Edition №43

The One Thing

• Transpacific ocean rates fueled by early peak, frontloading

Signals

• The Mom-and-Pop SaaS era has arrived
• LTL carrier Mountain Valley Express shuts down
• Feds to target tip credits, child labor, EEO-1 reports and more in new rules
• Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
• Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
• Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking
• Harley-Davidson retaliated against manager for protesting DEI rollback, lawsuit alleges
• Disparate impact liability rollback advances with DOL rule on federal funding access
• A Pizza Giant Is Rapidly Expanding—but One of Its Biggest Operators Just Filed for Bankruptcy
• Outbound Isn’t Dead. AI Just Radically Changed How It Works.
• Chip stocks sell off after Samsung earnings fall short of high AI bar

Watch Your Back

• SEC Forms New Retail Fraud Working Group
• Siemens SINEC OS

Antics

• South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters
• Doom developer id reportedly cut in half as part of Xbox layoffs
• Why Big Tech Cloning Your AI Startup Is Actually a Win

What's Being Built

• Dupely — The trust layer for online shopping
• Scribble Network — The product that makes AI recommend your brand
• Badge — AI agents collect peer reviews to generate proof of work