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BREAKING: All-in-one commerce platform Whop raised a $200M Series D at a $5.1B valuation from Sequoia and Shopify The startup recently surpassed $400M in ARR and will use the fresh capital to grow its team and expand internationally Legendary VC Doug Leone will also join the board
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BREAKING: Man who graduated from Princeton with a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2024 has applied to 2,300 jobs without receiving a single offer.
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BREAKING: Blackstone created an AI CIO trained on 14 years of internal deal memos Every investment up for review at Blackstone now comes with two memos: one from the deal team and one from the AI CIO, though the AI doesn't have a vote
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TRENDING: University of Chicago students are protesting at the CME, demanding an end to the federal ban on onion futures Student-led group For Our Futures is rallying to call for a repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act
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TRENDING: Anthropic has quietly pitched its own AI safety bill to lawmakers The bill would let the government block a model's release or use if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1B in damages, or ​of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people
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BREAKING: CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator and affiliated entities have sold nearly $1 billion of stock since the company’s March 2025 IPO.
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BREAKING: The Tesla Roadster can fly
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JUST IN: A massive ramp has been spotted ahead of Tesla’s Roadster announcement.
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JUST IN: Tesla's Roadster model is forecasted to take flight tonight at its unveiling. Markets predict an 81% chance the Roadster flies for 1 second or more, up 54% since last night.
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JUST IN: Sony has unveiled three new high-end Walkman music players for audiophiles, led by a $5,900 flagship with a gold-plated copper body that the company says improves sound quality.
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BREAKING: The merger between Perella Weinberg and Piper Sandler is off after too many PWP bankers didn't want to join the new firm in an all-stock combination.
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NEWS: Venture fund a16z has laid off most of its executive recruiting team.
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BREAKING: Anthropic is down nearly 10% in the last month, falling below a $2 trillion implied valuation on Liquid. Institutional investors will get a first-look at Anthropic’s highly-anticipated financials today in a closed door investor day held in SF.
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BREAKING: Dave's Hot Chicken overtook Muse as the top downloaded free app on the App Store
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BREAKING: Odds for another rate hike this month surge following September's CPI report showing +3.7% YoY. Markets are now predicting a 44% chance of a 25bps increase at the October Fed meeting.
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BREAKING: Odds for Anthropic to report another AI "sandbox" escape this month have plummeted. Markets predict a 20% chance of an AI agent breaking out of its environment this month, down 17% in the last 24 hours.
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NEWS: McKinsey removed senior partner Chris Bradley from leadership roles after his LinkedIn comments about women CEOs Bradley clashed on LinkedIn with former Citigroup exec Julia Carreon over the "glass cliff," the idea that women are more often made CEO of struggling companies He called the theory "a very convenient way to always be a victim in the rain and empowered in the sunshine"
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BREAKING: The Federal Trade Commission and seven states have launched contempt proceedings against “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, the convicted fraudster barred for life from the pharmaceutical industry.
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NEWS: ScaleDown launches Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs): task-specific models for classification, extraction, and summarization that skip the generative loop entirely. They read the input once and return structured outputs directly. 200x faster and 467x cheaper than frontier LLM APIs, with 1M-token multimodal context. Live on OpenRouter, Vercel, LangChain, and others. A game changer in how token economics will work for companies looking to deploy AI internally.
Neal Patel
@neal_k_patel
Oct 13
You already gave the LLM the answer. So why is it writing it out from scratch? Introducing a new AI model architecture: Constrained Decoding Models (CDMs) LLMs were built to write. Most production workloads just need an answer: fast, consistent, and affordable. CDMs are purpose-built for 1 task each. They read your input once and skip the token-by-token generative loop that makes LLMs slow and expensive. Not just a decision model, but a family of 3 CDMs live today: • Classify: define your labels and get back a calibrated probability + reason for each. Used for routing, tagging, and intent detection. • Extract: describe the entities in natural language and get back well-formed JSON with confidence scores + citations. Used for web scraping, document processing, and PII redaction. • Summarize: pass in long text, images, or PDFs and get back a consistent summary under 1,000 tokens. Used for context compaction, metadata generation, and transcript digests. Built for production: • 1M tokens of multimodal (text + image) input, 31x larger than Jev • 77.2% on DecisionBench vs Jev's 72% • 200x faster, 467x cheaper than frontier LLM APIs • $0.05/M input tokens. Output is free (yes, even for summarize) Live on your favorite platforms today: @OpenRouter @vercel_dev @LiteLLM @LangChain @TrustedRouter @itsArthurAI @useRouterPlus Get 50M input tokens for free (for the first 50 hours) at link below 👀
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JUST IN: Workday $WDAY and Anthropic have announced a new partnership. Workday's Sana AI agents can now connect with Claude for finance and human relations work.
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BREAKING: Apple CEO John Ternus has announced Apple Homeview.
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BREAKING: Google is expected to release its highly anticipated Gemini 4 "Argon" model this week. Traders predict an 80% chance the Gemini 4.0 model is released by October 16, up 25% in just 24 hours.
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NEWS: Anduril founder Palmer Luckey expressed support for "public and brutal" executions of convicted terrorists "Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropriate confidence or revulsion in the institution" -Palmer Luckey
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NEWS: Zuckerberg says $META has caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI race and rejected calls to slow down development
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BREAKING: Getty Images is filing for bankruptcy and will go private in a restructuring deal with the Koch family’s investment firm.
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JUST IN: Deloitte allegedly helped falsify documents to conceal Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s wealth and help evade taxes.
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BREAKING: Lone Pine Capital’s hedge fund has given back nearly all of its 2026 gains, falling from up 44% through June to up just 0.6% at the end of Q3.
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JUST IN: Firmus, the Australian AI data center company backed by Nvidia, has withdrawn plans for its expected massive IPO.
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BREAKING: Anthropic's ARR is now at $65B as of the end of July, up from $9B at the end of 2025.
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BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy's nuclear startup reaches a $1.9B valuation in new funding round.
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JUST IN: Apple $AAPL has reduced component orders for its iPhone 18 Pro models by at least 15% this month, citing "weaker-than-expected" demand.
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BREAKING: SpaceX announces an agreement to acquire a low-band spectrum license portfolio that will allow Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
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BREAKING: President Trump announces that the White House considers anyone who uses the term “Artificial Intelligence” the enemy.
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BREAKING: Brent crude oil prices rise above $105/barrel on reports that President Trump is considering resuming “major combat operations” in Iran.
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BREAKING: Rivian has secured a $1B loan from Volkswagen. The 10-year, non-recourse loan carries a fixed 6.03% yield and is secured only by Rivian's 50% stake in its joint venture with Volkswagen. Principal repayment of $100M/year begins in year three, with the remaining balance due in October 2036.
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BREAKING: First Brands Group founder Patrick James and brother Edward plan to mount opposing defenses at trial. Each will cast the other as responsible for the alleged multibillion-dollar scheme to defraud lenders that drove the auto parts giant's 2025 collapse.
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BREAKING: Last year, ethnic minority employees at the BBC were paid more on average than their white counterparts in six of its seven pay bands.
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BREAKING: Markets see the next Fed rate cut being in July 2027. Odds are at 51% for a rate cut in July 2027.
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JUST IN: Google is closing in on Anthropic in the race for the best AI model of 2026. Traders now predict Anthropic has a 48% chance of holding the top spot at year-end, down from about 80% just over a week ago, while Google has surged from roughly 11% to 42%.
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BREAKING: Wall Street bonuses are expected to hit an all-time high, with industry profits on pace to top $90B this year, roughly $25B above last year's record of $65.1B.
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BREAKING: Erebor, the bank cofounded by Palmer Luckey, has surpassed $7B in deposits since launching in February. The bank aims to replace SVB as the lender of choice for tech startups, with significant early traction from defense & manufacturing companies.
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JUST IN: Nvidia is worth $1T more than Apple.
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BREAKING: Google $GOOG and Constellation Energy $CEG have announced a 20-year power-purchase agreement. The deal will add 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity to the grid through a $4.3B investment to upgrade 11 existing reactors.
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BREAKING: The U.S. government is growing increasingly likely to take an equity stake in Anduril. Markets now predict a 21% chance that the U.S. federal government takes a stake in Anduril Industries.
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JUST IN: Anduril and the U.S. Navy have announced a $6.6B investment to dramatically expand submarine parts production.
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JUST IN: OpenAI is growing increasingly likely to hit a $1.5T valuation by December 31. Traders price a 32% chance that OpenAI's valuation reches $1.5T by 2027.
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BREAKING: It is growing increasingly likely that the 30-year Treasury hits 6.00% by the end of this year. Markets predict a 27% chance that the Treasury yield hits 6.00% by 2027.
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BREAKING: Niobrara Capital Partners, the new mid-market PE firm of former State Secretary Mike Pompeo, raised $1.1 billion for its debut fund The fund will focus on B2B technology and tech-enabled services companies that it identifies as first or second derivative beneficiaries of key technology megatrends
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BREAKING: Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed to "SpaceXSI" after Trump changed the name of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" to "Super Intelligence (SI)." "No more AI. SI. It’s better." ~Elon Musk
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BREAKING: Trump announces the launch of the 'Super Intelligence Force' (SIF), tasked with ensuring that 'America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence'.
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