THE DAILY BRIEFING · Sunday, November 15, 2026
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Industry news
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Industry news
Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.
Analysis & opinion
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a11 datasette-llm is the intermediate plugin for Datasette that supports configuring LLMs for use with other Datasette plugins. This release adds support for OpenAI-compatible endpoints, so you can configure Datasette to use an LLM hosted anywhere that talks the OpenAI pseudo-standard web protocol. This means that if you're running…
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a16z Andreessen Horowitz
AI Will Make Pharma Even Bigger
Via a16z News · · 2 days before edition
Sequoia Capital
AI agents will ask far more questions of a company's data than people ever did. Edelbyte is building the data platform that can answer all of them, fast and at a price that makes sense.
Via Sequoia Capital Stories · · 5 days before edition
MODEL ECONOMICS
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Earlier commentary (3)
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a16z Andreessen Horowitz
Gaming’s Next Origin Stories
What AI makes possible for indie developers, toolmakers, and studios
Via a16z News · · 3 days before edition
Sequoia Capital
Cresta: From Stanford Research to AI at Work
Congratulations to the Cresta team on joining Salesforce.
Via Sequoia Capital Stories · · 13 days before edition
Gavin Baker Atreides Management
Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters - [Invest Like the Best, EP.485]
My guest today is Gavin Baker, founding partner and CIO of Atreides Management. This is our seventh conversation, and just two months after Gavin's last appearance. It's about the gap between what the market is doing and what companies are seeing. It's been a tough month or so for public AI names, but there's no sign of a slowdown on the ground in Silicon…
Via Invest Like the Best · · 103 days before edition