Nat Friedman

Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool

The central pitch of AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, Opera’s Neon, and The Browser Company’s Dia is that they’ll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser, Composite aims to build an agentic solution that helps professionals with their tasks, regardless of which browser they use. […]

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AI note-taking app Granola raises $43M at $250M valuation, launches collaborative features

AI-powered note-taking tool Granola has been on a roll. The startup’s seen a steep uptick in usage since it launched a year ago, mostly thanks to word of mouth among VCs and founders, but a big driver seems to be the fact that people are using it for doing more than its core pitch —

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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A bombshell Wired report said that Elon Musk had quietly selected at least six engineers, the oldest of which is reportedly 24, to help him run his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  The secrecy of the

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