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22 April 2026 5h23

LS was the first podcast cursor ever did listen back to baby @amanrsanger when they were 5 people and pre-PMF

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AI Automation Boosts Small Business Performance and Employee Morale

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22 April 2026 5h19

Small businesses will need our help.

A dentist I interviewed a while back told me:

1. Sales went up.
2. Customer satisfaction went up.
3. Employee morale went up.

After they automated their customer’s journey with AI (and their whole office). Only putting their fingers in your… https://t.co/npgTCAsEXK
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 22 avril 2026

Small businesses will need our help. A dentist I interviewed a while back told me: 1. Sales went up.
2. Customer satisfaction went up.
3. Employee morale went up. After they automated their customer’s journey with AI (and their whole office). Only putting their fingers in your

Seed round funding announcement surprises investors

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22 April 2026 5h17

jesus h christ that seed round

Cursor xAI Partnership: $60B Option for SOTA Coding Model

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22 April 2026 5h13

If Cursor trains a genuinely SOTA coding model on xAI's infra, xAI exercises the $60B option and Grok instantly becomes a top-tier coding agent via the Cursor harness and 500K+ dev user base. If Cursor doesn't hit SOTA, xAI walks, pays $10B for "collaboration," and still got x.com/nmasc_/status/…

Anthropic Reverts Pricing Page Change Amid Policy Uncertainty

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22 April 2026 4h49

Anthropic have now reverted the change to their pricing page, but I've not yet seen any official announcement about what their policies are going to be going forward. More on my blog:

Anthropic Quietly Restores Claude Code Access for Pro Users

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22 April 2026 4h19

Has anyone seen ANY official communication from Anthropic or an Anthropic staff member about the fact that the checkbox for Claude Code on Pro is back to being checked again, or is the only evidence that they've reversed course on this that one box on http://
claude.com/pricing?

Anthropic Reverses Claude Code Pricing After Public Backlash

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22 April 2026 4h14

Wrote up Anthropic's self-own about Claude Code pricing from this afternoon on my blog – it turned out they'd reversed course just as I hit publish, so I've tried to update it to reflect the current state

Cursor Raises $50B at $50B Valuation with XAI Exclusive Contract

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22 April 2026 2h13

good analysis. rumors had pegged the fundraise at $50B so this basically values Cursor at $50B premoney with a $10B revenue (11 figures!) exclusive model contract with xai.

Claude Code Pricing Strategy Questioned: $100 Without $20 Trial

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22 April 2026 2h01

The most puzzling thing about this: if they want people to spend $100/month on Claude Code surely those people need a $20/month option to try it out first? Who's going to drop $100 just to try it?