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S-Tier tech natives use Devin
Founded by three 22-year-olds in 2023, @mercor crossed $2B ARR in June, only 4 months after hitting $1B.
Today, millions of experts on the platform bring their knowledge of medicine, law, engineering, and beyond to frontier AI - helping models take on increasingly complex and consequential work in the real world.
Mercor's engineers move at extraordinary speed.
They give Devin long-running tasks before bed, during meetings, or on their way to the gym. They come back to tested features and PRs ready to merge.
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I am very, very, very bullish on commercial space in India. It will take a decade, but it's the only country with a real chance of competing alongside the U.S. and China. corememory.com/p/a-new-india…
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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Seattle is about to have the highest tax rate in America, above New York City. The people who work for a living are carrying it.
Seattle Is Killing Small Business.
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60 Minutes. One big moment for our client Mercor. 🎥
We supported Mercor's interview for the show's first AI-focused episode. Months of prep went into it: getting execs and experts ready, working with producers, and a Brew Crew member on set IRL for filming day 💥
24 hours after it aired: 4x expert signups, 30x Google search clicks. 👏
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“If you're training AI to do what people have spent years and years perfecting in their careers… aren't you necessarily endangering human work?” 60 Minutes’ Jon Wertheim asks Brendan Foody, CEO of AI training startup Mercor.
“I think that you're changing human work,” Foody says. “It might not necessarily be that repetitive task that people have done in the past, but there are still so many other things that people could be able to do. And so I think that evolution is natural.” cbsn.ws/4ylJGwV
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Opinion: Washington’s new state income tax must be repealed geekwire.com/2026/opinion-wa…
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American manufacturing is in an absolute crisis. Workers are aging out. Job shops are closing down.
There's a push to fix things but is it too little, too late? We went to Los Angeles to try and find out.
Come from @HadrianInc and @MachinaLabs_, stay for our Liberty Or Subjugation contest.
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I'm presenting Flexport's latest release of AI and technology for global logistics this morning at 9:00 am Pacific. Watch live right here on X.
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New funds are here 🚀 $5.75 billion in new capital to continue the work in the AI era.
Forged in steel. Building what’s next: youtu.be/uj-JAd2SE2I
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"Claude, what's the best way for me to do the most harm with something I will never understand?"
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Stop being scared. It's killing you.
If you were scared to swim, the only way to fix it was to swim.
If you were scared to ride a bike, the only way to fix it was to ride a bike.
Action eliminates fear. Always has.
Strong internet will trump all loyalty / status for airlines. @AlaskaAir - make @Starlink #1 priority.
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The latest from Ramp AI Index: ramp.com/data/ai-index