







Atlassian today announced that it has acquired project management service Trello for $425 million. The vast majority of the transaction is in cash ($360
This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staff
Atlassian sold $320 million worth of business software last year without a single sales employee. Everyone else in the industry noticed.

Ready, set, code: how engineering teams use Trello - Inside Atlassian
After speaking with many engineering teams about how they use Trello, we’re compiling all of their wisdom into one handy guide: The Trello Playbook For Engineering Teams is officially merged to prod. Keep reading for 5 sample Trello boards you can copy for your team!

Power-Up Your Productivity with Trello Integrations
Connect Trello to the apps you use everyday. With over 200 available integrations, Trello ensures every team can meet their business goals.
I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab From Marketing Photos. Here's Why Your $1,400 Is Probably Gone.
A $1.7M Kickstarter built on forked academic research, undisclosed MoE architectures, split memory pools behind PCIe bottlenecks, and a company that won't tell you who they are. I did the math. The math doesn't care.

GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!

Arc just got acquired...by Atlassian???
Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.

OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push
OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into organizations that will then work closely with various teams to identify where AI can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.
OpenAI Announces $122 Billion Additional ‘Committed Capital’, and Announces Their ‘Superapp’ Plan for the Future
I don’t see the path from here to there, where *there* is a justification for a trillion-dollar-ish valuation.

Paramount’s new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion | CNN Business
Paramount has upped the ante in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing Monday that Larry Ellison will personally guarantee the tens of billions of dollars he is putting up to bankroll the transaction. The Ellisons will also let shareholders peer into the finances of their family trust.

Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M | TechCrunch
Mathias Biilmann — a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses — says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million. Here’s How I Did It.
I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time.

OpenAI bags over $4B to build ‘Deployment Company’ with TPG, Brookfield, Bain for enterprise AI rollout: Report — TFN
OpenAI has secured more than $4 billion from a group of 19 investors, including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent International, and Bain Capital.

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI
Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from **Jira**, **Confluence**, and other cloud products by default on **August 17, 2026**, to train its AI offerings including `Rovo` and `Rovo Dev`. The change affects roughly **300,000** customers; metadata collection is mandatory for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers and cannot be opted out on those plans. Enterprise customers can opt out of metadata and in-app collection by default. Collected data will be retained up to **seven years**, with in-app data removed within 30 days after deletion or opt-out and models retrained within 90 days. Customers using customer-managed keys, Atlassian Government Cloud, Isolated Cloud, or with HIPAA requirements are excluded from collection.

SparkToro Raised a Very Unusual Round of Funding & We're Open-Sourcing Our Docs - SparkToro
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.
