🍴 AI Is Eating the Internet
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For our last edition before the August break, we’re diving into the impact of artificial intelligence on the world, the Internet, and software sales. We’ll also unpack the next big breakthrough in cross-border digital commerce and share the latest episode of Guillermo Flor and Rubén Domínguez’s podcast. Scroll down and enjoy the read.
🍴 AI Is Eating the Internet: An exploration of the Internet to come
The free, ad-supported Internet we’ve known is breaking apart, driven by AI. Instead of sending visitors to websites, AI tools now pull in content as training data and give answers directly. As traffic drops, sites add paywalls, bots scrape everything, and people move into private spaces like newsletters, influencers, small communities, and chat groups. What’s next? AI-powered assistants will replace search, trusted human creators will matter more than big media, and websites will start charging AI companies to access their data. The Internet will still be here—but it will be more closed off, personal, and shaped by AI.
🔮 What 2027 Looks Like?
The AI 2027 research report, released in April and led by AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, depicts a possible future where artificial intelligence radically transforms the world in just a few intense years. Drawing on expert forecasts, it presents two stark possibilities: a cautious slowdown or a high-stakes race. In the video We're Not Ready for Superintelligence, Aric Floyd brings these scenarios to life—exploring what they mean, their implications, and how a rational world might respond. Worth watching!
🛒 Selling SaaS in the AI Age
Over the past year, we’ve seen a major shift in how enterprise software is bought and sold. The old SaaS playbook of multiyear contracts and feature-based pitches is breaking down as AI-driven innovation is collapsing the shelf life of differentiation. Buyers now favor short-term experiments with vendors who ship fast, iterate visibly, and future-proof their workflows. In this new era, the moat isn’t the product—it’s velocity. Winning teams are closing smaller, faster deals, sharing transparent roadmaps, and selling their speed of iteration rather than a “perfect” feature set. Sophisticated buyers aren’t just buying functionality anymore—they’re buying confidence that you’ll evolve faster than the competition.
🪙 A Revolution in Cross-Border Digital Commerce
High fees for international payments could soon be history. PayPal has launched Pay with Crypto, a service that supports 100+ cryptocurrencies and popular wallets like Coinbase and MetaMask. It lets merchants accept crypto, instantly convert it to stablecoins or cash, and cut payment costs by up to 90%. This connects businesses to a $3+ trillion crypto market and 650M crypto users worldwide, making cross-border trade faster, cheaper, and easier. It’s a major step for global digital commerce, showing how crypto and stablecoins can remove banking hurdles and help businesses reach new customers around the world.
🎙 Podcast: From App Failure to Raising from Sam Altman
What started as a failed voice-to-text app became one of the fastest-growing analytics companies: $300M+ ARR and a $5B IPO. We're talking about Amplitude—the digital analytics platform from YC's W12 batch that helps startups become category leaders. Guillermo Flor and Ruben Dominguez Ibar sat down with the company's CEO and co-founder, Spenser Skates, to unpack his journey from early failure to building the go-to analytics platform for Midjourney, Coinbase, Atlassian, Canva, and more.
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