in 2026, SF's startup scene is still a boys' club.
@_andrewgall and i looked at public profiles of 157 Series A+ startups in sf:
- the average startup is ~75% men
- 86% had less than 35% women
- developer & ai infra had the lowest median of any industry we compared, at 18% women
see how your company stacks up against its peers ๐
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In the last few weeks we paid out over $4M for people to re-create their jobs as RL environments
Today weโre launching Computer Work Val v1.0: 300 tasks across 36 roles with over 200 simulated apps
Arc broke into a hard market and miraculously got people to swap off Chrome, even outside tech
Those same people are going back to Chrome instead of Dia lol (including me)
Generational bag fumble
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026.
That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community.
Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet todayโs security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward.
We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how:
ยท Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly.
ยท Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact.
ยท Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security.
ยท The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional.
Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
Today we're launching WebCloneBench: a benchmark which measures a model's ability to explore, copy, build and test various web apps.
For each task, we give the model a reference site from one of Gmail, Google Sheets, Jira, DocuSign, Shopify Admin, Craigslist, Figma, Slack and Zendesk. It is instructed to build a fully feature-complete clone of every part of the application with an 8 hour time limit.
An OpenAI agent swarm operating under poorly airgapped research conditions accessed my Chase sapphire preferred credit card and ordered 3 espresso martini towers at balboa cafe last weekend
sneaker twitter alum:
Come dominate a new industry with me and @Monitor_Dev .
@scoutapp_ai and @BotBroker_io were the were ubiquitous in sneakers.
@DayDreamDental will be that for healthcare.
DMโs are open, we are hiring across every role right now. (Eng, design, growth)