Saturday, November 7, 2026

The Components of Agent Memory (opens anthropic.com)

GitHub’s Growth: 225M Developers, 34.3B Commits — Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft (opens youtube.com)

GitHub’s next scaling challenge is the agent workload. The platform has 225 million developers and handled 34.3 billion commits over the past year. Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI at Microsoft, joins us straight after his GitHub Universe keynote to talk about rebuilding the software-development stack for…

Cooking with Reducto’s CEO: Why PDFs Still Break AI — Adit Abraham (opens youtube.com)

Why do PDFs still break AI? Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham joins Allen Park on Latent Space Cooking to talk AI document parsing and make a steak sandwich with burrata, torched peaches, and chimichurri. From the YC pivot out of long-term memory to Reducto R1 and Deep Extract, Adit explains…

Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter (opens youtube.com)

Altimeter's Jamin Ball walks through the roadshow, the Thanksgiving window and what investors would need to believe about Claude.

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Defense And Space Tech Lead For Large Rounds (opens news.crunchbase.com)

Crunchbase's weekly roundup of the largest rounds; Shield AI's $2B led the week.

How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies (opens ft.com)

How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies — Voter hostility to Big Tech helped shape the US midterms, and similar fears are spreading through the west.

General Catalyst Tops Lead Investors For October In Busy Month For US Startup Dealmaking (opens news.crunchbase.com)

October was a busy month for U.S. startup funding, led by well-known venture investors with a healthy appetite for big deals. We take a look at active investor rankings across three categories: lead deal count, largest lead investments and total venture rounds.

Defense in Depth, Rebuilt for Machine Speed (opens a16z.news)

Six generational opportunities we see