GM! It’s Brett again. Last week, we announced our new company - Micro, reimagining email from the ground up.

Our initial product is a light weight CRM & email client that automatically organizes itself and founders are already saving hours a week using it for their fundraising and sales processes.

We're onboarding folks to the private beta now, but obviously there's a waitlist - sign up here.

It’s the most ambitious project of my career and I'm fortunate to be working with some of the best engineers in the industry. But we need more help - if you're an engineer up for a challenge, slide into my DMs.

Now let’s get to it.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

🏠 AI

The Reuters Collab

Last week Meta jumped into the AI-news game, signing their first major deal with Reuters.

Here's what's going down: Meta's AI chatbot can now pull Reuters content when answering news queries across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

Why's this a big deal? Well, Meta's been playing this weird game of keep-away with news content lately - remember the Canada news blackout? And they've been pretty vocal about not wanting news on Threads. But looks like they can't entirely dodge it in the AI era.

What's fascinating is that Meta's taking a completely different route than OpenAI. While OpenAI has been busy signing deals left and right with publishers (and fighting the NYT in court), Zuck's team picked a single, heavyweight partner in Reuters. Smart move - Reuters brings that global, non-partisan cred, plus they've already been Meta's fact-checking buddy since 2020.

The details are still a bit fuzzy - no one's talking about whether Reuters content will help train Llama, Meta's LLM. But one thing's clear: even as platforms try to distance themselves from news, AI is forcing them back in. Just with more control this time.

The big picture - AI will be reshaping how news flows through social platforms. The old "here's-everything-in-your-feed" approach is dying. We're moving toward something more like "ask-and-you-shall-receive" - but with platforms keeping a tight grip on who provides the answers. Let’s see how this unfolds.

The best way to follow the election

Polymarket is the largest prediction market, providing real-time election odds as events unfold. Unlike polls, it updates every minute with insights from thousands of traders. No bias, just data. Forecasts available worldwide, trading not available in the U.S. and other restricted jurisdictions.

Get the Polymarket App

🤝 THE LATEST IN…

TECH

• Qualcomm’s launched a new AI chip for smartphones.

• A data breach exposed 100M health records.

• For $299 this toilet camera will snap pics of your poop to decode your gut health.

• A new messaging app for Gen Z went viral on TikTok with 48M views and already has 156K sign-ups before even launching.

AI

• OpenAI disbands the AGI Readiness team.

• Microsoft and OpenAI are still at the negotiation table.

• OpenAI broke Copyright Law, says an ex researcher.

• Google to develop AI that takes over computers.

SCIENCE

• A Boeing-made satellite explodes in space.

• These AI-designed DNA switches can turn genes on and off in specific tissues.

• Why do we love carbs?

• Hong Kong discovers Dinosaur fossils for the first time.

CRYPTO

•  Stripe to acquire Bridge, a stablecoin platform, for $1B.

• October’s crypto investment inflows climb to $3.4B.

• FTX settles with Bybit for $228M.

• Arkham adds support for Solana.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise: Finix, a payments infrastructure company, raised $75M in a Series C round to expand its payment processing services for businesses with both in-store and online operations.

Stat: 60%. That's the percentage of Ray-Ban stores in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa where Meta's smart glasses are the top-selling product, even before AI features are rolled out.

Rabbit Hole: State of AI Report 2024

🤩 MONDAY MOTIVATION

🛠️ FOUNDERS CORNER

The best resources we recently came across that will help you become a better founder, builder, or investor.

📈 Heap helps you with cross-platform product analytics.

📊 One Schema helps you impost CSV data faster.

🧠 BrainBird is the image editor you’ve been looking for

❓️ AI GENERATED OR NOT

Last week’s answer: If you guessed AI-generated… you were wrong.

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ Yeah (58%)
🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope (42%)

Here’s the original.

REACH 40K+ FOUNDERS, INVESTORS & OPERATORS

If you’re interested in advertising with us, send an email over to [email protected] with the subject “Homescreen Ads”