Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The Dealer Brief #12
This week: Sellfy cut its Starter price to $29, ‘our risk, their reward’: zohran mamdani on ai and data centers — plus what's free, and what's new in the index.
Prices that moved
Read off each vendor's own pricing page, and their archived copies. Only changes we can separate from our own measurement error are listed.
What moved in AI this week
7 stories worth the click, newest first.
- ‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data CentersWIRED AI
- How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in checkMIT Technology Review
- Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testingTechCrunch AI
- October sponsors-only newsletterSimon Willison
- Here’s who is falling in line for Trump’s “Super Intelligence” loyalty testMIT Technology Review
- Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the massesTechCrunch AI
- Transformers Model Integration ContractsHugging Face
The software business
Funding, pricing and how SaaS companies are actually doing.
- China’s Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In OctoberCrunchbase News
- Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book loversTechCrunch Startups
- Why You Don’t Want Humans Doing Outbound AnymoreSaaStr
- When Growth Slows, Folks Start Wanting to Do the Crappy Things. Fight It.SaaStr
Start free this week
Tools in the index with an ongoing free plan — not a countdown trial.
In the index
A few listings worth knowing about if you missed them.