Edition of Saturday, October 17, 2026

Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll get a cold plunge, a blood panel and a protein muffin without needing a trust fund.

Meta Ships Muse Wonder, Jev Raises $870M 24 Days After Launch, and Anthropic Cuts Haiku 90%: The Top Takeaways From This Week’s 20VC x SaaStr

Pro rata goes to Delaware, Nvidia circles Reflection, a record 42 decacorns, and why the B2B apocalypse never ended for anyone under $1B in ARR A nuclear startup took its earliest institutional backer to court over a spring-back clause. Meta put its first…

Going Headless: Claudeforce vs. Replit vs. Lovable, Agents Picking Our Vendors, and Two of Our Agents Built Their Own Inbox to Talk Behind Our Back: The Agents #016

Amelia and I just published Episode #016 of The Agents. Same setup as always: three humans, 21+ agents in production, and a B2B + AI business on track for about $20M this year. This week we went deep on truly going “headless” and agent-first with your CRM…

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

The 'blurry' world of defence tech revenue

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Spending Contracts For Latest AI-Driven Startup Batch

Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.