…and what you can do about it.
Dark Cloud Gathers as Bill Comes Due for AI Industry
AI companies are finding they can no longer sustain footing the bill of their heavily vibe coding customers.
A critical juncture for public cloud providers
As more enterprises leave the cloud or express real concern with rising prices, vendors must adapt to retain enterprise customers.
Dark Code
A few months ago, a founder I know had a data leak that took his security team four days to understand.
Tren Griffin on Twitter / X
Software isn't Ending.Hoping the expense of creating software creates pricing power has always been a triumph of hope over experience.If a software business doesn't have attributes like network effects that create pricing power, its life can be nasty, brutish and short. pic.twitter.com/yzTVAdG2xb— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) June 2, 2024
OpenAI targets workplace professionals as enterprise AI demand surges
‘These leaders recognize AI as the most consequential shift of their lifetime, and they’re asking us how to reinvent their companies around it’
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Machines of Buying and Selling Grace - Adam Behrens, New Generation
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Umbrella organization rethinking machine-learning technology as tools that work for people, not just corporations
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
Mercor on Twitter / X
The privacy and security of our customers and contractors is foundational to everything we do at Mercor. We recently identified that we were one of thousands of companies impacted by a supply chain attack involving LiteLLM.Our security team moved promptly to contain and…— Mercor (@mercor_ai) March 31, 2026
What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026
In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…
