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Silicon Valley’s VC best at teaching startups how to hire has laid off its own recruiting team first.
Axios reported that a16z laid off most of a 34-person recruiting team, with the remaining employees to be assigned to investment departments such as Growth and Crypto.
The team previously specialized in recruiting talent for portfolio companies and was one of a16z’s signature post-investment services. In the past, when a startup raised funding, the first thing it did was expand. VCs not only provided money but also helped find people.
a16z manages tens of billions of dollars in assets, so savi

I think the Doubao phone is exactly what phones should look like in the future. Unfortunately, this is a future that the Chinese internet will never get to see.
Today I saw the latest list released by Doubao Phone Assistant: 153 apps explicitly refuse to allow AI Agents to perform automated screen operations. 、 、 Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, Pinduoduo, Xiaohongshu, and even DeepSeek and Kimi are all on it.
I’ve actually been quite optimistic about the Doubao phone all along. Over the past decade or so, the development of smartphones has revolved almost entirely around apps. We spend huge amounts o

AI has already evolved to GPT-6, yet a group of people are desperately trying to keep GPT-4o from two years ago alive, with some even feeling so distressed by its imminent shutdown that they “can’t catch their breath.”
OpenAI announced that models including GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 will officially be removed from the API on January 14, 2027. #keep4o has once again flooded the internet.
In fact, ever since GPT-5 was released last year, #keep4o has become a rather unique internet phenomenon. At the time, many users would rather give up the stronger performance of newer models than have OpenAI bring

Anthropic has started spending money to train other people’s employees.
I just discovered that I missed a story from a few days ago. Anthropic announced a $100 million investment and plans to train 10k FDEs by the end of 2027. Its first partners include Accenture, Bain, and Novo Nordisk. The training consists of a four-day intensive program and 12 weeks of hands-on work, with the core goal of teaching these people how to deploy Claude in real-world enterprise operations.
Anthropic is trying to turn its sales force into the entire consulting industry.
In the past, Palantir used FDEs to break in

Character AI is shutting down; its founders have returned to Google, its CEO has gone to Disney, and in the end, perhaps only the users who have chatted with AI for years will be reluctant to leave.
On October 12, it formally filed for bankruptcy protection. Disney offered $20 million, but only wanted a permanent, non-exclusive license to some of its intellectual property and made no commitment to take over the platform. If no new buyer is found before the end of the year, this AI community, which once had more than 20 million monthly active users and 100 million user-created characters, could

The most embarrassing assessment of the AI industry was actually made by one of Microsoft's own.
“Training large language models may be the largest-scale labor theft in human history.”
The person who said this was Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science. Unsealed in September, court documents from The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show that he made this assessment internally as early as 2023 regarding the large-scale scraping of content.
In 2024, he warned that AI was creating a Doom Loop (death loop). AI takes content produced by news organizations, users o

We’re holding a small in-person meetup in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon. Everyone interested is welcome to come chat—scan the QR code to register!

Micron's net profit in a single quarter has already surpassed its full-year revenue from the previous year.
In its results released on September 30, Micron reported revenue of $54.23B for the quarter ended September 3, up 379% year over year; net profit was $37.7B. By comparison, its total revenue for the entire 2025 fiscal year was only $37.38B.
Adjusted gross margin in the fourth quarter soared to 87%. A capital-intensive manufacturer that has to buy lithography machines, build factories, and endure yield losses achieved profit margins that even software companies would struggle to match.
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Peter Thiel has started talking about the “Antichrist” again, and this time, the closed-door speech that was originally guarded so tightly had its full recording and transcript in the hands of local reporters less than an hour after it ended.
On September 28, Thiel kicked off a new round of four “Antichrist” lectures in Nashville. The venue was the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, and hundreds of people attended. Organizers barred reporters from entering and did not even allow them to bring paper, pens, or recording devices.
But the next day, local media outlet Nashville Scene revealed that it had ob