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US startups swap OpenAI for Chinese models; Salesforce and Anthropic go all-in
US founders are routing real workloads to Chinese open-weight models after DeepSeek V4 Flash and Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 priced tokens at roughly a tenth of GPT-5.5. …
The Pricing Reckoning: Why Per-Seat SaaS Is Finally Dying
Enterprise SaaS spending hit $55.7M/year on average while CIOs cut vendor counts and 79% saw surprise renewal increases, creating the pressure that's finally …
AI Agents Are Burning Out Founders; DOJ Probes a16z — Your Week in Tech
The WSJ reports startup founders are logging brutal hours to keep pace with AI agents whose capabilities and model updates outrun human schedules, producing …
Apple rewrites EU App Store math as a16z coins the "Borderless Founder"
Apple will replace the Core Technology Fee with a 5% Core Technology Commission on out-of-App Store transactions in the EU starting October 1, and for the first …