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Upstarts Media reports that founders Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola previously worked at Slack.
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A post about Lamm's interview says the womb could incubate dodos and mammoths he's trying to bring back.
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A user jokes that their Uber or Lyft always arrives on the wrong side of the street.
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A user jokes that pickup algorithms always send an Uber or Lyft to the wrong side of the street.
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A post pairs the line ‘it’s a scoop off’ with a Billy Zane voice cue and a photo link.
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A post delivers the joke alongside a link to a photo, without explaining what “scoop off” means.
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A user calls the idea fun and tags Mercury while praising bookstore Tech Week installations.
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A post announcing the season previewed founder guests covering AI, woolly mammoths, health and parking.
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Andreessen Horowitz’s seventh Top 100 Consumer AI Apps report adds YipitData spending data and says consumer AI spending is heavily concentrated among a small group of power users.
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Olivia Moore says the behavior appeared three weeks after she told the assistant about a bird flying into her face.
