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This week in tech brought chaos and ambition in equal measure. OpenAI wants to be your AI health coach, Scribe turned workflows into gold with a $75M raise, and Tesla launched a $60-a-day rental program with free perks. 1Mind raised $30M for AI “superhuman” sales agents, Anthropic expanded to Europe, and Blue Origin’s rocket dreams got stalled by cruise ships. Meanwhile, spyware is targeting activists, and startups are finding creative ways to stay competitive amid big tech’s salary wars.
Video pick: This Guy HACKED Wall Street and Walked Free
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Eight bullets of updates
💰 1Mind, a sales-focused AI startup founded by Amanda Kahlow (former CEO of 6Sense), raised $30 million in Series A funding.
🚙 Tesla has introduced a new rental program allowing customers to drive its vehicles for three to seven days starting at $60 per day.
🏆 Startups can stay competitive despite big tech salaries by focusing on fair, generous equity and flexible compensation strategies that evolve as they grow.
🕵️♂️ Spyware once aimed at criminals now targets activists and consultants in over 45 countries, blurring lines on surveillance use.
🌍 Anthropic is expanding in Europe with plans to open two new offices in Paris and Munich and add over 150 hires.
🚀 Blue Origin pauses its first commercial New Glenn launch after weather and cruise ship traffic disrupted attempts to prove rocket reusability.
🛰️ Apple is gearing up for ambitious new satellite-powered iPhone features beyond SOS, as satellite tech expands.
🏠 Homemove taps into 250K+ property listings to merge AI moving tools with trusted market data after acquiring Home.co.uk.
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Scribe’s $75M glow-up: turning everyday workflows into AI gold
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Workflow documentation startup Scribe has raised $75 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to launch Scribe Optimize, a new platform that helps enterprises identify where automation and AI can have the biggest impact. The round, led by StepStone with participation from Amplify Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Tiger Global, Morado Ventures, and New York Life Ventures, follows a $25 million Series B last year.
Founded in 2019 by Jennifer Smith and Aaron Podoln, the startup gained traction with Scribe Capture, a tool that automatically records workflows and creates step-by-step guides, saving users up to 42 hours per month and improving onboarding by 40%. Now used by over 5 million people across 78,000 organizations and 94% of Fortune 500 companies, Scribe has doubled its revenue in the past year and plans to expand its 120-person team globally as it rolls out Scribe Optimize.
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This Guy HACKED Wall Street and Walked Free
In 2018, a single click on a compromised file gave Russian hackers a window into Wall Street—and they used it to steal $100 million. This is the wild true story of how a PowerShell backdoor on a filing agent’s laptop gave a Russian cybercrime ring early access to earnings reports from companies like Roku and Skechers—allowing them to trade on insider info for years without getting caught. Until one of them went skiing.
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OpenAI wants to be your doctor now — or at least your AI health coach
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OpenAI is exploring consumer health tools, including a generative AI-powered personal health assistant, as part of a push to expand beyond its core AI products, Business Insider reports. The move follows key healthcare-focused hires — Nate Gross, cofounder of Doximity, as head of healthcare strategy, and Ashley Alexander, former Instagram executive, as VP of health products.
The initiative comes as tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have previously struggled with similar health ventures. At the HLTH 2025 conference, Gross noted that ChatGPT now has about 800 million weekly users, many of whom already seek medical guidance through the platform.
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Shoppers are adding to cart for the holidays
Over the next year, Roku predicts that 100% of the streaming audience will see ads. For growth marketers in 2026, CTV will remain an important “safe space” as AI creates widespread disruption in the search and social channels. Plus, easier access to self-serve CTV ad buying tools and targeting options will lead to a surge in locally-targeted streaming campaigns.
Read our guide to find out why growth marketers should make sure CTV is part of their 2026 media mix.
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