After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund
Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.
The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the…
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Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches
It’s unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers’ data.
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants Meta to have its own prediction market app.
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Stop chasing viral trends. Instead, choose a durable, validated sub-niche where you understand the customer’s pain, the economics work and reliable suppliers exist.
How AI Is Making the Old Go-to-Market Playbook Obsolete — and How to Adapt
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AI Is Changing How Your Business Shows Up on Google — Take These 5 Steps to Adapt
These five operating shifts will decide whether AI agents recommend your brand or quietly route around it.
Your Teams Did Everything Right — the Outcome Still Failed. Here’s Where Execution Broke Down.
A major initiative can fall short even when every team delivers what it promised. Here’s why.
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.